The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-02-21

the North. About ten per cent Of the
native Cubans, white and black, are
politicians. ~agitators and gentlemen of
leisure. They walk around and live
upon the Ignorance and superstition
q the natives. The great mass of the
Cubans, white, black, brown and vel
low, are ignorant, and not engaged in
any business of their own. The vol
ume of business done in the island by
"ubans is indeed small. It was not
cur pleasure to find a sing e black
Cuban in business anywhere. Those
that are intelligent enough, think Of
nothing else but war and politics.
Prejudice.
Prejudice in the island is intense.
Every man whose hair is straight, it
matters not whether he is black,
white, red or brown, is a white man,
and feels insulted if you intimate, or
"A any way l|nsinuate that he is a
Negro.
The mar on the island who has in
terest enough to stand up for his race
PRIDE and admits that ne is a Negro
IS inQed lonesome and socially, ,ostra-
cised. Cuba is no place for, the Ameri-
can unless he is a capitalist or is able
TO get upon his feet on Cuban soil.
The Americans own all the railroads,
manufactures, industries and lines of
transportation, communications and
public utilities, the Spaniards are the
merchants and control most of the
land and sugar-cane industries, but
the land is fast passing into the
hands Oh the American capitalist. The
Cubans, and when we say Cubans, we
white and black, are intensively
hated by the Spaniards. The hatred
of the Spaniards for the Cubans is
more intense than the American
white mans prejudice against the
Negro. So with the American preju-
dice against the Negro, and the Span
iard's prejudice against the Cuban,
the American black man has but lit
tie show in this tropical country.
s;,-t Government.
AS stated above, the government
of Cubayis corrupts and is only paral-
leled in the history of American po-
litical economy by the "~carpet4bag''
rule In South Carolina, Louisiana and
other Southern States Immediately
following the war, when the unscrup-
ulous white men from the North
covered the South, and taking adj
vantage of the numbers of ignorant
and superstitious Negroes who had
suddenly had the ballot thrust upon
them, completely devastated the re-
sources of the South and planted the
seed of the prejudice that exists be-
tween the races to-day.
The Cuban government is a great
gambler, operating a Lottery that af-
fords the people three drawings a
month, the people paying in about
ment's gambling house. The govern
ment has a take-out of 80 per cent of
the gross receipts of the gambling
rooms, which nets the government
about $6,480.00 per annum, the win
ners receiving nearly $1,000, 900 a
y cal lIOuoduuD VI llCll dnu WOulCl
do nothing else but play the lottery.
You see men, women and children of
all ages in the streets of Havana
every day peddling lottery tickets.
Each ticket is sold for 500. The
gambling brokers generally buy up
all the tickets from the government,
and sell them to the people at arbi-
trary prices. Gambling seems to be
the greatest and most popular indus
try in the country. Daily you see
in the barrooms in Cuba, and there
are thousands of them, men, women
and children sitting around tables
drinking beer and playing Spanish
dominoes, half naked and half clad.
The natives, as a rule, present a bar
barous appearance, yet you see but lit
tie drunkenness. You hardly ever see
a person who appears to be, by action
OF conduct, under the influence Of In
t%oXicants.
Vice.
We were informed that the Cuban
government. the general government,
the national government, licenses the
women who live in the segregated
districts; that they are legally author
lied by the government to sell them
selves into the basest immortality,
and a trip through the red light dis
trict, where you see hundred of of
ficers patrolling the beat, very soon
%impresses you of the ~brazenness and
holiness with which the men and
women apply themselves in the pres
ence of the officers of the law. It is
astounding, and carries with it the
weight of the sanction of the law.
Religion.
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