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Show . f . t PI8COI3TKNTEP CUDANB. ' VrospecU Are ttni liMtlil for III.' ' ratur of Tnf. Cfuinlrr. i L An army friend of mine Just home It from Cuba, write n correspondent,! I says that Americana nro not very pop- I ular at present with the natives, who Mjf .resent their presence and cbafo nt having hav-ing to obey the laws enforced by tho Americans in fact, ho had frequently frequent-ly of late heard Cubans state In club and cafe that If they had to choose between the two races, the American or the Spanish, na to which should exercise ex-ercise control over their destinies, they would unhesitatingly chooso tho rule of Spain. The Cubans, In spile of all that ha occurred, look upon Spain n the mother country; they tpeak the same language, and being of tbo Mime blood, think that their characters, nlm and nmhltlmi are therefore better understood un-derstood by the Spaniard than by the Americans. Among other thlnga that hare ttnded to make our control unpopular un-popular In (he laland my friend thought a large part waa duo to certain cer-tain order that had been promulgated by those In authority. Stopping bull fighting greatly angered the Cuban. Dtit It waa another order that moat Influenced In-fluenced them. It teem It la the custom cus-tom thcrer for the men to go about ctsd In elbow sleeved undershirts of tha xnutllest description Considering thi Indecent, thone In authority In certain provinces decreet! that all males must wear n shirt. If ever a illly order was put forth that wna It. The natives are now look-In; eagerly forward to tho tlmo when wo shall depart and leave them to their own devices. My frlvnd doee not consider the Cubans na being capable, of self-government or of anything any-thing npproarhlng It. and looks for all aorta of trouble to follow after they start In to govern themselves. Do I saya that all tho matcrlaltfor a scrap I exist there, nnd once our' restraining I hand I removed, all orta of compll- -'",- ' cations will bo likely to ensue. Immigrants Immi-grants will not go to Cuba so Ions as such uncertainty its to Ita future exists, ex-ists, nml even lould you rrmovo that uncertainty ho thinks Hint the future outlook for many reasons would be by no mean clear. |