Show WHAT IS THE PROMISED FUTURE OF CUBA ahall IT BE separation UNDEFILED AND indivisible OB an AUTONOMY UNDER A QUASI protectorate olt OB annexations SPANISH COLONIAL government TIIE CHAOS THAT WILL ENSUE UPON CUBAN AUTONOMY dy OR OK IN to at aan appreciable under rt standing anding of 0 the conditions which hove havo loper De rated a led PLO 0 o potentially in bringing bout I 1 h b a present insurrection in cuba t thoi he fifth in importance in its history and the intimate relations th the united tates states bee beara to it begotten of 0 pros proximity and commercial interests would lie be difficult and unsatisfactory without ut a prefatory resume of cc spanish colonial government misgovern ral meriL originally the island of cuba was wai utilized ss as a kind of inter inte intermediary r Y bup j ply depot for spanish Spa illah expeditions to mexico grants ot of land were donated to actual stItt settlers lers on the express bondt condition th that at tho the holders should have con it antly on timid band a certain number ot of cattle for the free aoe lit and benefit ot of these expeditions the deeds of some ot of these grants are still referred to in the abstracts of 0 titles the sugar cane find tobacco wore indigenous but it was avas nearly one hundred and aad fifty years after the colonization of 0 the island before tile coffee berry was introduced front from santo domingo As the cultivation c u lilva of oc tile sugar cane was conal confined red to small areas and tho the demand 0 o greatly exceeded tho the supply hk h process ot of refining ning lie BO crude slow alow and expensive and the means 0 of transportation por tation so uncertain dangerous and tle U that sugar fugar became a louice ot of nor normous n OUR and constantly expand expanding Inar 0 I 1 1 I ill coffee estates were ere sloughed ploughed hed i UP to give place to tho the extension 0 of the bigar rane cane the commercial in m of f the catalan aroused tile tho gold to mexico raw paw speedier and moro substantial routes to wealth lh in ili till of sugar tobacco and i lit iff than in the ilia unsubstantial dramm dr dri amm ama of cf aztec wealth soon the cities of santiago anti aio and havana grew tilte liTi hilt comino iclal cell centers N valle bile the island inland itself into tume fume 11 source of immediate and onta nt 11 1 health to tho govern incie 0 I 1 of ft spain us am well us as tho the happy ground of tilt the peninsular om mil berler from time ll 11 hiu ha been leaning upon spain a tied and impecunious hord of t ilk a awl and nohe nobles and pretenders V vh it claims and necessities annot amnot r im 11 I 1 a bently 0 or r prudently he be ignored Ip nored but atio lio must be ned and suii up ported and to 10 these are partitioned the patronage of cuba who in their turn i oll ell their holdi rigi to their fol follower lomers pr or to in the L bidder iho in liln bilm him has ins to f ly by brae lie bhelt perlone por lone has perfected alit binl method odi to hillh lins lini lin i int nil hit ill nf if propriety tile til rv till 1 that ahalt tin iho importer Imp and exporter the shipper hipper arid and con ignee tile loncar planter the tob ako 0 o raiser and tita th small la ill ih doctor aid the lawyer aro are forced JIAM ii a compact coro pact to in aid irk in cheoun che aUn bobbing lobbing lobbin ff and gilfe rinar every of tho the insular govern government ment to T moet every contingency confronting them ships are arc obliged to carry two manifests a straight clit and a cro cr olied hed one tho the former to he be utilized lit in case M hie officials had bad been seized with it momentary spa wi of 0 virtue browin X out of some come fleeting aberration of mind on I 1 fin it part of bome customs at I 1 havana tho the lat lattur to be used when hei n file government returned to its normal norma t condition in the crooked artict art loles on of luxury which commanded high prices and paid mid high duties were for their opposites op an a for example hems haag for send hand fr wheat flour ond and ailia acting under tinder the hypodermic po influence of x master minel mind a 1 chip hi T loaded alth tilt opium silks rating and n fancy o etc etc has haf been injected into the port rt in ballant ballaH bal lAyt tt they have IL a vay uny of collecting gov ram rement nt ta taxes iea chich la its no less irsa unique and 1 hilarious I PlIn rious spanish law aldays I 1 ir rl cardi ailt the accused As aa dulity tho bursen bof of proof resting upon him and not upon the state stat e the revenue applied this convenient c ve rilent rule rul e to the taxpayer in milking i ng up for grol ing out of any failure on oil tho the part nt of the th collector to turn in the full amount of his collections which probably never happened in the th history of ahe to illustrate taxes vary according to occupation or industry those there on sugar suar estates are assessed upon the gross amount of hogsheads hog or bagi produced the estimate holoff ahping based ha ed upon some exceptionally productive boax no allowance being made for short crops or the lo nering of flora aiom foreign competition the T vol rollf letor tor presents and his ask i nt lit ii 1 paid gives elves his receipt and departs after a time another an oilier enines rm the that collector no I 1 nas a villain and a traitor to tile state in that lie ho failed to turn tarn over about tit of the amount collected coll acted and alint li athe the owner must malte up the di li i loncy lency there in no use in protest no vitality in the receipt already chiv alvn n and collector no 9 2 has hag no power of r or pardon so tho the deficiency Is duly paid and it if in the ful riest mst of time no third collector appears th n llevad owner calls his friends and fR arrill rill together cellier lo and they all loin join in psalms and thanking god they fire are rid of a knave spain has hai ha i always been faithful in producing statesmen who in their om ceat capacity spaniards are horio honorable rable and upright in their vers persona onal 1 dealings have art an original and effective any ay 0 of so to speak men money out of mh filler r peoples pockets into their own one of theme chew plans that excited my nd ad was the invention of some ancient aud and long departed At inister of ril lancO who to catoe balse a given built of money from fines on vessels for 1 fo lations involuntary and it rid inevitable 0 of f their complex mid and Q evolved customs regulations these rule laus lans mandates tl ilc rett and instructions AI are arc the compound allons of f centuries ot of exit exp a aa 1 violators I of over every p form or ciul cut mark vai k or defnie against tin thy are arc c ted on such euch a coni cell and basis that elry can empoe lines whenever the exigencies of the exchequer demand 1 it despite every precaution the i r tile master of ft the ship and tho the consignee can take lake and it if by any overt leht eight or inadvertence of the customs custom s official the regulations tall fall in application the rho cu customs ot of the port come lit in I 1 o make up for or their ne gilgen co I 1 have t cave known knon vessels to in be lined fined anywhere from 1000 to rot not because fit cf any amy discrepancies be between tween the manifest invoices and cargo or adv charge charce that bat there were but because in one in fiance the clerk or mate of the chip and mato mates of vessels aro not utu mutually ally rioted noted for their capacity as expert accountants coun tants had omitted to write out in full ull tho the numbers contenting themselves by expressing express ig thom them numerically in still other instances where they hod had written ritten A out the numbers but failed to denote the numerals and finally in others because they had both written out in full and expressed the hie numbers so DO the he ships vere mere damned it if they did and drion damned dit it they while the writer was consul at ala ma t aczas tintas lie evolved a way to meet these demands which was quito quite uj as unique and aboriginal as their own when tile the vessels were lined he used to put them under bonds anil and then it matter whether he had to fight tile the tines fines IL month or a year vear or a century the ves set was clear and be held up for or those inns fines anyway it la Is a source of to say that in all the th yeara lie iwas there not net it a dollar of fines I 1 beio eia ner eer er from an aa airier lean phlp chip sufficient liaa has already been awn rk for ih ot of tit tho Tri buil to see that abal tha th of 0 tho the li lind rif of cuba cui is bul guiti h a pyrotechnic duplay of 0 spanish statesmanship that any rt at tempt to lo decorate it it would othild be ns i fruitless I 1 ash As aa to paint tho the city and yet the spaniard pan tard in his personal 1 itt ito kind open openhearted hearted and c hl al it is only tn in his official aft that N we 0 complain of him ond and even ark t in ili that t he means well ile ho to Is built very much on tile the same general plan as a populist platform bubbling over with good frood intentions Intent long in in tile government of their people they hey I 1 have one rule of conduct which a all I 1 1 accept as an act of inheritance and which they express in ili their ver vernacular macu go as pan y palos which being liberally 11 translated means mean to govern by giving broad bread employment service etc v it h one hand band and governing by pounding them over the hea head I I 1 with a club hold held in tile the other so by A i of mental delusions they thay really think they govern wisely and kindly and that their subjects should girt gia bounly submit to any and sit all exactions when given U under rider the shibboleth 0 ot it gota with savins that a penpit always ways bling bi I 1 ng u pou apoll them th em tile tho kind of government beat suited bulled to their conditions and genius gerlit and its as tile the peas peasant tilt spaniard pan lard understands understand no force no BO well as brute fore force 0 freedom and of government are mistaken for weakness and tear fear a and conciliation for cou cowardice ardice added to few this li 14 that national spirit which finds call cause se of quarrel in a straw when the honor of tho the nation li im at stake SPANISH quarrelsome Noine conten timis ani and sic ng gres sive op oil all mailers mattera affecting the personal Inte interests rePts d on oil moll a an questions 0 national Pol polac llos lea paid ota by natuis and by instinct united by the ilie cohesive power of a common laiu lali runge and FL a kind hind of character characteristic itic socialism it only ie quires some foreign like a war with alth some outside power to jar thom into temporary organic alon when the spaniard icheln it in iff nver never because tit ali government has been apen unusually brutal or tYlan tyrannical or to lo better his own ovin condition but 1 calof of homo fanciful cause in III which hach b his 3 country 14 1 lit in some mysterious anay inbur injured e d or it red the injury or dishonor can com come 0 in auch biln a L form forill as aa to be a blessing n and a material gain an ai the joss of cuba for illustration by a purchase so eo gen crous and munificent As aa to enioch the whole hole country and still bring about a revolution if the pui pul chase eliase lias has about it tho the air of force or compulsion pos sensing these peculiarities of temperament it Is a natural for film to complacently accept any imposition ot or hla his government with instinctive aunill humility and to resent any opposition coming from froin lily source e nut directly aa with sovereignty brought broucht up air in lm oranee and church rather than religious reHer tous bigotry bl trained traffic it to look upon hll all monarchist forms of government with superstitious reverence mistaking license for liberty fanaticism for freedom lie ho has haa no ito more conception ot of what an autonomous form ut government means than a pluto has of the SPANISH AUTONOMY Ther eforo any tentative offers of autonomy about to be proffered by the So segasta gasta cabinet have no in canIng or In Inteli tendril ded lu ill gitig effect other than llian lh the hope to further rr tile con tensions tent ions and elements flemen ls now contending for I allican supremacy bet between tho cuban junta n in new w tork r ILI and their more manly and egg relative brethren fachting in cubit cuba and thus bring too to n ifa very ron editions which would inevitably prevail in bahe colonial autonomy were accented accepted As abbie elated the bli statesmen nr nor the th hits haa any intelligent conception concept lon ri of nf what nhat local loutit control of local means tn in the Arnel laTi of the abold woi what they meon mean now is preel precisely sely vi lint chev meant and offered under campos at al nineteen vears years ago affo it ilni simply means a cessation cem smilon of hostilities until snafu can organize more measures either by force of firms or bribery or OP a combination of both to connyer peace sagasta Si Rasta may sidle up to them in on an italian sort of way of the presence of a stiletto up tip hla his sleeve hallo bile blanco may conic to cuba offering gifts but between them and the th lato late Can canovas civas LIM del castillo and weyler tho difference is only one of method the one coples to accomplish its his ends by bribery and secret assa wliam I 1 the other attempted by war ar kind open murder AUTONOMY UNDER AT T AUSPICES that spain la Is really sc itous or honest ion in her offers for colonial reforms foring rc no ono one knoN knowing vIng her political blainey really believes and that he would voluntarily grant colonial self government with the united states as surety aou would 1 I not be agreed to by spain and it is extremely doubtful it if it would be accepted even for prudence sake I 1 by the cubans the cubans know now that for certain political reasons not set apparent to the average american voter the senate will try to force the united unite d states to violently intervene and all they have to do Is to hold off bid in the tha mountain fastnesses fat fast nessen nesses of central cuba an and d beave ave their cause to the five new york and key wit ast corre once arl driven ren lut L ut the cubans would nt at once assert tilt ir right to administer the iho affairs of oc tins the island if denied then vie ve would have the same game trouble that spain has if left to themselves selves ic after revolution would be tho only certainties in politics until the Is island and would become becomes a he hol I 1 lug luff i aisle as le and wilde wilderness to come at last ill under 11 der the sway of the african precisely a ai haiti and santo Donil ngo ere are today in tile the meantime the con for temporary supremacy kofl r tit lh inland first to ne inc european awer an cr then to the other never to tc the united there la Is an all enmity in the bosom of evely the lh united slates growing crowl ner out of the cark war and adiong them all noia nowhere here does doca it burn no he reLly as in tho the of tile the cuban dependent upon the united states slates for everything she pho for the th money they expend tho the clothed dufala they vear acar tho the protection they receive the llie bogus papers which eatable them to commit treason ri A friendly government they show how their gratitude bv fleeing to our cities where they make tile the streets eano pan and iland to le echo to their strident veils of cuba libre and their by slandering our we women ridiculing our customs custom a and I 1 bile pleading plead lne cpr help heig they are arc plott plotting ng against any action 0 ur government iray tako take m hiell liaa a bout it the suspicion of mency thus depriving them m of the iho glory tind ind the ahe nal benefit of collecting its revenues and administering its government coic I 1 annexation paradoxical as aa it may appear the an are confined to the 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