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Show AMERICANS IN CUBA. Mr. Walter Wigdil, writing in The Independent, explains tho rovolt in Cuba as the rising of the negroes as a race against the wrongs Inflicted against them b-3r the Gomez government. govern-ment. Tho special inlcrost to Americans in his article however, is his exposition of the evident ill will of Gome, aud his government towards Americana. The corruption of President Gomez, and his administration is fully dwelt upon and the injustice of tho legislation legisla-tion known as tho "port bill" relating to Havana, which it is expected will result in burdens upon commerce amounting to $3b000,000 yearly, by reason of tho extortions, grafts and general gen-eral rascalities of the Gomez administration, administra-tion, all arc fully set forth. The writer says: "Tho Americans and moat of the foreigners lean toward annexation "to the United States! because thoy have been held up and sand-bagged so ofton under Gomez, that they would rathor take a chance under another fiasco fi-asco similar to the second intervention, than under Gomez, or some ono else cqualby bad." This coldness toward Americans was manifested officially in the most discourteous dis-courteous form when Secretary Knox visited Cuba, on his recent "swing around the circle" of tho Central American countries, and to Venezuela, Ha3rti and Cuba. A writer who accompanied accom-panied Secretary Knox on that trip gives in tho World's Work an account of the non-reception of Secretary Knox in Havana, iu the following words: Mr. William Bayurd Hale, who accompanied accom-panied Secretary Knox's party to Central America, ay.s that the only cold reception recep-tion the envoy received was at Havana. This was the more noticeable because tho welcomes extended in El-Salvador and Vcnezuola and Santo Domingo, tho places most recently visited before the landing In Cuba, had been so lavishly embroidered embroid-ered with Latin politenesses. At Havana, Ha-vana, however, the American minister, the mayor and the chief of police, and a sub-orflclal of tho Cuban atato department depart-ment came aboard, but not a member of the cabinet. When we landed at the Cabalitrla whurf. there was no band, no Boldlcry, not even police, not a committee commit-tee or a single member of a committea not a. soul. Wo scrambled Into automobiles, automo-biles, while curious longshoremen, Idlers, and a fow photographers, looked on. Then we went to tho hotel which had been set aside for us through a couple of miles of stroota, Including tho Prado, and not a Klnglc American Jlag waB to be seen. There appears to be no doubt of the viudictivo feeling of the Gomez government toward the Americans. The swift and omphalic protest that Gomez made to President Taft against intervention inter-vention was tho outcry of four made by a robber, who hnted to havo his robbery rob-bery disclosed to the world, and who was willing to take a chunco even on the annihilation of his own government rathor than have tho facts revealed, as they undoubtedly would havo been, through American intervention and the report of what America found iu Cuba in that intervention |