Show I I UNCLE SAn 5 PEONS How the Poor Work and Starve In Our New West Indian bland Sovon Hundred Thousand Porto mount who Live from ttrnt to MouthThe Huinnn Caves ol SAn Junn find Their Poverty Pov-erty Strlckn Inmnuw IrollonAI l Ucflgar and the Weekly Beggar DnyA Look nl the Poor ol the Plantations How They nre Pnlil In Tin Disks Good Only nl the TouohMe Slow Tnxlno > Men for Chnlre8tnrvlllg Children Chil-dren nnd UnnnnnSlomnohod Unblm fnrrrlnhlfcl > W y Fk II Car swilter porto lllco July INifte San Juan tenths ol the ptepto of 1orto time are Intolerably poor Theft rude hut might tr d over the oounlry Are flualmolT Than on1 the rooms of Egypt the moon l hovels which form their ltMW > t hi the thickly eiwOft then lon are Moro the plums of the cities Of China All the properly of title llanll 18 owned > by a fw fmlllM out of the 600 0 1 ttncl lIam Inw subjects JWW It from hasid to mouth 8114 1 iwnliir that at at hull It million dust a part of the Year no lo food hunirrr I TUB I1KW OP Till CITIES Ixt Ml oral look > t the POINT 1 of the I CIIIM W talk Ikout hint limN but we really do not know what poverty To If our lahlnohle girls who Nil 1111figin lummlna thoolt tk a trip to Porto Illco they could nnd an nipl fl11 for Theft rml lhx shot their urtII r Tk for Instance H > n Jinn Wn have faulaillistlian l of 4W to here an morproltz po Use err and I Venture Iliore are more thin a Ihounnl Paul 1 itoilnf tonight on IliM sere where I a m wrllliw Han Juan u I utrounIM by wells and by the fount of our health Officers there om more than plitmn thouwir1 people l In Alan the w all A largo l 11ul of rise JTMO oltllMi pro boozed WM The spore inside comprisito l clarity acres but considerably more thin half of this U I taken up In streets and plum mail tile > grounds of Sierra Cull unit Dan ClirlitoUU Another Urn I limit U I do voted to plot and at her bullllr to I that the fantastic are ttowdM into a stry Santa Section TUB HUMAN CAVES OP BAN JUAN They 1Iln I a 1ln quartootowhIch are Inor like cave i > r ralarttmb thin the komM of human living The town It I inldt up of twatrr houses bout In block COM 1 lo the ilrili curb lioax bovine a hall running through the I n Ur Tin houses are of got 1I1nl Thtlr Upper jilttrlc are the homes of tilt rich anti lltndi who EO 1Ioh Hit common hall to resin them Tin upper stories hit torge I Rity 1 and nll allied apartments and I lie wIIId 11 I v Very comfortably The lowr I itnrli a am mid up of litit U dons the human of thv poor In them Are omrem oC reaums train In to tmlvt feel square many of them without with-out any light elect In trip dolor anti with no ventilation it night I it 11 through holes cut out of tin Inpl apt the door In each rnomi famlllfi ut all ten nnn anti somat twenty live Iplnll l on tile Hour or upon cut beds which are taken calfskin during tho daytime day-time In calory along the street ot Hon Juan you can look through 110 balls still you tam that very twit ends In a court at Ihi IAo ln I be bark About this tourl olyn nil moo roinn ra h of whkh u lh horn I of Porto Japan family lost of the room are small hit the people do little cooking out In the court II li I In I th court lint they with their clothes and It also retail their loung lIffilellarcowater Tin Ior comes from a common diltri which In I usually right mil In I ttic ceiupoot and use common water 1 h01 far tile nol 1When we Took ih rg of Hn Juan i our health InpKlort found t MM emu t x > to l In Hit i fly the mint of them ml I J > lnln the clilrni They I were nearly I oil full and ill filthy litany uf them had not lwii tUanJ fur years Tin inajorllr ere without cemtnlxl Task same and all w ore mnra ur Irma leaky I It was Indeed I = wonder that Iij oholt poiul lation wan not town with tyihuM tvr ami you would think that thr dIIN hl Woo r1 Ix In this rondlllon Today A treat deal of cleaning has brain 1 done treat f 1n r unlit a thorough I System nl if I water works li e > tat > ll hl ana the liouwholJr are foretell lo tout In moil ern convenience can tile poor become sanitarily safe 1 INHIDI TIII COURTS During mx star hum I I have MilIM minx of them courts and l have taken picture of that people who live In insists I Their Irimtatio Ato a clmnlx as could I tx expected In I their 0wI1 rumlltlan and roiifldrlng everything are mak I ably peaceable Few a f them hiv any furniture with the exception if loser I hal a single liable and 1 chair Th cooking U I done on Illll Iron finials l i na it with hOILI The final I I In I bolll II In ire a 0 II a0alst whlln It lima a hole In the Ixllmn for tit a Intlit and 111 li > o > mill that only one thing can lid control at a lime Hrh fnml I Ix I has a Most mot it of nil > kind As dIn d-In I main of tits courts In the menlng u dozen Illltp tiny will lid I KolilK at on onTli The people I ttlm Inhabit tin courts Room upn the work whlrh they gel In Ion I-on Juan IV w or Ilin Inol receive ono than III oil a Any nod In It or the women va ho are servants get mllh Iva I Whn tile Allsorleho first aon alany 01 ilia c hildren Ill the courts were naked lint Ilia IIlhlll Y I now ollnlln1 to the battles Till IIKOOAIIH OP HAN JUAN Th population of torn of rive consists ll larnlv mxle Ui lie Tolerance They inleiv or tilled r with Itw lease l the halt and tho 11141 lOan Ja limit moo professional bely used than n1 retain oC its 10 III tho Untied states Indeed iMwgar far teller her than they do with us Th natiltodo pne of the Maud are very IaHohl alit Modest who have money vllt olw I mite oothlnll to t home Iou have nol This li I NiKtliltx m aa to Iho blind I llllndnnu protalli t < iy largely ami II li ronildered nn anilrtlon of Trovl dence I have sren Inn borrow trioney 11 lo bpitotr It upon thn blind Allen I out l of change at Ih time they ttere ac rotfd rTom of the bllnlniia li cauud by t he pollen of be urn cane irettlni I Into th eye whllo I working nnd I am i told that Iho 11 burp on the planla I tloni nr eiperlally liable to I II I I hav < i n blind children In I all part of 1orl 11 Itloo and doubt not that It l milly t 010 ans an m hot train isaric han ClIOd and hereditary diseases In the clllel of Moro Itlii there to I I ii Ono day oC the week Ulien the Inn I ll In-n expecteit 10 go about making aim Till lima t Inure boon the cuttom and I II is I so well established thAt our Kv r ernorlieneral lid emipllonrd It lId r Atroact tin rule Tim day li Fatuldty I Ott title day every mhnnl l Unit I fluid nes man ellto call front 110 h ff liars and IUI 96 pile oC r lItIVs it 10 true h worth at 1 x tenths 01 a r nil onto on-to is cuunter or des k Th begoam como 11 I I i In one by one They can lab ono coin I and no Moro And then dopert bln the Mlnr TI IN PEONS Th Abu In 1 the condition of that poor of She Itrwni The peons out In the country fin worse The settlement nttrn of our doiiihwn mate M richer than a seat of the farm laborers of Porto lure Ills cabin la worth a dot n Toast Wean fh U fM and him monthly lease art equal 1 to the torn Inftt many of Iheae imipl fir a year ramilrant ituntes it he laboring creative loot it Ally orntavoo a day or thirty oont of fror Money This to fair Amrlan labor anl k the highest sum thai top I bm ionter Th average planter however doe not pay him man In I money lie paya them In tin dlika the pile 1 of a nickel which a ro only roml at file little plire nn tallas plantation Each of the disks ll labeled with Ml Initial II rerrnntn a cnuvo and can be apnl nowhere elie Upon pains of the plantallon I rJa II yontallno money li not paid at all The people are given HI many banana for their At a work knit their lady work learn hary r for dmit I five or six month of the year NOT 140 DHLNK AH Wll AUK Sunday In the follows market day On this day you will pe O the onuntry road lived wllh men women and children on their way lo market Herb man ear tied I a bnUle holding It by a urine tied to Ito rivals Thal usual l battle to it half llfa akhl pint and It U Letters to bring back th man supply of rum for the following week A halt pint U I not much but Thin 14 I ill ho wants although rum h he national t ilrlrtk and hv take aom very morning t wrote br akfat I or r 11 VP 14 J C al zl 1 014 141 1 1 0 A P 70 fr of 1 C I A WS 0 I al 4 r5 I 112 1 41 X v I al I A 4 Ho I at I I 1 I A IN I Xi I li 1111 of I lxdt t I 4 51 I N I C IF 14 N it I 0 I t I 1 11 11 It 1 r 2 i 6 N I j t OnO I d li1 I 1 11 1 iv I I 1r tv 16 K 11I M dis at 0 Y 3 1 a i I f I of i X 0 Ing Ire 0 I l rio V it 71 t I Bro gt i I I W r 11 I oy f It r 4 7i I iA3e vsAX 11 ffi of Z i T 11 A PEONS HOME I have been ulpI1 10 tore Pos little ilrunkeniiei her Tit chief rate of Inlntli ulhilt at I none our Distillers 1 anti I beau fn far seen ten drunken merlcan lo erY drunken Torto lllean A IOOIl MAN IIOMIL I with I could transport one of Onsive 1orlo mean hull In the United states I I would Ilk lo Mow ITMldnt MOM ley I how some of Illit lubjecli rate living on tills beautiful island The house I should chooM would be one of a coin train UlHirera ton a rich allies or oolte plantation Them ate Ihoueandi like It all over lorlo Rica net ll I how II I l < nki U lit I made of little about ai big around ai your arm and palm leave ai thick 1 tu avenue bank cover anti I lHul halt li wide aa u pan uf this lilh framework Including the rtllle moC It of pot tied lotlh Then the Mini levi are lahl on still other H > IM of about the thickness of a broomstick are lelhorllonlallracriea the tiallos of The house to keels Ih palm leaves I to either Tile novae ot Ih hut In I 01 pollim 00 blood y foot 1lher that all Ilia 41rt drops throush the crucklo rho loot to I Ali plIr mdn that ilia rh drips throuitli and al flight tile coda britelons A hititiol Through the wells The hut ban Ito ind own Its door 01 point Itenvaim can Its I 11111 away during the 1l1m II has blutl ly no Wall 10 The family idporlid l on ilia nTh n-Th cooking to I don In a nine ieanvi al tile hack upon n lire 1001 of nirth Hit pot t belnir urn upon Planes auoto tile tvide in tilts house wMch I hnvo dewrlbo1 from unload made In the hut llxlf Inert were eight thllilren three of them ants ik naked nod oDe 01 the tlirtt wa flit onto old It waa it formed and could only trawl over the floor In Its naked IIIM All I the children were exisloodloilly lean although their hI und tyta wore Kooil CANT 1IAVI OAHUBSfl Aa I looked about title hut hlctl W lonard to the local of n rich conVe follower I ootked 1 Its owner Why he did not build u gnrdeii lit replied that the planter did not allow Ilia laboterg l < l Iharra 4 mardens Cr then they could l < I I rate 1 what they wished In eat und auld nol hAY 10 filly at hto store lly Innulry I found thin un almost everywhere These people t art und tyaryte good land but They dart 1 not UM It Muny of them may ba worklntc martens the Unaliag nil day nnd ut Ilia clog 1 lint to tike the till disks they I receive In July l unit walk a mil itr ha lo the lourhmo Stores anti toy tile IIAIIATIAS which they use far their evening Inrol Tile Ptroolatme are lull nl nh 1IIIIIh y or nol Allowed 10 fish In 1 Utisn = ma tile voters fortune to their molders Thor 1111 bo oual11f they pleat Vegetables and thvy dare mil cut n lIck without that ont of the men for whom they work TAXING JIIIN roil CtlAlnrl It was for a long nine n wonder to one that There waa no lurnlturo In tht lioness I found only u few rude tad anti flow a1 hn a hammock or so In t lie hills 01 tit better class 1 II woo very rare to ore a tattle or chair I asked lint mn thY tills who 00 110 replied that Ihs r e of at chair largely I Increased its tax rate Sold IOn lie I-On t bought two chair and brought them home and for a limo any Nitta nil naroelforajout Inlc afterour I i hard InW Weak I In I a gold Then nit IAI n a c on a a nnR a n a 1 nt I I 11 m y IAI i is 0 1 On Sn 1 him h I a d 101 I To I a 1 Ju h 1111 117 11 0 whl hltidb a I I I r p lIut ho ull t I 1 v u II IV Isar nltlll now 1 to 1101 Ip IIId Iha uiii You IsIs 3 h t tr n rh inin and mul pay in rt S i Thn lill I I It I did not have trails furniture my I mild b if pan Yt Tat 11 I 11I All flmhl 1011 1 a in n lit II And I lonk Ihe two heirs and 1 liable I ullldl and mh them to osft YhTs Thla ayatem of lax it t i > prevailed through a great part of the country and today Iht peona mm Ito beginning I-to reallae thai they can buy a Mill = furniture fur-niture and not he famed fur It A notes her of the man who taste been w Is Ing on the h7F < for the government were told this by their Amfrlngn over moves They cum black again awl again to ask If It wag really I Iru lhat they could buy chain for their hnmea without with-out being Until for them They were told they could gal all the chnlra they wanted They then looked If they could haylo one for each member or the lam lly and wets delighted when the reply wan Yea HunrnimtD AT AMBIUCAN MONEY Th tomno ban nol yet gotten river the nllon 01 tocilliting liftuall money Ir their worlL They hay been Pala In this way hr the Americans od at n1 IAN it our w t a worked them at Ponsid Ovedinsly and nn the Ant coast call had Over Pern t so much i money be are They commented com-mented on the value of the American dollar which from worth more han their own dollar and today thy ore happy or t 0rrr1nl nan Imrlng this I aprlnc li T government nnVlal hav had n1 ll Wfl 5f trn Ila irtk upon the mad This was to help the pcupl Is as much aa lo help the road The appellant cart has to JV liken however lo set that the MORO actually let the money There la alfmy Thl he about the men fall py day Thla la made lip of rtoveraeer and other who pretend they hare clalma on the we coo nr the mn Sometime there la I n planter Who and makes demand for alleged debt thus trie in get a percentage of the wages sTony of the man hare never received real 1 money before and they hardly know what to do with It The government govern-ment tormenter told the men that the money waa their own and that no cant cle 1 had any right lo It nnd That they ahoutd lake It home and spend It for themselves Following the crowd also wer peddler and gambltn who hoped lo get the money of Met poorpeon aa Ion I-on no It wit paid Th government le 1 rerilallng I I ihet thing as far as BOB I P114711411 In I Imo The nl eon will be able to take ear of letters Till TOUCIIMir STORES The store on the plantations art much like the touchin itorta of our hava I coal no mining Rood dlitrlot 10 elitak I of nave TrI lock they In trade are mde up of xnh jerked beef banana and 1orlo Illoan rum Horn of trillion have brAd and some I I I ham clothing Three stores should be i liollheil and the planter hould Ix forced lo pay In vast rather than In lore orders MlhoJ should be I adopted adopt-ed by vo Well every Idion on have a Nor dn Atli be tenant li cultlvalt and ac tumults to for hlmaelf lit should be al 1 board In lime a chance for a living Hud hall Its bod I ladairt1 In his r1sitate 1 Pir ar the Bpaiilard have run everything for nit rich They have don all they ull lo keep tho polar In Ignorance and today nine out of every ten ptopU In 1orli lllio cannot retail or write Maturation should be compuleory and pchooll hold bu everywhere Tlimr IIAVK IIANANA HTOSIAIIIH 1Okln of starvation In Porto lllo ta4pvak1tPx Hilt U Ihe tin ly pon of Uml Hasnt dominion hair we call ever hAY a female The poll here lit I rich but It there Should be such weather tondltlon ao to raUM a failure of the banana crop many of the iMwr ptoplo would dim of starvation The foul of many U I made up of banana Not line mn In a dozen hat any meat lo speak of and the face of Ih people art bloodless They Ik sirnitale anti are ass A > It Is I the inortailly U I very great Tile hv a lilt itrMKlh owlnx to oaulllInl and Improper food that mien they crow Irk they Mr It ll only the prillllcne of lha pe I phe that keep up th population Th babies 1 fairly warm Ami auh bablel 1 After they have rem hod Ih I hnMn NlIII and they Net whn In I OAIII hor rho oalnn into I sell to Thy have to nil I heir lilt 111I lull In order 10 contain atiludowit III uoln lift I and their Is average child liars halt an abdomen huh pmlrulea like that 01 A brer drinking alderman It Is I as light aa n Ium and his low trak rum ant leg I beloW II HID An nr > < that they look like 1116 atonal vvilklnir arOUnd vvllli tilt great IliAd above Till 1iiov AH lunounriH The majority of Ilia panne art while alllmugh there are many I mulattoes nod not a tow necrosis They have gHnl IIi I fares and are naturally Intelllguitl I Thor are Very quiet and iwaieabln They are kind lo their famine and are nn Ih whole I good cltliiil I east Will I I by I Americans who have employ I them that they lire excellent u < > rker anti Unit they are glad lo do nil they tall 10 earn their nuwey They work Toting nuiirle 1 until Pilnael and are ai ar114 I tile as tin overall Antrylean wkrn n Home Trouble U I had as i it > the numr oafo holiday and front dull thlth l have locust customary but the most of UK nn 111 do I heir wk IrrlOelllo of II aikl > IIK iur Sunday only 1 THANK U 1 CAltlllNTHlt |