THL 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1910, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume VIII 



MAY, 1910 



Number 6 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CiBRAR 

 SEW YOl 

 BOTANIC 



QARDEP 



NO NEGRO CONSPIRACY AND THOSE ARRESTED RELEASED — PRESIDENT 

 MAKES MORE CABINET CHANGES — LABOR TROUBLES — ARMS 

 FOR THE CUBAN ARMY 



The agitation over the 



No race question is believed to 



Negro have been due largely to the 



Uprising exaggerated reports of the 



speeches of General Eva- 



risto Estenoz and other colored orators 



during the recent campaign in the eastern 



provinces in the interest of the Independent 



Party of Color. 



General Estenoz has declared in a pub- 

 Hshed interview that the stories of negro 

 outbreaks were simply a government ruse 

 to justify a show of military strength de- 

 signed to awe the negroes and prevent them 

 from completing their organization. He 

 said the negro party numbered 93,000 and 

 was determined to secure proper recogni- 

 tion in the distribution of offices. The gen- 

 eral is the leader of the negro opposition 

 to the administration in Cuba. La Lucha 

 on April 19th charged the responsibility for 

 the agitation among the negroes to the gov- 

 ernment which had made ante-election 

 promises impossible of fulfillment. La Dis- 

 cussion, editorially on April 23d, invited the 

 negroes to ally themselves with the con- 

 servatives, who — it declared — would not 

 raise false hopes by insincere and impos- 

 sible promises. 



General Estenoz informed U. S. Minis- 

 ter Jackson on April 23d that he had no 

 desire to stir up race feeling and overturn 

 the government, but merely wished to pro- 

 ceed legally with the organization of the 

 colored party. Minister Jackson had pre- 

 viously telegraphed Washington that the 

 Cuban government had assured him that no 

 disorders were expected. 



On April 25th indictments on the charge 

 of "conspiracy to commit the crime of re- 



Pesca Abundante 



LiBORio — De algo le habia de servir al General ser 



biien pescador: ha tirado el gran TARRAYAZO. 



— La Politica Comica. 



The cartoonist takes advantage of President 

 Gomez's well-known fondness for fishing to illus- 

 trate his last great catch — not of fish, but of 

 negroes. See article on this page. 



bellion" were returned against the General 

 and 87 other negroes arrested by the police. 

 On the same day General Freyre Andrade, 

 who was Secretary of the Interior under 

 the Palma administration, accepted a re- 

 tainer from General Estenoz and the others 

 indicted conditional upon the defendants' 

 ability to satisfy him that they were not 

 affiliated with any movement looking to a 

 race conflict. He was satisfied, he said, 

 there was not the slightest evidence of a 

 conspiracy and there was no rebellious in- 

 tent. On May 4th the government weak- 

 ened in its prosecutions and released fifty- 

 nine of the imprisoned negroes and later 

 released all but seven, evidently satisfied 

 that a real conspiracy did not exist. As a 

 matter of fact, despite all the talk of race 



