THE CUBA REVIEW 



AND BULLETIN 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



UaRDEN. 



Volume V. 



OCTOBER, 1907. 



Number ii. 



POLITICAL 



On September 25, a band 

 Disturbances of fourteen men fired on the 

 Somewhat rural guard, near Myari, in 

 Exaggerated, the northen part of Santiago 

 province. There were no 

 casualties. Later, a private dispatch from 

 Cienfuegos hinted of agitation, but that 

 was all. Reports from Camaguey said 

 there was much cattle stealing in that 

 province, which is an old story. In brief, 

 there is a not unusual unrest throughout 

 the island, but not so much as these 'dif- 

 ferent reports woyld seem to indicate. 

 Governor Magoon has partly succeeded in 

 arousing a friendly feeling among the 

 laboring classes towards the administra- 

 tion. He indirectly secured to workers in 

 many lines, the payment of wages in 

 American currency, openly advocated the 

 use of this medium all over the island, 

 and gave remunerative employment to thou- 

 sands in the dull season just preceding the 

 beginning of plantation work. It is not 

 likely, therefore, that the Cuban laborer is 

 anxious to disturb conditions which are 

 all in his favor, for under 

 Cuban La- the peaceful conditions gen- 

 horers Now erally prevailing the people 

 Prospering, are beginning to realize a 

 little prosperity. A wild 

 story which received little credence, was 

 that E. H. Harriman, J. P. ]\Iorgan, and 

 other big American financiers were behind 

 the movement to bring about another revo- 

 lution. On September 26 the government 

 arrested Masso Parra. Juan Ducasse and 

 Luis Lara Miret, accused of conspiring to 

 J«** blow up bridges and to kill Americans. 

 ^D Ducasse had friends among the Conserva- 

 2^ tives, while Miret was defended by the Mi- 

 guelistas. All three denied any connection 

 ^,„^ with the alleged conspiracy. The govern- 

 ^^ ment's principal witness was Nariega, a 

 if"^ former harbor policeman, and an active 

 C=D politician. 



It is freely predicted that the Government 

 will not be able to prove the charges against 

 ihe prisoners. The case against Ducasse is 

 considered particularly weak. No more ar- 

 rests are expected. 



Consideration of these disturbing occur- 

 rences leads the Washington Herald to 

 say that "It is not surprising that the ques- 

 tion should insistently occur whether we 

 shall ever be able to leave Cuba entirely 

 at the mercy of her own political leaders, 

 and entrust her rapidly growing interests 

 to the whims of an unstable populace." 



Gov. Magoon is praised on 

 Governor all sides, and Gen. Loinaz del 

 Magoon's Castillo, the most radical of 

 Firmness all the Cuban generals, has 

 Praised. said in a letter written to the 

 El Mundo, that Governor Ma- 

 goon is the best governor Cuba has had 

 since the time of General Las Casas who 

 ruled Cuba many years before any attempt 

 was made to throw off the Spanish yoke. 



General Gomez, the rival 

 Anti- candidate of the Liberal 

 American party for the presidency of 

 Ideas Cuba, is charged with se- 

 Charged. cretly holding anti-American 

 ideas, and a dispatch to the 

 New York World says that Governor 

 Magoon has cautioned him against_ attempt- 

 ing to further his political ambitions by 

 permitting his orators to stir up anti- 

 American feeling. 



Further disturbances may 



Census rPor^ interfere with the census 



May Be work, and as the elections 



Delayed. cannot take place until the 



work is done, further delay 



will result from the operations of these 



three irresponsible agitators who. General 



Pino Guerra says, could not rally fifty men 



to their side in all Pinar del Rio province. 



