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Things Their Own Way Army

Officers Indlgrnntnt Because Ha

vana Police Force Has Been Crit

icised as Inefficient.

HAVANA, Aug. 6.— leading Havana

merchant, a Cuban having business con

nections with most of the cities of the

island, and who claims to be well posted

regarding- Cuban affairs, said today that

universal suffrage in Cuba would mean

a black republic in the near future, and

that the only means of preventing it

would be the incorporation of the island

as a possession of the United States, as a

state, territory or colony, leading to

American immigration, intermarriages,

the enrichment of insular blood and the

improvement of the population. In hia

judgment Cuba is otherwise doomed to

become another Haiti.

His assertions are based upon the fact

that in a population not exceeding 1,200,

--000, with a voting capacity of 400,000, tha

Spaniards number only 50,000, the white

Cubans 125,000, those claiming to ba

white 25,000, while the blacks number

200,000 in voting strength. His theory ia

that more than half the Spaniards, under

a system of universal suffrage, would

not vote, and that the number wVi

would vote must inevitably diminish each

year. The Cubans, who will no longer

have the fresh blood of Spanish immi

grants to draw upon, will gradually grow

fewer, while, on the other hand, the

blacks, who thrive in this climate, and

who are big, strong and healthy, will In

crease at a rapid rate. The result will

be, he believes, that in fifty years there

will be more than 2,000,000 negroes

in the island, and less than 250,000 others.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Saint Paul globe. (1899). St. Paul, Minn., 1899-08-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90059523/1899-08-07/ed-1/?sp=4

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Saint Paul globe, 1899-08-07.