WOMAN'S EDITION THE DALLES TIMES-MOUNTAINEER
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Picturesque Hood River.
CUBA, PASTAXI) PRESENT.
When we consider that in the begin
ing of the present century Spain owned
vast tosessions on the western conti
nent, both in North and South America,
and that she has left to her now nothing
but the island of Cuba, and that in a
most miserable and pitiable condition,
it behooves us to inquire what has
brought about her losses and what has
devastated Cuba? We will get the
answer that always conies when one
country holds another in subjection.
Where the strong dominates the weak,
until life becomes a burden rather than
a blessing, revolt is inevitable. Spain
of all powers, claiming to be civilized,
must have been most incapable of gov
erning her possessions. Not only has
she been hard, tyrranical and cruel, but.
most perverse and shortsighted, and
' hrough all her losses, has not learned
one lesson in justice,toleration, or policy.
Her officers sent to govern Cuba were
armed with the prestige of the court of
Spain, aristocratic in bearing, scornful
in disposition, the people were to them
as dirt under their feet to whom they
could not even accord rights, much less
extend protection.
Little can be said of the condition of
Cuba at that time. There was not a
printing press in posessionof the people.
Their poets passed their verses, very
creditable productions, about in manu
script. The better class feeling the
need of education sent their sons to
schools and colleges in the United
States. When this fact became known
at the capital a law was passed making
it a criminal offense to educate a child
off the island of Cuba and yet no ade
quate provision was made for education
in the province.
Men who had become identified with
the interests of their adopted country
vainly endeavored to secure the atten
tion of the mother countrv upon any
subject whatever. Courtiers had been
sent out who were the only eyes and
ears of the court of Spain. However,
the princes of the world are not created
by the courts, but are natures noble
men, and to them must we look for
progress in all lines. Some of these
were sons of the soil of Cuba, who fully
realized the necessity of social expan
sion. Yet, hampered as they were on
all sides, they knew full well that the
only constant and permanent advance
in that direction must be, at that time,
entirely in the improvement of the
people. Education was fostered in
every possible way, mainly by private
schools and libraries ; as an evidence of
this Ave find in the city of Havana alone
over fifty book stores.
In the study of political economy we
find no people of the Spanish race more
laborious than the Cubans: In spite of
the drawbacks attached to immense
accumulations of property in land, to
the debasing efiects on labor due to
slavery, and notwithstanding that the
laws and system of taxation have not
been encouraging to production, but on
the contrary, the special object of which
has been to fill the royal coffers, no
matter to what extent the island might
be drained. In spite of all this, the
people of the country have worked in
defatigably, revealing a spirit of industry
not excelled in Spain or any of its former
colonies. The planters with prodigious
effort introduced inventions from
Europe for the manufacture of sugar.
By this means the sugar industry be
came famous, and when in later years
the slaves were liberated the centraliza
tion of machinery plants saved the
sugar industry to Cuba.
The religion of Cuba seconded the
court of Spain in persecution, until 1871
nothing but Roman Catholicism was
tolerated. The Spanish clergy took
active part in politico-social battles and
were lamentably forgetful of their high
calling. Spanish priests however, igno
rant, were promoted to high positions
while many who' had chosen the priest
hood as a vocation, men of acknowledg
ed worth, learning and orator', were
shut off in obscure villages because they
were Cubans. Like the Spanish officials
the clergy was most interested in the
subject of lucre, and the purification of
consciences alone cost 548.94 per
annum.
It is marvelous t hat for three-quarters
of a century Cuba has been in almost
constant rebellion, one war following
another in rapid succession and still
Hood River Valley is one of the most
beautiful, if, indeed, it is not the most
beautiful of all the valleys of the North
west. It is in the very heart of the
Cascade range, yet sweeps down in
gentle undulating slopes to the Colum
bia, where it is only fifty feet above
tide water. The valley proper, is from
three to five miles wide and about six-
the spirit of freedom lives in the hearts teen miles long, but its limits would be
of her people. Her own institution of hard to place. The gentle slopes that
slavery prevented the United States bound it rise, at first, almost impereept
from interfering in behalf of her slaves ibly growing gradually more and more
or her people. So from the time John inclined until the line of demarcation
Quincy Adams took the presidential between valley and mountain can not
chair, up to today, we have lived neigh- be determined' Starting from the Col
bo r to atrocities practised by Spain, umbia, as has been stated, almost at
only equalled by her own barbarities in tide-water, one can drive for twenty
former ages. ,j miles due south and then only real
The present revolution is one of ize that the valley has been left behind
the people, it is a common cause with when the snow line of Mt. Hood is but
the principal Cuban families and the
plain people, and they are all desperate
ly ih earnest. The present outbreak
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a half dozen miles away.
Nature was in her happiest mood
when she designed it, and evidentlvin-
CLOUDY WEATHER PREFERRED FOR SITTINGS
was caused by an. offer from Spsin to tended it as the especial property of her
make certain reforms in the government lovely daughters, Flora and Pomona,
of the island. The old revolutionary To the north Mt. Adams, distant
leaders, fearing that the promise of thirty miles, lifts its snowy dome to the
these reforms might satisfy the Cubans ie.s, wnjie tle Columbia "pours its cer-
and that they would cease to strive for tdean tide ever past on its wav to the
complete independence, started the the pacific. To the south Hood pierces the
revolt, Another cause which precipita
ted the revolution was the financial de
pression of 1894 which closed the sugar
mills all over the island. Had Spain
summer sky with its snowy minaret,
while on the east and west, the ever
green forests lift terrace on terrace
until the green shades into a purple,
MY WORK MY SUCCESS
Chapman 151oek.
THE DALLES, OliEGON
been a protector instead of a persecutor an1 then a misty bue that meeta aml
of her provinces, she might then have
issued a loan that would have kept her
people employed in industry the
greatest preventive of war. Starvation
rather than battle is the policy of Spain.
Little forts are thrown up all over the
island making its plains look like fields
blends with the azure of the sky.
Hood river, a typical mountain stream
winds its way from the glaciers of Mt.
Hood to the Columbia, noisy with its
message from mountain to river.
Majestic oaks, each fit abiding place
of hay-cocks. It is remarkable how for a laughing Dryad, gnarled of bole
closely the line is drawn around every rugged limbed and glossy-leaved, dot
town and city in Cuba. It is impossi- the hill sides and send their long
ble for anyone to pass either from the branches protectingly over trail and
inside or outside, so a stranger in Cuba road. The grassy slopes show a brighter
is a prisoner and only permitted to leave green by comparison with the thousand
by train. From the towns daily raids wild flowers scattered by Nature's hand
are made into the country, the troops in patterns too intricate for mortal ken.
returning in time for supper. The violet peeps demurely through the
By order of General Weyler, all dis- green curtains of the sward, butter-m,,
loyal subjects of Spain were compelled and spring beauties lift their yellow and
n into thp fnrtifipd towns while Pmk blossoms from the long grass, tin-
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wild rose bolder, flirts with butterfly
and bee, blushing anon at her deceitful
ness, and the wanton honey suckle
twines her tendrils carressinglv mi
their huts and crops were burned by the
Spanish soldiers. The result of this is
the herding together of hundreds of
neonle without food, without clothing.
without shelter, simplv huddled together anything within reach, and pours from
on the bare ground, with no thought a11 her gd-lined chalices intoxicating
hnt.hnWt.hv could live another dav. perfume on the wing of every vagrant
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The crowning glory
These are mostly women and children ;
the men having escaped and joined the
insurgents rather than starve. The
object of this order was to starve out
the insurgents, but it has proved a boom
erang that has brought swift and terri
ble suffering to the adherants of the
government. So cruelly is this law en
forced that a man steals out to dig po-
breeze. The dog-wood opens its given
white petals, a delight to the eye and
on the hill side the rhododendron
flashes a crimson flame, as bright as
that in the bush, which Moses saw as
he herded the flocks of the Midian
priest in Egypt.
For a wonder, man has not spoiled
Nature's work, but this was caur-ed In
takes from and adjacent field he is shot circumstances more than by sentimen-
down. The beautiful and fertile island tal love of Nature. It was not that his
is simply a waste, every growing thing hand had become less ruthless, to fell
having been cut down and burned. To the oak or prune the vine, but that the
realize this we need ouly remember the uses to which the soil was adapted
fact that from one small province there made a few acres sufficient for all
was shipped to the United State? in 1894 his needs. The vine and the fruit tree
eleven millions of dollars worth of found here their homes, and orchards
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through lack of attention or proper means of pre
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sugar, in 1895 it fell to eight millions
and in 1S96 did not reach one million.
It may be very well for the United
States to avoid entering into a foreign
war but this is not a war, it is a slaugh
ter of innocent women and children
carried on at our very doors.- President
Cleveland stated in his message to con-
heavy with yellow and scarlet fruit, in
stead of billowing grain fields, were the
husbandmans' care and pride. In con
sequence though the valley contains a
population of more than 2,000, much of
the land is in the condition that man
found it. The mountain streams have
been diverted, and instead of leaping
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gress, that when the war in Cuba "has and laughing as of old, adown the rug
degenerated into a strife which is noth- ged canyon, they toil slowly noiselessly
ing more than the useless sacrifice of patiently the long summer through,
human life, our obligations to the between rows of vines and trees, until
sovereignty of Spain will be superceded swallowed and absorbed by the thirsty
by higher obligations which we can soil.
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hardly hesitate to recognize and dis
charge." We find, the struggle has de
generated into not only a useless sacri
fice of life, but a wanton sacrifice of
life, property and decency. Is it the
the money power that is holding back
the protecting hand of our president?
Can any power hold back our people
The roads are perfect, the wheelmans'
paradise. But why attempt to describe
it? Some future Goldsmith may do so
in Uowing verse. Some painter, yet un
known to fame, may here find inspira
tion, but the unpoetic pencil can but
conceal the beauties it most would
show. To be appreciated it must be
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when we know that within eighty miles fi , . t -t t -t ,
of our coast, American property has gpend a (lay there in May or June
been destroyed, American people have fee, realize and then tell if vou can.
been imprisoned and shot, American Mrs. J. II. Cradlebauoh.
children are begging for bread? Surely
our degredation has become complete syrr
when we fail to act, and act at once, for The bull that faced the engine on the
every day means the loss of hundreds of railroad track had plenty of pluck, but
lives of the innocent and helpless. no judgment. He was just like Spain
Mrs. W. E. Dcxlap. at the present time.
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