The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

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An Irrepressible Conflict of Testimony

The Double-Entry Historical Bookkeeping of the Battles in Cuba--The Remarkable Characteristics of Discrepancy--The Havana and Key West Stories Discolored and Distorted Out of Recognition--The Responsibility for Nickel Novel Cuban Reports--Dynamite and the Press--The War in the West End. THERE cannot be a consecutive history of the horrors of the warfare in Cuba. This time the whole Island is involved, and the coast and the interior, the cities and the country, are included in the calamity. There is a special activity in and about Havana, caused by the necessity of supplying the Spanish army, and the efforts of the Havana merchants, who have something to sell, to get it away from the Island that is vanishing in a vast catastrophe. One can tell by the sort of news the newspapers contain whether the accounts of the battles come by wire or by grapevine. For example, this is a typical Spanish story:

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