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.

The Crisis in Cuba

14 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Crisis in Cuba

This War not a Ten Years' War-The Fighting too Fast and Furious to Last-The Crisis Financial, Industrial, Social, Military and…

The Crisis in Cuba: Spanish

The vital parts of the country were not assailed or menaced. Sugar making, tobacco growing, cutting and curing were carried on as usual…

The Crisis in Cuba: Spain

Heretofore the known riches of Cuba were a help to Spanish credit. Now it is known in all the money markets of the world that the disputed…

The Crisis in Cuba: Maceo

Instead of gathering the tobacco in those far-famed regions where the leaf is good as gold and has the flavor the world knows and pays for…

The Crisis in Cuba: Executive

I affirm that the question of the recognition of the existence of a revolutionary government is vested in the Executive. Whether this power…

The Crisis in Cuba: Cuban

Mr. President, our wishes are for Cuban freedom, but can we accomplish this by mere naked declaration? Senators have condemned Spain, and…

The Crisis in Cuba: Missouri

Experiencing none but the kindest sentiments toward Cuba, I will not be a party to the new departure favored by the senator from Missouri…

The Crisis in Cuba: Havana--and

There is that which is fortunate in the appointment of General Lee to be consul-general at Havana--and more, the personal representative of…

The Crisis in Cuba: Creelman

The personal investigations of Mr. Creelman were as to "the following peaceable white men who were shot without trial at Campo Florida…

The Crisis in Cuba: Minas

Between April 13 and 22, says Mr. Creelman, and he is the first to state the fact, the following peaceful inhabitants were taken from their…

The Crisis in Cuba: Francisco

The victims were all white. Their bodies were thrown into a huge sugar boiler, which lies half buried on the roadside on the land owned by…

The Crisis in Cuba: Havana

Mr. Macho, a mulatto, seventy-one years old. Timoteo Ceferino, son of the foregoing, aged seventeen. Castellanos, thirty-five years…

The Crisis in Cuba: Cubans

Here is the bloodiest picture that has been painted, and that there is awful truth to life and death in it can be read in the lines and…

The Crisis in Cuba: Public

Cuba pays $2,192,795 in pensions to those on the retired list and to superannuated officials not in service. Most of the money is exported…

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