Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — CUBANS THREATEN HOSTILITY. [ARTICLE]

CUBANS THREATEN HOSTILITY.

Wonld Fight Americans Unless Their ' Independence Is Granted. Reports from Guinea, province of Havana, say that no farmer or landholder or tenant has turned his hand to the sowing of crops in that vicinity, and the district, therefore, will have no potatoes, tobacco, cane, cabbage, or other vegetables this year. This will further, impoverish the district, and add to the distress. From now until February it will be impossible for farmers to sow crops and in February the ground will be prepared for spring harvest. Therefore the next six months will see a great deal of want and misfortune in that vicinity. This state of affairs is directly due to the unsettled condition of the country and the attitude of a cerahfi portion of the Cubans who openly threats** hostility to the United States and are preparing to take the field and wage a guerrilla warfare against the Americans if any form of government short of absolute independence for the Cubans is established in the island. This matter is openly discussed in the public meeting places of the Cubans at Havana, the plan finding many advocates among certain classes of people.