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E. Robinson's Sons, Scranton.
Casey & Kelly Brewing Co., Scranton.
Lackawanna Brewing Co., Scranton.
M. Robinson Brewery, Scranton.
Scranton Brewing Co., Scranton.
Reichard & Weaver, Wilkes-Barre.
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Hughes & Qlennon, Pittston.
Hughes Ale Brewery, Pittston.
J. Arnold Brewery, Hazleton.
Dickson Brewing Co., Priceburg.
Pelu. Krantz Brewery, Carbondale.
A. Hartung, Honesdale.
the Finest
PORTERS
T .is is the largest Brewing Company in the State, having a capacity of 1,000,000 barrels a year. This Brewing Company employs at
the present time about 600 people at their several plants. They also give employment, indirectly, through the different lines and branches of mechani
cal labor, to many more. The amount of money paid out last year, in wages alone, was $375,000.
THE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY ARE
CHARLES ROBINSON, Scranton, President.
A. J. CASEY, Scranton, Treasurer.
GEO. WEAVER, Wilkes-Barre, R. M. HUGHES, Pittston, Vice-Presidents.
W. G. HARDING, Wilkes-Barre, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer.
Hie Hears Building, Scranton
The Offices of the Company Are Located at
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SAD PLIGHT OF THE
ISLAND OF CUBA
HAS THREE GOVERNMENTS AND
HONE IS SUPREME.
S nvntion and Deflation Aie the
'.Intel inl Conditions and Suspicion,
'enlousy, Moibld Dicnd and Gen
ual Unieliability tho Intellectual
nd Moial Conditions Which. Wo
i-Inve to Confront Uncle Sam's
Big Continct in the I'eail of the
Antilles.
i i Meliiili- In iV.lli I s tin lil
iiiimcr len-ntl imbiWliicl In Mi
ll imiiii il Pniilitmo fin iiFi as a lest
l. k liv i-lilldifii In tlii" fioe schcKilH
oT Illi lllSUIROUW kIvi-s this ilodiiUlnu
i i iib.i 'Culm, " tsnys the uilini'i, ik
ai M.1111I. ll Is a H'l'Ullllr. Its lilcKl
t Is liartiiliimuf MiisHo. .Muslim.
mi . ii" (iiniinaiiili-t In i lili'i Hi" t!i
ai n. or lilit-i.iiiim '
ii Il.n.tnu, on one ulilo of Mio I'liizu
(i Aini.ii. Is a Ills liiti tuo-stoiy
1 i Uu t Ii Is thu liousc of tin- i aiitaln
U m i.il Tho .spallldli fliiK l ll)lilK o. i
Ii In tin1 (on Idms and li-rt'iitluu
i inn pin ti nits of Spalns Ulnns anil
iu i-ns alternate- with Illinois, th
pii linu of whusH fianii-4, liki- Snanlsh
t M'i and pulley, ate sadlv tnmlnlieel
.ii il hli.i Ki'lli d Iliie SpunlMi Kelieials
.ml ioIoik'Ih In a Rloiv of sold bi.n-l
aid Rpuis whisper ana lntrlcuo and
h olie ilciifttes an they huve done
f ' ihe last handled jmus. Jt Is th
b vpinnient of Alfonso Nil I, Ulnir 'if
Si uu. lotrupt and medleal and djlnir,
bin Ile el tllclchS a Ko eftllilullt.
Tin eo miles frmii the palme. aiiiou?
ih IUas or the Veilado. Is the f-alon
Ti rha. thu hnine of the Amoilcnn
I v acunllini (oininlsslun, where a nuin
1m i of Keiitleuion In liiiinniiilate Amei
1 ll blue llllifinnis (111 tale leltet.s to
m nnRiiiphfiH and ttaiihait dallv 1011
t ii buMliiPss with all the tnsteinatli
In slttii-ss ot a 'New Voik (ountliiK
t mi Any one ot them would consider
ti ilmost a iieiFounl atftont to IiihIii
uu o that any IUik tnptesents tho
B'Kliest leal (neielKiity over Culiu
oilier than the Stais and Sttlpes which
Minp ft rm thu peak of the toof ovet
hl In ad
ANOMAI.Ol'R 1'JCTl'lti:.
This, then, Is the anomalous picture
Cuba piescnts today In a nation- Isl
and seven liuudied miles lonij, with
a population lens than hall that of
Greater New loik. we have tinea dis
tinct governments 01, to speak more
exactly, would-be iroveininents. Tho
Cubans, nilstiustful and sensltlo Tho
Spaniards, protesting und ciulbbllntr
The American, Insistent and nBgies
Mc, An this too. In u tountiy which
for four j ears has been binned nnd
plundered and foiiKht ocr with all of
that fierce Intensity of which only tiop
Icnl natures aio capable. Uvory man's
hand held against bis bi other and ev
er) band has belli a machete.
Hut the situation Is further compli
cated by tho quai i els and dissensions
of the Cuban and Spanish patties. A
Cuban Is by nutim a politician. Tho
lntilgues and excltinent of politics aio
well suited to his character. With u
muzzled press and only uoveriiinental
parties, his fondness for political strife
have never befoio found a vent, but
now that tho bonds are being every
day more and moio loosened the Cu
ban has a childish delight in taking
pa it In political dlscussinn. Tin more
U'lletni'lit and peisonal 11 Is the bcttei
lie hoc ins to like It. Sillie the pro
tocol, politics has become tho 1 tiling
passion In Cuba Theie lane been
mnny leient cImheps and tounlet
chang( s in them.
CI1ANCI.N15 I'AIITIKS.
The autonomist!-, lefoi mists and con
servatives weie the tlnoe pat ties in
existence when the revolution begun In
1V.C In the political convulsions of the
list tluee yeais tho lefoimlst party
lias entile h ilis.ippoaiod. The niiii"
i.ulirjl of i nicinbeis iolned ill in-'
sin gents, while thu gicat majority be- I
came .uitonoinihts. I
With the coming of r.lnnto the con- '
m natives went out of utile e and powoi
so loniplitily that tin have only ox- '
lsted leall) mote n an org.inl.itlon
that as a living element in the politics .
of the time. Tho position of thu con- I
seiatie paity loi the past ear In j
Cuba litis been somewhat similar to I
that of the lojallsts' in Prance a le-
moinbiance of the past and a posslbll
It of t'o f tu, i.ilher than a icalltv
of the piesent. All of lil.iuco's ap
poiutnients were autonomists An over
whelming majoilty of the deputies m 1
the newly lornieil 'camaia iniul.it,"
or local patll.tmeiit, belonged to that '
paity. It is a mistake to suppose that
autonomists weie any less loval sub- j
jeets of the king of Spain than tho
c onsei nt! os bail been. "n the cou
tinij. tlteif battle-cry was alwajs that
their loMilty was aelio and luaetlcil
while that of the conseiatlos was
passive una theotetlial.
Willi the passing of the conaetatlcs
the two lialanelng political paitles weie
supplied b the dlslslou that at once
lollowid among the autonomists Into
ladical and t onset atle wlngi They
were botli Spanish and both loyal, but
tlie ladlials wanted a mote cleaily de
tlneii and moio inimedlato autonomy
titan did their opponents. The debates
between them in tho camara wete often
tlerco and vehement. In utimbei.s the
eoisenatle wing was the stronger.
Al'TONOMY'S FAILURE.
Autonomy, like the old teglme, had
pioed a failute; but the two autouo
inlpt paitles continued to exist. Thev
leallzed the new conditions and made
a pat ty isi-nto of it. The radicals, under
the leadership of Rllseo Glberga, Issued
wliat In the United States would be
called a platfoim. In it they declared
that they accepted the t Humph of the
United States as lliml. That Independ
ence h.ftl been vl'ctoihus, and they
pledged themselves to support It, al
though they considered It their duty to
take no actual pait in politics and ie
inaln neutinl until called by the "voice
of public sentiment."
"The voice" seems to havo called, be
caue the unheal autonomists aie now
hard at woik lighting annexation.
The other wing of tho autonomists
have Joined with the old conservatives
In a Kind of forlorn hope that tho peace
negotiations In I'ails will ptove futile
and that Spain may at least letalu
some sort of i mitral of tho inland. Fall
ing in that, they will work for annex
ation An thing to save Cuba from the
Cubans, whom they hate with tho ac
cumulated hato of centuries. An Illus
tration of their sentiments Is found In
the recent declaration ot one of their
leaders. Marquis Rafael Montoro, that
he expects to f-ell bis pioperty In Cuba
and leturn to Spain; that ho will never
live In a country with whono govern
ment tho Cubans havo anything to do.
It is not alono what are known m th
"rccngnltd" Cuban patties who tiro
snuggling and clashing. Tho insiti
gents, too, ,h.ic tluir ttouhlos The
two months of enfoticd idleness and
pt.uo have tut in d tho instil gout camps
till over Cuba into debating clubx on
the futuie destlnv of the Island. There
aie all silts ot gioiips and lollowers
of individual tlumles, but they aie all
factions of tho two loadln? insurgent
paitles. Roth favor absolute Independ
ence, but the laiger and stronger of
the two known as "The Nationalist","
want it to come graduallv. In their
manifestoes they say they have peifect
lonlldence thnt the United States will
keep Its wotd in making Cuba abso
lutely free and Independent. They look
upon the presence of Ametlcnn soldier s
In the island as a means to thnt end,
und aio willing to co-operate with them
in the vvorl. (' in ilntalnlntr law and
ot del
A violent mtiio'ltv of the insiu gents,
how et r, maintain that the piesenoe'
of an Ametlcnn aimv In Cuba is a pos
itive menace if not nn insult to Cu
ban liberty. They scorn the idea of
a military protectorate, and nsseit that
If the nrmy of the Insurgents w is
stiong enough to gain independence
they aio stiong enough to maintain it.
Among insurgents of both paitles
theie .seems to bo a lack ot giatltude
to the United States foi tho pait which
they have played in helping to nchleve
Cuban liberty. They harp constantly
in theli newspapeis and piopagando,
on the suffetings, hardship and brav
ely of the Cuban soldiers, with only a
passing icfereneo to tho Anici leans
whoso money and guns and lives made
Cuba fiee.
CuNDRSCUXSION.
'Yes" .said a Cuban geneial In his
camp to me the other day, "the Unite l
Stales is a gteat nation, If they had
not been wo would never havo accept
ed their oft or ot assistance in our sttug-gle-
vlth Spain."
Thot is tho spli it of all Cuban com
ment on the United Stntcs. They weie
Kind enough to accept our set vices In
their behalf. "Tho condescension la
foieigneis" 1 caches its illmax in Cuba.
Meanwhile leconcentiados die, and
the Spaniaids retire. Tho llrst lapid
ly and the last eiy slowly. Rveiy
one in Cuba lui3 become so used to re
concentrados' sufferings that their
dally deaths ftom starvation attract
fai less of public interest than the
seething political questions of the hour.
Numeiioallv, theie aie not so many
deaths among the leioncentiados today
as last spilng. The leason Is that so
many have died altcady that.there are
really comparatively only a few vic
tims lelt for the death harvest. Tho
blockade added to the hunger hoiror
all over the Island, but Its fence was
piinclpally felt outside of Havana,
where the concentrated lesources of
a nteliopolls weie enabled In HOtitti de-
giees to alleviate tho suffeilngs.
An illustration of Cuban conditions
I witnessed tho other day In Matan
zas. Heie tho suffeilng and mortality
among the reconcontrndos Is something
frightful; men and women diop like
dogs In the street eveiy clay and die
without a groan. Autonomists, Cu
bans nnd Spaniaids blame each other
for the sad stale of affalis, but all In
sist that theie Is positively no money
In the town with which to buy pro
visions,
INCONSISTUNCY.
General Reteneouit, who Is tho Insur
gent commander of Mntanzas province,
has u camp only lour miles away with
seven hundred strong, healthy-looking
follow ets, who go through a machete
drill every day and discuss politics.
Genual llolencourt was formeily a
physician in Matanzas, he is .1 most
Intelligent, well-educated man, and
perhaps lopresents tho best tvpo of
Cuban commander. In order to show
mo how much better the insiugenta
weie faring than their enemies tho
Spanish soldleis, he led 1110 into a large
Sliaek which he used as a commlssaiy
wauhoiibo. From Hour to loot it was
piled high w Ith barrels of beans nnd
coin-meal
T askpd General Reteneouit where he
got tlie supplies In time of peace.
"Why, the explanation is Mmplo," ho
said. ' Thev nie conti United to us reg
it!. ulv by oiu fi lends in Mataiuas; to
be sure It is a saciillco for them, hut
they aio willing to malco it for tho
cause of Cubin libeity."
What n cluiiacterlslle Cuban incon
sistency' Food enough to suppoit f-ev-en
bunilf. d able-bcdlfd men. till nb'o
to t ilce e.ire of thcmslvo" bo oiigl t
to bo t homo tilHiiq the fl 1 ' , but not
a centnvo tor the hollow-eyed women
who fall dead with their babies In their
arms eveiy day onlv four miles nvvay
In the eafcM of Mutanzns men will sit
for hours dWcutshig a possibility for
the presidency of Cuba; any unusual
animation in the discussion will chaw
a Inige ciowd, gesticulating and ex
cited. Rut I saw a seventeen-year-old
gill fall dead fiom starvation as sh
passed by the matket-place. Her
death nttracted no more nttentlon than
Unit of ,i tab hotso on Rtoadway.
A RAT) ATMOSPEIRRi:.
Tito bickgiound of the sad picture of
Cuba today is tho ttopical imaginative,
untenable chai actor of tho inhabitants
of the Island.
"Theie Is bomcthlng lu tho ptmos
phete heie," said a piominent Span
iard In llavnna to me, "which stems to
btlti'T dishonor nnd disgiace to every
one on the Island Just as completely as
jellow fever luiks in every stunni r
breeze that blows from Havana har
bor. No matter how honest n man
may havo been In Spain, the minute
ho lands in Cuba his one object in life
beems to be how much ho can steal
from the men who trust him"
Conuptlon and dishonesty have nl
vvays been the curse of poor Cuba
They have reached their climax sine
tho tlgnlng of the protocol. Rvery oftl
clal, fiom the highest to the lowest, Is
engaged In a mad rush to lino his
pockets before tho curtain falls on tho
last act of Spanish rule. A great deal
ot stealing Is done openly. I have fre
quently heaid Spanish oJllcers and
custom hous? men justify their thluv.
pry on tho giound that corruption In
Madild had defrauded them out of
their salailes, now irretrievably over
due, nnd that they stolo only to retali
ate on tho men who had cheated them.
Theio are many Interesting person
alities in this wild sea of politics Go
mez said recently: "Cuba has i cached
tlm stneo whoie It needs a Gambetta
what Cubans bad better do Is to Und
one." Gambetta has not yet uppeared.
TIIK FUTURU.
AVhat will bo the outcome no ono can
predict. In Cuba tho fact that tho
United States have pledged Independ
ence to the Island is usually regauled
as an insuperable obstacle to annexa
tion. Independence has ninny dangers
and Is connected with may pioblcms
The pi ev ailing idea in Cuba seems to
be that an American piotectotato that
recognizes the Cuban lepubltc in some
such way as Rnglaud doen the Khedivo
of Ugypt will bu the ultimate result.
Only a few weeks before Joso Marti
mado tho wild dash Into Cuba which
cost him his life, he was unfoldlnc to
ii lifelong f i lend his dreams for tlie
future of his countiv. "Rut," said his
friend. ' my dear Jose, Hiipposing that
jou do succeed, what kind of a muss
cm you think tho Cubans will make
when they try to govern themselves '"
Marti was silent for n moment, and
then said: "Whatever they do cannot
be worse than the Spaniards."
Tlie sentiment of the Mazzlnl of Cuba
expresses what moie than half of his
vlctoiious countiytnen believe today.
Few of thorn take an optimistic lcvv
of the hltuitlon. If they can only bo
allowed to live and retain possession ot
their property for tho next ten jiats
they will lie grateful. They realize bet
te r, poihaps, than any ono else that the
Immediate futuio of Cuba is daik and
strewn with dangers; but however dark
and dangerous It be. "it cannot buworso
than the Spaniards "
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