The August Revolution 85
"The survivors of our heroic and holy struggles for independence
are rending one another and opening the way for the entrance of Fins
[sic], Germans, Americans, and Spaniards, who shall come to enjoy the
fecundity and richness of our soil, the freshness of our air, the murmur
of our rivers, the sweetness of our pale moonlit nights, the caresses of
our seas, and even the love of our women.
"Can the Negroes wish themselves to bring the knife to cut their
throats?
"The whites, are they not like frogs, asking for a master, a hard
master, who will stay forever.
"This republic, so rich, so youthful, so beautiful, so envied, by all,
is it to be cast out and delivered to the Yankee, merely because elec
tions were carried out well or ill?
"Are there not to be, after all, more elections, and are there not
means to make these elections be as they should rather than place our
neck under the heel of Uncle Sam?"
- Sleeper to Secretary of State, September 1, 1906, Foreign Re
lations, 1906, pp. 464-65.
- Thirty-eight signatories of Compromise Proposal printed in the
Havana Daily Telegraph, September 10, 1906.
Prominent Liberals among the Veterans were Tomas Recio, Enrique
Collazo, and Manuel Lazo.
- Menocal's "Bases," September 7, 1906, reprinted in Secades and
Diaz Pardo (eds.), La justicia en Cuba: patriotas y traidores, II 64.
For Menocal's account and related Veteran correspondence see Ibid.,
pp. 29-30, 32-33, 61-64, or Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 500-502.
- Sleeper to Secretary of State, September 6 and 7, 1906, Foreign
Relations, 1906, pp. 469-72.
- William Inglis, "How Cubans Fight Cubans," Harpers Weekly,
L (October 6, 1906), 1416-18, 1434-35. See also Havana Daily Tele
graph, September 8, 1906, and the New York Times, September 10,
- William Inglis, "With the Rebel Leader in the Cuban Hills,"
Harpers Weekly, L (September 29, 1906), 1380-83.
- Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, I, 265, 312-13; "Record of Frank
Steinhart's Military and Civil Services Under the War Department,"
n.d. (1902?), Cuba Subject File, Wood Papers.
- Steinhart File, 4E3, 28-7-1, Box 236, Foreign Service Records,
RG 59.
Steinhart had planned to resign as consul-general on January 1, 1907,
to become the Havana representative of the New York investment house
of Speyer and Company. At Taft's insistence, he remained in his post
until July, 1907, when he resigned to negotiate a loan for the Cuban
government.
- Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, 458.
- Steinhart to Loeb, September 5, 1906, Case 244/310, Num. File,
1906-1910, Vol. XXXVII, RG 59.
- Steinhart to Secretary of State, September 8, 1906, Taft-Bacon
Report, pp. 444-45.
