The Second Intervention 119Manduley feared the United States would negotiate away its
influence: "There is an old Spanish proverb which says: To dog and
woman, show them bread with the left hand and a stick with the
right one. The same combination of energy and benevolence is what
our people need. Either method, if used separately, would simply mean
failure."
- Enrique Collazo, La revolution de agosto (Havana, 1906), p. 7.
Alvaro Cata in De guerra a guerra (Havana, 1906), p. 76, pointed out
that Estrada Palma's government used its power to subvert Cuban
morality. He cited a popular jingle of the time:
La Senorita Asuncion,
guapa y su reputaci6n,
en su destino ha cambiado:
estaba en Gobernaci6n
y dicen... que esta en Estado.
- Roque E. Garrigo, La convulsidn cubana (Havana, 1906), p. 16.
- Enrique Jose Varona, "El talon de Aquiles," written September
26, 1906, in Mirando en torno, pp. 23-27. The original article appeared
in El Figaro (Havana) on September 30, 1906. - Martinez Ortiz. Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia, II,
737-50; Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, El intervencionismo, mal de
males de Cuba republicana (San Jose de Costa Rico, 1931), pp. 11-12;
Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, 442-43, 474-75, 520.
Portell Vila placed particular responsibility on fomenting revolt to
J. M. Ceballos and Company, a Spanish-American real estate, sugar
and financial holding company based in New York, and one of its
officers, Manuel Silveira, "El Morgan Cubano." Silveira was supposed
to have fallen out with Estrada Palma and financed Jose Miguel G6mez,
then to have supported the government until he fled on October 2.
His action coincided with the financial collapse of Ceballos and Com
pany. New York Times, October 11-17, 1906.