Facts and Fakes about Cuba (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. A REVIEW OF THE LEADING " FAKES " APPEARING IN THE NEW YORK DAILIES DURING THE YEAR 1896. The capture of Habana.--Efforts of Cubans to persuade Congress to recognize their belligerency.--The capture of Pinar del Rio, and other " military achievements " of Mr. Frederick Lawrence.-- " Fake" letters of Mr. Mannix.--" Fake" lefters from Maceo.--Mr. Lawence's audacity in Washington.--Fertility of the Cuban imagination.--" Fake " story of Americans with Maceo.--A descendant of Ananias.--Spanish imaginative powers.--Mr. Wm. Ryan's celebrated story.--Another fakir.-- The column of Col. Lara.--The shark story.--The dynamite " fake."--The " Mail and Express " " correspondent."-- The Barton story.--Cardenas Armas' pamphlet.--Col. Struch's story.--Sylvester Scovel's report on atrocities.--The Junta located at last.--Efforts of a newspaper to present Gomez with a sword.--Experience of Richard Harding Davis.--" Fake' interviews with Gomez. Various times I have had occasion to state that our information regarding Cuba, as derived from our newspapers, is largely composed of what are known as "' fakes," or articles which do not contain a word of truth, written either by some imaginative police-court reporter who has never seen the island of Cuba, or by the many refugee Cubans, who, as a rule, make their head-quarters in Florida, and pretend to carry on a regular correspondence with some insurgent chief. It is to be regretted that many of our own correspondents, representing the foremost papers in the country, have also been guilty of this same sin, and have so persistently distorted facts, that it is almost impossible to detect the truth when it does appear. It is safe to assert that the owners and managing editors of the various papers...