CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



ganization of taxation, in order to equalize, 

 as far as possible, its incidence. 



(4) Support of agriculture and develop- 

 ment of immigration. 



(5) Reorganization of the Army and 

 Navy, in order to obtain efficiency. 



Again in 19 16 he received the nomination 

 and was declared reelected, but after a 

 contest so close and so much disputed 

 that the unsuccessful party fomented an 

 armed uprising which for a time threatened 

 to overturn the government and was only 

 subdued after bloodshed and some de- 

 struction of property. During General 

 Menocal's presidency the European War 

 presented many problems of the utmost 

 difficulty, some of which were solved and 

 the quality of President Menocal's states- 

 manship shown, when, following the ex- 

 ample of the United States, Cuba espoused 

 the cause of the Allies and declared a state 

 of war with Germany within twenty-four 

 hours after the United States had done so. 



In 19 18 President Menocal was elected 

 an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic 

 Society of America. 



HISPANIC NOTES 



