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CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



ning of the war of Independence, General 

 Valeriano Weyler suppressed the paper on 

 the ground that its title and ideals were 

 incompatible with the tranquillity of the 

 country and the sovereignty of Spain, sub- 

 sequently deporting its editor to Spain 

 where he was imprisoned in the castle of 

 Monjuitch in Barcelona and afterwards in 

 the prisons of Santander and Bilboa until 

 the thirteenth of August, 1 898, the day after 

 the Peace Protocol between Spain and the 

 United States was signed in Washington. 

 On his return to Cuba and on the organiza- 

 tion of the first Board of Aldermen of Ha- 

 vana, Pardo Suarez was appointed, jointly 

 with Colonel Saturnino Lastra, to a position 

 of trust in the Administration of the Munici- 

 pal taxes. When those who had suffered 

 imprisonment, penalties, and deportation 

 formed an association for patriotic pur- 

 poses, he was elected Secretary; he also 

 became an honorary Member of the Pa- 

 triotic Committee of Havana of which Don 

 Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, who had 

 been President of the Republic in arms, was 

 Chairman. 



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