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TH E CUBA REVI EW. 



THE PRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The National Lottery. 



Cuba expects to win $2,000,000 a year 

 from the new lottery. Let us hope that 

 it won't be sent down there by Amer- 

 icans. There is still that little bill of 

 $7,000,000 unpaid and we want Cuban 

 money for it. — Phila. (Pa.) Inquirer. 



The tendency of late years in all pro- 

 gressive countries has been to put as 

 many checks on gambling of all kinds as 

 possible. When a government itself goes 

 into the business it is getting down to 

 a pretty low level. — Albanj' (N. Y.) 

 Press. 



It is a cruelly heavy tax, says the 

 Providence (R. I.) Tribune, falling in 

 the main on those who can least afford 

 to pay. To be sure, several European 

 states of respectable standing still raise 

 a good part of their revenues in this 

 wicked way; but Cuban legislators are 

 showing a shameful disregard of ethical 

 responsibilities in following their foolish 

 example. 



The United States has much the same 

 right to protest against the establishment 

 of a lottery in riavana as it would to 

 the maintenance there of conditions that 

 kept yellow fever alive and always ready 

 to invade our cities. The Cuban lottery 

 tickets will be sure to come here in great- 

 er or less numbers, and will be a constant 

 nuisance to the police, a constant danger 

 to the foolish part of our population. — 

 N. Y. Times, May 17. 



While we in this country sanction and 

 legalize stock gambling and corners in 

 foodstuffs, criticism of the Cuban gov- 

 ernment for encouraging lotteries doesn't 

 come with a good grace from us. — 

 Fall River (Mass.) Globe. 



Cuba is going to have a national lot- 

 tery as a means to raismg an extra 

 $2,000,000 a year to meet the deficit in 

 the revenues. So are we; tariff revision 

 is getting to be a lottery. — Washington 

 (D. C.) Times. 



It is not strange that the Cuban House 

 ■of Representatives has passed a bill au- 

 thorizing the establishment of a na- 

 tional lottery. A people that can stand 

 for bullfights probably looks upon a lot- 

 tery as an evidence of oatriotism. — • 

 Jersey City (N. J.) Journal. 



The United States government, which 

 closed the mails to the Louisiana lottery, 

 will close them to the Cuban scheme. — 

 Lowell, Mass., Courier-Citizen. 



The Intervention Costs. 



At present the Government of the 

 United States marks the bill against 

 Cuba on the national ledger. The Bu- 

 reau of Insular Affairs of the War De- 

 partment has kept a careful account. 

 Several members of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives are seeking information on 

 the subject, and they are reported to 

 be inclined to believe that, under the 

 act of Congress which gave authority 

 for the intervention in Cuban affairs, the 

 United States really assumed responsi- 

 bility for the cost of the government. — 

 Washington (D. C.) Times. 



The intervention cost the United 

 States some $6,000,000. And Cuba is ex- 

 pected to "pay the freight." But the 

 terms are easy. The President is em- 

 powered by Congress to receive from 

 the Cuban Government "from time to 

 time such amounts to reimburse the 

 United States as he may consider the 

 Cuban Treasury then able to pay with- 

 out serious embarrassment." There is 

 a chance here for a difference of opinion 

 between the Cuban Secretary of the 

 Treasury and the President of the 

 United States in regard to the meaning of 

 the last six words of the condition. We 

 know who will have the delaying part 

 of the argument. But eventually we will 

 be paid when we annex Cuba and be 

 done with the matter. — Lancaster (Pa.) 

 Examiner. 



It is by no means a settled question 

 that the L'nited States has a legitimate 

 claim upon the Government of Cuba for 

 the reimbursement of the sums expend- 

 ed in the pacification of the island. The 

 obligation was one voluntarily assurned 

 by this country for its own protection 

 and for the furtherance of the national 

 policy of preventing Cuba from passing 

 into other control. Under these cir- 

 cumstances the maintenance of orderly 

 government in Cuba is cheap at the 

 price. — Philadelphia (Pa.) Ledger. 



The matter is to be brought before 

 Congress, but if there was no under- 

 standing with the Cuban government it 

 is not clear how the Cubans can be 

 asked to foot the bill.— Mobile (Ala.) 

 Register. 



It cost this country about eight mil- 

 lions of dollars to make its last visit to- 

 Cuba, but the little republic has done 

 nothing toward meeting the bill. It costs 

 a good deal sometimes to be a generous 

 neighbor. — Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette. 



