THE CUBA REVI E W . 



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Uncle Sam Teaching the Cuban H^w to Shoot 



Captains Golderman, Paiker and Galley of the United States Army were assigned recently 

 by the Secretary of War to drill the Cuban Army. T'hey are already at work. Some Cuban news- 

 papers wanted Spanish officers. The cartoon illustrating their efforts is from the Cairo (111.) Kulletm. 



Third Invasion of Cuba. 



The New York American of May 14 

 printed a Washington despatch to the 

 effect that a third invasion of Cuba by 

 the United States was not improbable 

 in the near future. It said: 



"Each day the island government_ is 

 becoming more involved and plunging 

 deeper and deeper in the mire of finan- 

 cial difficulties. There is said to be a 

 rapid relapse in the conditions left by the 

 United States a few months ago. It is 

 recognized by the administration that 

 intervention is slowly becoming more 

 imperative." 



The Boston, Mass., Advertiser refers 

 to this story and says there is probably 

 enough of truth in it to give some basis 

 for belief to imaginative army officers. 

 It is not impossible that the War De- 

 partment has considered some general 

 scheme of occupation should the authori- 



ties believe it to be necessary. It says 

 further: 



"But it is not impossible that plans have been 

 considered for other expeditions uhica niny never 

 take place. It is the business of the War Depart- 

 ment not to be unprepared, no matter what sudden 

 emergency may arise. 



"That, however, is very different from any admis- 

 sion that the administration has definitely resolved 

 to wipe out the national existence of Cuba, after 

 the United States has so recently aided the republic 

 in the work of beginning a new and peaceful admin- 

 istration by its own people. No man who has talked 

 with the President can doubt that it is his earnest 

 wish that the experiment of the Cuban republic 

 shall be proven a success by time, through the good 

 sense and the broad patriotism of its people. So 

 far as the public can judge, afCairs in Cuba 

 are not by any means in such a state as to con- 

 vince any friend of the island republic that the 

 experiment in self-government has been proven 

 hopeless. On the contrary, the prevailing belief is 

 that the new government has done very well, con- 

 sidering the history of so many other of the Latin- 

 American republics, in their earlier progress to- 

 wards national stability." 



