THE CUBA REVIEW 



Nicolas Alberdi, Secretary of the Interior, 

 Republic of Cuba. 



Senor Marcelino Diaz de Villergas, Secretary of 

 the Treasury, Republic of Cuba. 



taken out from the storeroom and cleaned. 

 These globes were the ones that were used 

 during colonial times when Cuba had her 

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Speaking in Boston, on 

 Vice-Presi- March 25, at a banquet of 

 dent Zayas the Commercial Club of that 

 on the city, Vice-President Zayas 

 Treaty. spoke on the economic re- 

 lations between Cuba and 

 the United States, he said in part: 



"Permanent peace exists and the present is 

 very propitious for Cuba's attainment of a great 

 increase in industrial and agricultural life. Our 

 natural markets are in the United States. The 

 reciprocity treaty is favorable to the Cuban sugar 

 industry, and less so to cigars and vegetables, yet 

 United States exports to Cuba have increased 

 under it. We do not believe a new treaty will be 

 unfavorable to the United States, and Cuba de- 

 sires a little more protection for those two articles 

 that are her principal product. 



"Good conditions exist for the investment of 

 money in Cuba, where there is offered a wide 

 field for business. In the interior, also, there 

 are many metals awaiting the coming of capital." 

 "Americans that have helped Cuba to her 

 independence should take equal pride in 

 seeing her rich and happy," he concluded. 

 J. Monzon Aguirre, Consul of Cuba at 

 Boston, also spoke in favor of a revised 

 tariff on fruits and other Cuban products, 

 and predicted that there would be raised 

 this season on the Island 1,800,000 cases of 

 pineapples. 



Dr. Ramon Mesa, Secretarv of Public Instruction. 



