THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 



by the Munson Steamship Line. 





Volume Vn. 



SEPTEMBER, 1909. 



NUMBER 10. 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



The Lottery— The President's Address Pleases— The New Members of the Cabinet 

 — Automatic Telephones — New Post Office — Etc., Etc. 



A circular issued August 

 The 17 by Director of the Lottery 



National Gustavo Alonso Castaneda 

 Lottery. says that all persons receiv- 

 ing appointments as collectors 

 of the lottery must be native born Cubans 

 or naturalized citizens. 



The lottery law provides that these of- 

 fices should ht held only by Cuban citizens, 

 but when the lists were published there ap- 

 peared among the appointments the names 

 of a number known to be Spaniards. 



The United States postal authorities are 

 beginning to exercise a close supervision of 

 the mails in the hope of holding up money 

 which is sent from that country for the 

 purchase of lottery tickets in Cuba. Natur- 

 ally the Cubans looked to the United States 

 for most of the support for their national 

 lottery, which is just going into operation at 

 Havana. A revenue of from $2,000,000 to 

 $5,000,000 a year is expected from the draw- 

 ings, and it is believed that a great part of 

 this money would be likely to come from 

 the United States unless some sort of bar- 

 riers were opposed. 



U. S. Postmaster General Hitchcock gave 

 orders to all the postal officials of the coun- 

 try to exercise a close supervision of mails 

 consigned to Cuba to see that they con- 

 tained no remittances for lottery tickets. 



For this reason Cuban business houses, 

 says the Brooklyn Times, and people gen- 

 erally are notifying their clients and friends 

 in the United States that it would be well 

 hereafter in the sending of checks to Cuba 

 to specify on the checks the purpose for 



which they are sent. Otherwise if the com- 

 mission deems the least suspicious the- 

 checks may be held up pending investiga- 

 tion. Preparations for the opening of the; 

 lottery are rapidly being completed. 



Stirring 

 Speech. 



President Gomez on his rec- 

 tum to Havana from Cayo 

 Cristo; on August 22, de- 

 livered from the balcony of 

 the palace the following stir- 

 ring address to the people who had gath- 

 ered to welcome him: 



"As a result of alarming rumors gratuitously 

 circulated about a third intervention, I have re- 

 ceived telegrams from all parts of the island, from 

 San Antonio to Cape Maisi Point, expressing the 

 Cuban people's decided support of the liberal 

 government. 



"I have given up my summer_ vacation, which 

 I had well earned, I may say without false mod- 

 esty, for I had previously worked a great deal 

 on account of the many difficulties I had encoun- 

 tered ever since I took my post. I have now 

 come to reorganize the public administration, if 

 it has changed. I come to solve whatever is 

 awaiting solution, and to punish, if punishment 

 is necessary, for I am resolved to act with full 

 energy to save the Republic, for I wish when 

 my day comes to leave this palace whoever my 

 successor may be shall find that I have deliv- 

 ered the Republic into his hands as I received 

 it — free, independent and sovereign. 



"Meanwhile I count on all and every Cuban 

 to help me along toward the salvation of the 

 Republic. 



"Countrymen, long live the Republic of Cuba!" 



His speech produced a good impres- 

 sion. The press commented upon it fa- 

 vorably, and he received more than a 

 thousand congratulatory telegrams offer- 

 ing him most earnest support. 



