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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



CUBAN NEWSPAPER COMMENT. 



"We must admit beyond 

 Praising question that under Mr. Ma- 

 Governor goon's administration the 

 Magoon. people's rights, Hberty and 

 property have been protected, 

 and t'hat the general interests of the coun- 

 try have been safeguarded, even against our 

 own follies." — •Cuba y America, Havana. 



"Nevertheless it cannot be denied by hon- 

 est men that Governor Magoon assumed the 

 government of Cuba under the most diffi- 

 cult circumstances, and by his tact and good, 

 fair judgment and ability has maintained 

 peace and order in the country. There has 

 also been great prosperity." — El Triunfo, 

 Havana, the official organ of Gen. Gomez. 

 El Vigilante, of Guanajay, says: "Mr. 

 Magoon, being the best ruler Cuba ever had, 

 is honest, energetic, kind and just." 



The alarmist — "Now he's going to take her sure." 

 Uncle Sam — "I have had three chances to do it, 

 and have proved that I have no such desire; but 

 what if they force me to it the fourth?" 



The above cartoon shows the "Lucha's" idea of 

 the present Cuban-American relations. It will be 

 noted that Uncle Sam's valise is labeled "Ida y 

 vuelta," "Round Trip," or "Going and Coming," 

 which is the cartoonist's clever way of indicating 

 that the withdrawal of the Americans next Feb- 

 ruary may mean their early return to the island. 



"All that the Provisional 

 Must Governor has done in the last 

 Direct fourteen months has been to 

 Her Own put Cuba in a condition to 

 Destiny. elect her own government and 

 to recover the untrammeled 

 direction of her own destinies. When the 

 day arrives to test their strength at the polls 

 the Cuban people will not appear as blood- 

 thirsty factions, ready to destroy them- 

 selves, but will proceed to sustain their 

 preferences, orderly and peacefully, without 

 indulgence in rancors and angry dissen- 

 sions."- — La Lucha. 



"Governor Magoon in 

 Want Washington will represent 

 Independence Cuba," says La Discussion of 

 Later. Havana. "He ought to tell 

 Mr. Roosevelt the Cubans de- 

 sire independence, when they are duly pre- 

 pared and on a stable and firm basis, and 

 that the country is not yet in a condition for 



rashly fixing sudh a date, lest political anar- 

 chy prevail." 



Commenting upon the pos- 

 Afraid of sibility of Washington hesitat- 

 Her Own ing to leave American troops 

 People. here after 'delivering the is- 

 land to the Cuban govern- 

 ment, Diario de la Marina says : "If so, 

 Washington is not yet well informed of the 

 true feeling of the Cubans. If it were it 

 would not hesitate long on that which every- 

 body here wants. It is not of the American 

 soldiers that the Cuban countrymen are 

 afraid, but of other soldiers who, having no 

 horses, seize them. 



"The people are incapable of 

 February i maintaining a stable govern- 

 A Rash ment by themselves. Why, 

 Order. then, so rash and mad an or- 

 der as that which the Ameri- 

 can President has given to Cuba now? 

 There is no other remedy but to obey his 

 imperial orders, but let us tell him the 

 truth." — El Pueblo, Holeuin. 



"America," says La Lucha, 

 Relies on "is interested in giving the 

 America. Cubans self-government. But 

 she can't do it regardless of 

 her great responsibilities before the world. 

 She must establish here a government ca- 

 pable of fulfilling its duties before leaving. 



"The destiny of the Cuban 

 Drop Republic is at this moment in 

 Factionalism, the hands of the Cuban peo- 

 ple. The time has come when 

 the Cuban people must drop factionalism 

 and the fight for spoils. They must now 

 work with unceasing patriotic spirit to put 

 their house in order against the time when 

 they will again be left alone, with the whole 

 world watching them in their efforts to 

 stand as a nation." — Havana Post. 



"During Sefior Palma's ad- 

 Representa- ministration the legislative 

 tion Larger, power worked irregularly. 



"The House then was com- 

 posed of sixty-three Repre- 

 sentatives. In 1909 it will have eig'hty-two. 

 The number of City Councillors is also aug- 

 mented on account of the increase in popu- 

 lation, and besides there will be two more 

 secretaries in the President's cabinet. The 

 personnel will be larger, but it is 'doubtful 

 whether the people's capacity for self-gov- 

 ernment has increased at the same rate." — 

 Cuba y America. 



The Roosevelt announce- 

 Not ment was not received with 



Appreciated, entire kindness by all of the 

 people of Cuba nor by a ma- 

 jority of them, nor by many of the property 

 owners who have suffered in the past 

 through revolution or banditti. — Havana 

 Telegraph. 



