THE CUBA REVIEW. 



The prevalent belief in 



Will Not official circles is that if 

 Pwticipate the Cubans do not succeed 

 in Politics, in governing themselves 

 this time, their chances of 

 doing so v\^ill forever be gone, says the 

 New York Evening Post. But w^hen the 

 candidates now in sight are considered 

 the chances for a successful Cuban Gov- 

 ernment seem less good. For the best 

 Cubans, with rare exceptions, decline 

 to participate in politics, and the candi- 

 dates now in the field have no platforms 

 and no policies save the desire for office 

 and its emoluments. 



For this failure of the best Cubans to 

 come forward, the United States is not, 

 of course, responsible. But the situa- 

 tion it creates should make the Wash- 

 ington government consider seriously 

 whether it ought not to change its de- 

 cision for a very early withdrawal in 

 the interest of Cuba and the United 

 States as the best way of avoiding a 

 third intervention. 



President Roosevelt sent 



General to the Senate, April 22, the 



Barry nomination of Brig.-Gen. 



Promoted. Thomas H. Barry, com- 

 manding the Army of Cu- 

 ban Pacification, to be Major-General, 

 succeeding Maj.-Gen. Charles B. Hall, 

 who was retired on April 29. 



Gen. Barry is a native of New York. 

 He was born on October 13, 1855, and 

 was educated in the public schools and 

 the College of the City of New York. 

 He was graduated from the West Point 

 Military Academy in 1877, and assigned 

 to the Seventh Cavalry. As a Brigadier- 

 General of the United States Volunteers, 

 Gen. Barry in 1900 served with the 

 China relief expedition, and also in the 

 Philippines until 1901. From Novem- 

 ber, 1900, to July. 1901, he was chief 

 of staff of the Philippine division. 



Governor Magoon on April 17, ordered 

 the director of census to send to the 

 mayors of all cities lists of the electors 

 of their districts and ordering the mayors 

 to publish the lists as soon as they 

 are received. 



One hundred and thirty officers and 

 men of the Army of Pacification engaged 

 in rifle competition early in May at Cani- 

 aguey to decide the choice of members 

 of a teain to take part in the national 

 competition at Fort Sheridan this sum- 

 mer. 



Acting Governor Clark of Cainaguey 

 Province, on April 23 petitioned the Au- 

 diencia to create a criminal court at La 

 Gloria, the American colony near Nue- 

 vitas. 



Mr. Maximiliano E. Longoria has tak- 

 en possession of the office of Vice-Con- 

 sul of Spain in Holguin. 



Among the Cubans the. 

 Children belief among many is that, 

 and the left alone, their national 

 Schools. fate is sealed. The repub- 

 lic cannot exist without a 

 strong support, and that support must 

 be from the only government that ought 

 to give it. 



It will certainly take three genera- 

 tions to make citizens of worth of these 

 people. The public school system, in- 

 troduced during the first intervention, 

 has not made strides, owing to the ab- 

 ject illiteracy of the families from which 

 ordinary pupils come. People of any 

 position do not send their children to 

 the public schools, and it is believed 

 that our educational system is not 

 adapted to use in Cuba; it pre-supposes 

 too much home training as a founda- 

 tion. 



The ordinary people are marvelously 

 ignorant; women, through whom children 

 get their first training, especially so. An 

 indulgence even greater than that given to 

 American youth prevents the applica- 

 tion to work once school has begun, 

 so that only pupils who desire to learn 

 do so. At sixteen years girls leave 

 school and do nothing whatever, if their 

 fathers have means, but sit and rock all 

 day till evening. Then they don mar- 

 velous toilettes and gaze from the open 

 windows, where they can also be in- 

 spected, or walk on the streets with 

 mothers or chaperons, or drive in the 

 Malecon, where there is equal chance to 

 see and be seen. The exception to this 

 is among the families that have trav- 

 eled. — Savannah (Ga.) News. 



It is believed certain that 



Collections the $300,000 shortage in the 



to customs will grow larger 



Decrease, with the approach of the 



date for the evacuation by 



the American troops, which will leave 



a big deficit by next February. There 



is a shortage of 40 per cent, in the sugar 



crop and 50 per cent, in the tobacco 



crop, which means a bad outlook for the 



coming year. — New York Tribune. 



The customs collections for February 

 and March showed a frightful falling off 

 from the corresponding months last 

 year, as a result of President Roose- 

 velt's order of withdrawal in February 

 next; April will show a still heavier de- 

 cline for the same cause, but if the 

 troops shall now be withdrawn, the 

 customs' collections ^vill fall to almost 

 nothing, for confidence will vanish utter- 

 ly. — Havana Telegraph. 



United States Statistician Victor Olm- 

 sted and his staff of American census 

 officials left . Havana April 23 on the 

 United States transport Kilpatrick. 



