tHE CUBA Review 



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Cubans Want Their Own Government. — 

 Dr. Raimundo Cabrera, editor of the daily 

 paper El Tiempo of Havana and director 

 of Cuba and America, a monthly review, 

 was in New York a few weeks ago and was 

 interviewed by a New York Sun represen- 

 tative. Dr. Cabrera said that Cuba trusts 

 the United States. 



"No matter what you may hear about 

 discussions and disagreements," he said, "it 

 is my opinion that Cuba will go ahead with 

 its own government. It was not educated 

 by Spain so that it could take up the bur- 

 den of self-government when the time 

 came. America was prepared for self-gov- 

 ernment by England. But there is no doubt 

 that with the protection of the United 

 States Cuba will prove equal to any prob- 

 lems with which It will have to deal. 



"The great majority of Cubans are 

 anxious to maintain their own government, 

 and a good government," he said further. 

 "They wish to solve their difficulties in the 

 most honorable fashion, with the assurance 

 that if this course is followed the United 

 States will maintain its noble promise. Our 

 schools, which were founded by the Amer- 

 icans upon the plan of American schools, 

 now have over 4,000 teachers. Under the 

 Spanish there were only 700 teachers, as 

 the Spanish hated to spend money for edu- 

 cational purposes. English is taught in 

 many of the public schools. All my chil- 

 dren and grandchildren speak English. 

 Some of the rich families employ teachers 

 in their own homes, and some of the con- 

 servative Spaniards send their children up 

 here to learn the language." 



The "Maine" in Service. — John O'Rourke, 

 the engineer, says he can raise the "Maine" 

 and put her back into active service. This 

 idea, says the Detroit (Mich.) Times, 

 seems repulsive, as "it has lain so long in 

 the mud of the harbor, with its freight of 

 dead Americans, that if it were again put 

 into service it would be looked upon as a 

 sort of coffin ship, and others besides sail- 

 ors, who are known to be very superstitious, 

 would hesitate to accept duty upon her." 



A Desirable Land. — Cuba has rich fields 

 adapted to the production of sugar, and 

 the Americans would like to till them. The 

 island is particularly suited to the growth 

 of tobacco and to the production of vege- 

 tables "out of season" for the American 

 market. It is rich in iron ore, hard woods 

 and other natural products, and, in addi- 

 tion to its desirability on specific grounds, 

 a host of the American people have a 

 strong desire, expressed in the phrase 

 "manifest destiny," to seize all valuable 

 real estate which may be readily acquired. 

 — Phila. Ledger. 



Bulk of Cotton Goods from, England. — - 

 Cuba gives a thirty per cent preference 

 to the United States on cotton fabrics and 

 a forty per cent preference on knit goods, 

 and yet only ten per cent of such articles 

 are imported from America, which is only 

 a hundred miles or so from Cuba. The 

 l)ulk of these goods is imported from Eu- 

 ropean countries, several thousand miles 

 away, and England alone gets fifty per 

 cent of the trade. Mr. Clark is of the 

 belief that we could sell more such articles 

 in that quarter if we took greater pains 

 to consult Cuban tastes. — W. A. G. Clark's 

 Report to the United States. 



Canada and Cuba. — Canada, in our trade 

 exchanges, is worth what a thousand Cubas 

 ever could be to us. For Cuba sells to 

 us and takes the proceeds to go and spend 

 with somebody else. The more we have 

 traded with Cuba the heavier has become 

 the balance against us. We can and do 

 buy more, but we can sell relatively no 

 more in such transactions. We spend 

 four, five and six dollars in Cuba, and 

 the Cubans spend one, or a fraction of 

 one, with us. — Nezv York Press. 



The Cuban Revolt. — Congratulations are 

 due to the Republic of Cuba for the very 

 prompt and efficient manner in which it has 

 stamped out an insurrectionary movement 

 which might easily have grown to alarming 

 proportions. Cuba has given hostages to 

 fortune and is entitled to a long and in- 

 vigorating rest ; the ignominious collapse of 

 this last revolt encourages the hope that she 

 can and will take care of herself. — Louis- 

 ville (Ky) Times. 



Uprisings in Cuba. — Each day of the es- 

 tablished Cuban government's life adds to 

 the strength of that government. President 

 Gomez has faced some serious problems and 

 difficulties since his inauguration. He has 

 handled them effectively.' The American 

 people will regard all stories (regarding up- 

 risings) from Cuba with extreme caution. 

 Faith in Cuba's ability to govern herself 

 is in no sense upset by them. — Boston 

 (Mass.) Advertiser. 



Character Remains Unchanged. — Com- 

 menting on the establishment in the out- 

 skirts of Havana of a high resort for 

 Monte Carlo practises, the Rochester (N. 

 Y.) Chronicle says: 



"It is a big but comparatively easy job 

 to clean up Cuba politically and in a san- 

 itary way; but the human factor in the 

 situation, as it exists in that island, is a 

 problem whose solution has not yet been 

 discovered." 



