THE CUBA R E V I E VV 



Machinery imported into 



To Cuba to be installed at a 



Avoid Cash sugar mill pays no duty, but 



Deposits importers are required to 



deposit with the custom 



house an amount equal to the duty. At 



the end of six months, if a certificate is 



produced, the money is returned. 



What is now being sought by Secretary 

 of the Treasury Machado, is, to relieve 

 the importers of machinery from making 

 this deposit, as it only means the accumu- 

 lation of large amounts of idle money in 

 the custom house treasury. 



The proposed plan is that the importers, 

 instead of furnishing a cash equivalent for 

 the duty, may give a bond or other similar 

 security. 



No hay mas re medio 



In view of the attack on General Guerra and 

 the testimony concerning a wholesale plot 

 against prominent citizens, La Lucha's car- 

 toonist shows the only way out. 



In an article written for 



Is Tired the New York World re- 



of cently. Col. Francisco Lo- 



Revolutions pez-Leiva, Secretary of 



War for Cuba, says among 



other things : 



"Up to recently it was an easy matter to 

 conspire, with an object of overthrowing 

 the government, but to-daj^ that is a very 

 hazardous undertaking, owing to the well- 

 trained disciplined rural guards. Of all the 

 conspirators who have taken arms" against 

 the government, every one has been im- 

 mediately arrested. Among these are 

 Estenoz, Cortes, Acevedo and Miniet. My 

 country is tired of revolutions and all the 

 inhabitants wish for peace and tranquility. 



With regard to the race question in Cuba, 

 the downfall of the Estenoz party and the 

 promulgation of the Morua amendment, 

 which declares all political parties founded 

 on race principles illegal, have stopped all 

 further fear of trouble on that score. The 

 v/hole country is supporting President 

 Gomez, and he not only finds himself strong 

 in the moral support given him by public 

 opinion, but he has in his hands sufficient 

 means to maintain peace and order. The 

 period of revolutions is a thing of the 



Dr. Antonio Perez, presi- 

 Great dent of the Cuban Senate, 



Results remarked recently in a 

 Expected newspaper interview at 

 Paris that Cubans enter- 

 tained very large expectations of the good 

 results which they would reap from the 

 opening of the Panama Canal. They 

 looked for an enormous growth not only 

 in Havana, but also, and more especially, 

 at Cienfuegos, where the majority of ves- 

 sels approaching and leaving the canal, 

 they believe, will call. 



Dr. Perez and Minister Montoro laugh- 

 ingly pointed to each other as illustrations 

 of the new era of good feeling in Cuba. 

 The former is a member of the Liberal 

 Party, the latter a conservative. 



"Yet, you see," said the president of the 

 Cuban Senate, "we get along in perfect 

 harmony. So it is in general between the 

 opposing political leaders in Cuba. They 

 and the people are thoroughly tired of 

 disturbances, and we are fully determined 

 to preserve order and devote ourselves 

 solely to the building up of the country." 



Brigadier Gerardo Machado, Inspector General de 

 las Fuer^as Armadas y General en Jefe Interino 

 del Ejercito Permanente. 



— From La Discnsion. 



