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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Camaguey Masons Take Royal Arch Degree in Havana: Owing to there beinj 

 no local lodge of Royal Arch Masons in Camaguey, a party of six candidates wen 

 given the work by Island Lodge Chapter No. 1. After the work a banquet was helc 

 at the Hotel Sevilla. 



The Cuban Lottery 



Alleged illegal collection of nearly $10,- 

 000,000 a year from the Cuban people 

 through violations of the national lottery 

 law was ended July 1 by Presidential 

 decree. 



Pointing to the wide variance between 

 present methods of conducting the lottery 

 and those set forth in the laws of July 7, 

 1909, and July 9, 1912, which establish 

 and regulate the institution, President 

 Zayas ordered reforms intended to remove 

 the lottery from the category of political 

 spoils. 



The decree embodies recommendations 

 made by Major Gen. E. H. Crowder in one 

 of the ten memoranda he recently pre- 

 sented in his campaign to secure honest 

 and efficient collection and disbursement 

 of Federal revenues. 



Literary Prizes 



In the literary competition organized 

 under the auspices of the Liga Patriotica 

 Argentina in which writers and poets of 

 all the Latin American nations took part, 

 the second prize, 2,000 pesos and a gold 

 medal, was awarded to Seiior Luis Rod- 

 riguez Embil, consul general of Cuba in 

 Germany, for his "Poem of Love and 

 Death." The third prize, 1,000 pesos and 

 a gold medal, was also won by a Cuban, 

 Sefior Gustavo Sanchez Galarraga ; the title 

 of his poem was "Hymn to America." The 

 first prize was not awarded. 



Cuban Potatoes to the United States 



The Cuban Bureau of Vegetable Sani- 

 tation of the Department of Agriculture 

 has secured the permission of the Federal 

 Horticultural Commission of Washington 

 to permit the entrance of Cuban potatoes 

 into the United States when accompanied 

 by a certificate issued bv the Bureau. 



Relations with Cuba 



The June bulletin issued by the National 

 City Bank of New York gives some in- 

 teresting views on our relations with Cuba, 

 which we quote below: 



The increased duty on sugar for which 

 the farmers' bloc is contending, if finally 

 adopted, will be a direct out-of-pocket 

 expense to all farmers, as well as all wage- 

 earners, in the country, but the farmers 

 who do not grow sugar beets are supposed 

 to be compensated by the duties on com, 

 wheat and other products, most of which 

 are being exported in quantities on the 

 basis of world prices. Cuba is commer- 

 cially almost a part of the United States. 

 There is no reason why trade relations with 

 the Island may not be considered as of the 

 same mutually compensatory and beneficial 

 character as the trade relations between 

 Minnesota or California and the other 

 states of the Union. The difference in 

 climate makes an exchange of products 

 naturally advantageous. The climate and 

 soil make sugar in Cuba with less labor, 

 as everybody agrees, than it can be made 

 in the United States. Other important 

 agricultural products can be grown to 

 better advantage in the United States. 

 Cuba is without coal and has few manu- 

 facturing industries. There is a natural 

 exchange of sugar and other tropical prod- 

 ucts grown on the Island for flour, meats, 

 clothing, shoes, steel, machinery and other 

 manufactures. Cuba took $30,000,000 

 worth of cotton goods from us in the last 

 fiscal year, $15,000,000 worth of shoes, 

 $20,000,000 worth of railway equipment, 

 and so on. In short, it is a reciprocal 

 relationship, no different in practical char- 

 acter from that with Minnesota and Cali- 

 fornia. The rest of the states do not 

 merely tolerate Minnesota and California 

 to help the two states, but rejoice in the 

 mutual advantages accruing all around. 

 There is no reason why natural trade with 

 Cuba should be regarded in any other 

 light. 



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