THE CUBA R E \' 1 E W 



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Havana the Enchanted 



Col. Henry Watterson, editor of the 

 Louisz-ille Courier-Journal, has this to say 

 about Havana in a recent issue of his 

 journal : 



" "See Xaples, and die,' says the Italian 

 proverb, 'see Paris, and live,' says the 

 French : but 'go to Havana and be en- 

 chanted and have a good time.' say we ; 

 it is nearer, it is easier reached and it 

 costs less. 



"From December to April Cuba has the 

 most perfect climate conceivable. Doubt- 

 less INladeira and some of the isles of the 

 South Pacific have as good. But they are 

 too far distant. Cuba is next door — just 

 across the way — whose queenship not only 

 of the Antilles, but of all the insular groups 

 in all the seas, has never been and can 

 never be questioned." 



failure. It makes no thoughtful citizens 

 at once striving for their own and the 

 public good. It makes idlers who think 

 logically about nothing and care nothing 

 about the state if only they may have a 

 plenty. It makes not supporters of the 

 republic, but dependents on the republic — 

 men who, if their ranks are long enough 

 recruited, will carrj- down with them the 

 free Cuba for which they all so valiantly 

 clamored until the United States stepped 

 in and secured it for them. The lottery 

 was established, because Cuba thought she 

 needed money and ignored the fact that 

 her greatest need, as it always will be, is 

 for men." 



Cuba Xeeds ]\Ien 



"The lottery is an evil in Cuba." says the 

 Columbus (O.) Dispatch, '^"because it does 

 not make, but destro3"s the manhood that 

 is necessary to a successful republic. It 

 teaches men to rely upon chance, rather 

 than on their own honest exertion. It 

 makes no skilled workmen. Instead it- 

 makes loafers who are to-da3" flushed with 

 success and to-morrow depressed with 



To Abandon Bahia Honda 



A presidential decree to be issued orders 

 payment to land holders who gave up their 

 property at the time a United States naval 

 station was projected at Bahia Honda, on 

 the north coast in Pinar del Rio Province. 



It is rumored that this property then 

 will be transferred for its equivalent in 

 lands surrounding the Guantanamo station, 

 it being the intention of the \\'ashington 

 government to enlarge the latter, which 

 then will be fortified, while that at Bahia 

 Honda will be abandoned altogether, says 

 the Xew York Herald. 



The cartoon on page 11 gives the Cuban 

 view of the transfer. 



El Baseball Ciibano 

 Liborio: A Jose Miguel le cogieron el flay de la reeleccion y Mister Taft lo ha sacado out en 



primera. 



When President Taft visited the Guantanamo naval station last month, it was believed that President 



Gomez's re-election \vas one of the subjects discussed with Secretary Sanguily. The Cuban artist's 



idea of President Taft's views on the subject is expressed in the cartoon. 



