THE 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1911, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume IX 



SEPTEMBER. 1911 



Number 10 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



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 NEW YO 

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TWO EDITORS DEPORTED SPAIN TO TAKE UP THE MATTER PRESIDENT 



GOMEZ' LETTER TO GENERAL MENOCAL AND THE REPLY 



President Gomez signed a 

 Forcibly decree on August 20th ex- 

 Deported pelling, as pernicious for- 

 eigners, Jose ]\Iaria A'illa- 

 verde, managing editor of the administra- 

 tion organ, Cuba, and his nephew, ^Manuel 

 Villaverde, a member of the editorial staff 

 of the paper, and ordering that thej- be 

 deported aboard the Spanish steamship 

 "Alfonso XIIL" 



L^pon the issuance of the decree the po- 

 lice surrounded the house, secured both 

 men and placed them aboard a steamer 

 which sailed for Spain at 5 p. m. the same 

 day. 



This action of the president, is said to 

 be unprecedented, as the Cuban constitu- 

 tion does not invest in the president the 

 authority to order anj^ person deported, 

 although President Palma deported an 

 Italian of the name of Perinino on the 

 very same grounds. Perinino was denied 

 entrance to a Central American port and 

 was returned to Cuba and permitted to 

 land at Santiago. He has been in Cuba 

 ever since and is now a prominent liberal 

 politician. 



The elder Villaverde was one of the 

 most prominent Spaniards in Cuba. For 

 many years he was managing editor of the 

 Diario de la Mariiia. 



The sons of Villaverde, who are Cuban 

 born, announced their intention to con- 

 tinue the publication of the Cuba and to 

 resolutely pursue the policy of their 

 father, who has persistenly attacked the 

 government. 



A presidential decree denounces the 

 Villaverdes, who are Spaniards, as per- 

 nicious foreigners, actively hostile to the 

 Cuban government, and hence subject to 

 deportation. 



On August 27th it was stated that the 

 Spanish foreign office had instructed the 

 Spanish minister in Havana not to take 

 any action in the matter of the deporta- 

 tion of the Senors Villaverde which is 

 a violation of the treaty of Paris, under 

 the provisions of which Spain must treat 

 with the United States, which was the 

 other part}- to the treaty. 



It is believed that the outcome will be 

 an agreement to annul the deportation. 



The Havana report is mistaken in 

 assuming that Spain must look to the 

 United States for redress under the treaty, 

 says the Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch. The 

 third of the five declarations, echoing the 

 Piatt amendment, which were adopted by 

 the Cuban constitutional convention ac- 

 cepted "in its entirety the Treaty of 

 Paris, especially those clauses affecting 

 the rights which international law imposes 

 for the protection of life and property 

 substituting itself for the United States 

 in the pledge which the}^ assumed." 



Therefore, if Spain desires to make am^ 

 protest against the unwarranted deporta- 

 tion of Spanish subjects from Cuba, it 

 must address itself to Havana and not to 

 Washington. On the other hand, the 

 United States has the right to intervene 

 for the discharge of the obligations placed 

 upon this nation b}' the Treaty of Paris 

 and assumed by Cuba. If Spain protests, 

 Cuba will be wise to heed it rather than 

 invite another agitation for American 

 intervention on the ground that Gomez 

 has violated treaty obligations inherited 

 from the United States. 



Cuba takes from the United States only 

 13.78 per cent of its total annual import 

 of $9,000,000 worth of cotton goods. 



