12 | NORTH SHORE BREEZE | ; Feb. 9, 1917. 
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he will bring a team that can be LE. L. Martin, Miss Helen Rosen, 
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boys. Connell, the center with Attle- Antonio Trevar, Miss Fanny J. Yeaw. 
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east. Dancing will be enjoyed after ee 
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MANCHESTER BROTHERHOOD 
“WHat UncLE SAm Has Done For 
Porto Rico,” Tord By 
Byron REED. 
An island of over a million popula- 
tion of which only one-eighth of one 
percent had a chance for any sort of 
schooling was the condition of Porto 
Rico before the Spanish-American 
war. In 1910 an opportunity was 
given at least 30 percent of those of 
school age to obtain an education. 
This was a bit of the story of the pro- 
gress of the territory wrested from 
Spain by Uncle Sam as told by Byron 
Reed of Boston to the Manchester 
3rotherhood on Monday evening. 
Mr. Reed was formerly an instructor 
in the University of Porto Rico and 
previously in charge of one of the 
high schools on the island. 
It was planned to illustrate Mr. 
Reed’s lecture with the stereopticon, 
but owing to the storm Monday eve- 
ning he was unable to make proper 
connections in time to reach his office 
and obtain his slides before his train 
left for Manchester. By this apt per- 
sonal anecdotes of the people of the 
island Mr. Reed made up for the lack — 
of screen illustrations. 
He sketched the history of the is- 
land briefly from the time Columbus 
touched there on his second voyage 
across the Atlantic, the subjugation 
of the natives, the subsequent failure 
of attempts to Christianize them and 
their ultimate extermination. Previ- 
ous to the Spanish-American war 
Porto Rico had been given a constitu- 
tion and a form of government by the 
Spaniards and had held a partial elec- 
tion, but had made little progress 
towards self-government. America’s 
first act towards Porto Rico was 
shortly after the war of 1812 when 
Admiral Porter wiped out the pirates 
who were operating in the West In- 
dies and earned the gratitude of the 
Spanish authorities. After that, how- 
ever, as far as America was concern- 
ed Porto Rico was forgotten until 
Sampson sailed his fleet into San Juan 
harbor during the Spanish-American 
war and shelled the town “for target 
practice.” | Porto Rico had changed 
but little in 400 years until after the 
Spanish-American war. In fact, to- 
day, Mr. Reed said, there is little 
change in the country back a few 
miles inland. The coast cities, how- 
ever, are quite advanced. 
The first act of the Americans af- 
ter taking possession of the island 
was to release all political prisoners 
and next to establish trial by jury. A 
great deal of trouble was experienced 
in harmonizing the existing law of 
Spain with the common law of Eng- 
land and the statutes of the United 
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