. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . deceit. She granted toCuba the liberties of Puerto Rico, which enjoyednone. Persistent Misrule. On this deceitful ground was laid the newsituation, throughout which has run a currentof falsehood and hypocrisy. Spain, whose mindhad not changed, hastened to change the name ofthings. The Captain-General was called Governor-General. The royal decrees took the name ofauthorizations. The commercial monopoly ofSpain was named coasting trade. The right ofbanishment was transformed into the law ofvagran
. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . deceit. She granted toCuba the liberties of Puerto Rico, which enjoyednone. Persistent Misrule. On this deceitful ground was laid the newsituation, throughout which has run a currentof falsehood and hypocrisy. Spain, whose mindhad not changed, hastened to change the name ofthings. The Captain-General was called Governor-General. The royal decrees took the name ofauthorizations. The commercial monopoly ofSpain was named coasting trade. The right ofbanishment was transformed into the law ofvagrancy. The brutal attacks of defencelesscitizens were called componte. The abolitionof constitutional guarantees became the law ofpublic order. Taxation without the consent orknowledge of the Cuban peple was changed intothe law of estimates (budget) voted by the rep-resentatives of Spain, that is, of EuropeanSpain. The painful lesson of the ten-year war hadbeen entirely lost on Spain. Instead of inaugu-rating a redeeming policy that would heal therecent wounds, allay public anxiety, and quench o 13. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 211 the thirst for justice felt by the people, who weredesirous to enjoy their natural rights, the Me-tropolis, while lavish in promises of reform, per-sisted in carrying on unchanged its old and craftysystem, the groundwork of which continues to bethe same, namely: To exclude every nativeCuban from every office that could give him anyeffective influence and intervention in publicaffairs; the ungovernable exploitation of thecolonists labor for the benefit of Spanishcommerce and Spanish bureaucracy, both civiland military. To carry out the latter purposeit was necessary to maintain the former at anycost. A Story of IJVrongfS. A full statement of the grievances enduredby the Cuban people during the last seventy-fiveyears would fill a volume of no small size. Dur-ing 300 years Cuba was absolutely neglected bySpain. Two centuries after the discovery of theisland the popu
Size: 1246px × 2006px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidcubafightfor, bookyear1896
