. The Cuba review. THE CUBA R E \' 1 E W i::; 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 distan
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA R E \' 1 E W i::; 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 ; 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 ; Cuba Xeeds ]\Ien "The lottery is an evil in ; 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
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