Cuba and her people of to-day : an account of the history and progress of the island previous to its independence; a description of its physical features; a study of its people; and, in particular, an examination of its present political conditions, its industries, natural resources, and prospects; together with information and suggestions designed to aid the prospective investor or settler . land,or diverted to the royal treasury. Compara-tively little of it was spent on local public im-provements, unless we should include works ofa military nature. Aside from the calsada, ormilitary highway,
Cuba and her people of to-day : an account of the history and progress of the island previous to its independence; a description of its physical features; a study of its people; and, in particular, an examination of its present political conditions, its industries, natural resources, and prospects; together with information and suggestions designed to aid the prospective investor or settler . land,or diverted to the royal treasury. Compara-tively little of it was spent on local public im-provements, unless we should include works ofa military nature. Aside from the calsada, ormilitary highway, road-making was lacked improvements and cities weredeficient in water supply, sewers and the country districts, public buildings andschoolhouses were far short of the necessitiesof the population. Even in late years the an-nual appropriation for educational purposeswas no more than two hundred and fifty thou-sand dollars. Aside from the riots resulting from the en-forcement of the tobacco monopoly, during theterm of Captain-General Roja, there was noactive opposition to the Government previousto 1823. In that year an abortive insurrectionfollowed the attempt to abrogate the liberalconstitution of 1812, and reestablish the old-time absolutism. Political agitation and revo-lutionary outbreaks continued from that time,stimulated by the secret societies, whose. The History of Cuba 53 branches were scattered all over the these circumstances the veiled antipathy,which had been growing between the Cubansand Spaniards, rapidly assumed the nature ofa wide breach. On the one side were rangedthe official class, the clerics, the beneficiaries ofmonopolies, and persons who derived profit invarious ways from connection with the admin-istration. On the other, were the native whiteswho sought independence, or at least latter had the sympathy and support ofpractically all the blacks, and of a large propor-tion of the colored population. In
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