. The Cuba review. No hay mas re medio In view of the attack on General Guerra and the testimony concerning a wholesale plot against prominent citizens, La Lucha's car- toonist shows the only way out. In an article written for Is Tired the New York World re- of cently. Col. Francisco Lo- Revolutions pez-Leiva, Secretary of War for Cuba, says among other things : "Up to recently it was an easy matter to conspire, with an object of overthrowing the government, but to-daj^ that is a very hazardous undertaking, owing to the well- trained disciplined rural guards. Of all the conspirators who h


. The Cuba review. No hay mas re medio In view of the attack on General Guerra and the testimony concerning a wholesale plot against prominent citizens, La Lucha's car- toonist shows the only way out. In an article written for Is Tired the New York World re- of cently. Col. Francisco Lo- Revolutions pez-Leiva, Secretary of War for Cuba, says among other things : "Up to recently it was an easy matter to conspire, with an object of overthrowing the government, but to-daj^ that is a very hazardous undertaking, owing to the well- trained disciplined rural guards. Of all the conspirators who have taken arms" against the government, every one has been im- mediately arrested. Among these are Estenoz, Cortes, Acevedo and Miniet. My country is tired of revolutions and all the inhabitants wish for peace and tranquility. With regard to the race question in Cuba, the downfall of the Estenoz party and the promulgation of the Morua amendment, which declares all political parties founded on race principles illegal, have stopped all further fear of trouble on that score. The v/hole country is supporting President Gomez, and he not only finds himself strong in the moral support given him by public opinion, but he has in his hands sufficient means to maintain peace and order. The period of revolutions is a thing of the Dr. Antonio Perez, presi- Great dent of the Cuban Senate, Results remarked recently in a Expected newspaper interview at Paris that Cubans enter- tained very large expectations of the good results which they would reap from the opening of the Panama Canal. They looked for an enormous growth not only in Havana, but also, and more especially, at Cienfuegos, where the majority of ves- sels approaching and leaving the canal, they believe, will call. Dr. Perez and Minister Montoro laugh- ingly pointed to each other as illustrations of the new era of good feeling in Cuba. The former is a member of the Liberal Party, the latter a conservative. "Yet, you see,&qu


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