. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 18 THE CUBA REVI E W Conditions in Cuba. Bishop Warren A. Candler in a signed article in the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal, reviews conditions in Cuba. He writes from Hav- ana just before the inauguration. Among other comment, the following is important. The sanitary conditions of Cuba have improved. Havana is to-day a cleaner and healthier city than Atlanta;—its health record is better than a number of our American cities. Yet I remember that when I first saw the place its sanitation was so bad that a stranger who came with- in its gates took his life in his ha
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 18 THE CUBA REVI E W Conditions in Cuba. Bishop Warren A. Candler in a signed article in the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal, reviews conditions in Cuba. He writes from Hav- ana just before the inauguration. Among other comment, the following is important. The sanitary conditions of Cuba have improved. Havana is to-day a cleaner and healthier city than Atlanta;—its health record is better than a number of our American cities. Yet I remember that when I first saw the place its sanitation was so bad that a stranger who came with- in its gates took his life in his hands. Decreased poverty and good crops, he says further, will promote contentment and quiet among the Cuban people. This year the seasons have been good and the yield of cane and tobacco promises to be extra- ordinary. The new government starts ofif, therefore, with this great advantage and gives ground for hope that the government may be stable and enjoy a good measure of success. On the other hand, there are facts which give rise to misgivings as to the outcome. The new governemnt is a coalition gov- ernment—and in all lands and times coali- tions are notoriously unreliable. The fac- tions contend with each other in the Con- gress, and of course the representatives of the defeated party of the Conservatives sit by to take advantage of the strife existing between them. These conditions furnish a tine chance for a row over the distribution of the offices. Cuba has no Bolivar, says the Bishop, no Juarez, no Porfirio Diaz! Cuban leaders are not statesmen, but politicians. When a country has no great leader, or leaders, the times become the fecund mother of politi- cians who grasp at power without the wis- dom to wield it for the welfare of the peo- ple, and at such times since the politicians are numerous and all of a size they are lia- ble to make a mess of public interests in their struggles for place and pelf. About twenty-five promintnt men of Havana assembled recently for
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