A History of the Cuban Republic: A Study in Hispanic American PoliticsMacmillan, 1927 - 685 pages |
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... Oriente , is quite rugged in parts . The other four provinces are not so completely flattened out as popularly supposed . Mount Tarquino on the southern coast , not far from Santi- ago ( the capital of Oriente ) , rises sheer up from ...
... Oriente , is quite rugged in parts . The other four provinces are not so completely flattened out as popularly supposed . Mount Tarquino on the southern coast , not far from Santi- ago ( the capital of Oriente ) , rises sheer up from ...
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... Oriente , pay a visit to Santiago . Some others make the trip by train from Havana . En route the most fre- quent stop is Camagüey , where the traveler who has begun his journey on the English - controlled United Railways pro- ceeds ...
... Oriente , pay a visit to Santiago . Some others make the trip by train from Havana . En route the most fre- quent stop is Camagüey , where the traveler who has begun his journey on the English - controlled United Railways pro- ceeds ...
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... Oriente is reached that one sees any mountains at all , and then they appear only in the dim distance until shortly be- fore Santiago . The human angle of the trip is perhaps more interesting than the scenery . Americans and well - to ...
... Oriente is reached that one sees any mountains at all , and then they appear only in the dim distance until shortly be- fore Santiago . The human angle of the trip is perhaps more interesting than the scenery . Americans and well - to ...
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... Oriente that Havana is a " parasite . " As one man told the writer , with no little heat , Havana has a population about six times that of Santiago , but gets fifteen times as great an appropriation for sanita- tion . Moreover , it ...
... Oriente that Havana is a " parasite . " As one man told the writer , with no little heat , Havana has a population about six times that of Santiago , but gets fifteen times as great an appropriation for sanita- tion . Moreover , it ...
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... Oriente for that matter , -are black , or partly black . In Havana the negro is said to possess political , but not social , equality . In Santiago he is more nearly on an equal social plane with the whites than in most parts of the ...
... Oriente for that matter , -are black , or partly black . In Havana the negro is said to possess political , but not social , equality . In Santiago he is more nearly on an equal social plane with the whites than in most parts of the ...
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Page 48 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.
Page 124 - Resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 39 - ... an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population; its situation midway betwen our southern coast and the island of St.
Page 124 - Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Page 36 - That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba, and inscribe on it a ne plus ultra as to us in that direction.
Page 427 - ... the Commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands, and the measures adopted should be made to conform to their customs, their habits and even their prejudices, to the fullest extent consistent with the accomplishment of the indispensable requisites of just and effective government.
Page 130 - United •States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 125 - That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof , as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
Page 124 - That the government of Cuba will execute, and, as far as necessary, extend the plans already devised or other plans to be mutually agreed upon, for the sanitation of the cities of the Island, to the end that a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases may be prevented, thereby assuring protection to the people and commerce of Cuba, as well as to the commerce of the Southern ports of the United States and the people residing therein.
Page 120 - November, in the year 1900, to frame and adopt a constitution for the people of Cuba, and, as a part thereof, to provide for and agree with the government of the United States upon the relations to exist between that government and the government of Cuba...