Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The proposition of Tuba rUM to raise i money for the and church state through h I Ia a groat roat lottery lotten and Cubas Cuba's condition generally are arc in receiving attention from the eastern Iros press press' Tho lan Cleveland Lender Leader I say says My The i I Cuban government o hopes hopt's to relic raie 2 Z- Z this year jear by the profits profit of an official lottery monopoly It will be fortunate for Cuba if iC this this' hope hore is blasted Birmin Birmingham ham A Age herald Age Herald e Cuba Cuba also aho hB has a deficit She acquired during the occupation man ninny many American habits Boston Roston Herald The government at Havana ana may not be perfect It must be expected to mako make somo some mistakes s. s nut But it must be given a a. chan chance e to dis dill discover dille e cover and correct its error uror and profit by tho the experience Buffalo Ruffalo Commercial What may be bt re regarded as a n semi official statement was made at Washington to the tho effect that this government o has no idt idea n. n of interfering rin lI again ain with the admin litra tion of affairs in Cuba The Tho last in intervention intervention in tt cost tho the United States something some seine thin thing like likA Intervention comes high hish and this dS government does docs not feel as thou though h it must often oten have it Washington WU Post The end of Cubas Cuba's term of life as liS an independent self governing l state is surely drawing ni nigh h. h It may not arrive e within one year roar lar nor within five possibly but the Cubans are rapidly proving that they are unable to govern rn themselves cs and when disaster conies comes there will be nothing nothing noth noth- in ing left but for some other nation tion to absorb tho the island Syracuse Post Standard Post Standard The The now new Cuban government has sent n a special envoy to all the countries s of South America and OOOO to give ve banquets with but is is unable to pay a bill of an American eon contractor tractor for for completed roads Cuban self gov may have to take another Vacation vaca vacation va va- ca cation tion yet Hartford Times It is believed that much of tho present talk about the necessity for another intervention in in Cuba by the tho United States is if inspired by American contractors who have been kept watching for payments on these costly public improvements which wore started during tho last American re regime in in the tho island Philadelphia Press Cu Cuba a is proceeding proceeding pro pro- din to demonstrate her capacity for self self government government in a variety of charI char char- characteristic ways Lotteries are aro legal legal- I Cock fi fighting is again a a. a form of sport which stirs the red blood in all sorts and conditions of Cu Cuban an men Bull fights aro are expected in the near future But tho the wiser men among tho the Cubans will remember that tho the gov government ov- ov of tho the country is responsible to the public opinion of the United States in a degree as great reat as if the island were a a. political dependency of this nation Utica Press Both for their own good and the good of their government the Cubans might better repeal this lottery lottery lottery lot lot- tery law revise their t estimates and adjust adust their expenditures to an honest in income ome A lottery like liko policy is a petty form of robbery robber and for a government to legalize such sueh sucha a thing indicates pretty loose moral standards on the part of those who should set a better example to the people t ople whose officials they are Admission to an or organ organ an recital given iven in a suburb of New r York recently was frt free e but the tho pro program am did not set seem m to attract much of an audience Moreover Moreover More More- over in addition to bein being small the audience was apathetic and the organist was as unhappy Presently a seedy looking looking look look- ing mg gentleman entered the tho church and within five minutes was clapping clamping vigor vigor- His enthusiasm speedily grew loud and ancl frequent The recital in short after so poor a beginning passed off splendidly With feelings of deep gratitude the organist accosted his seedy listener as he was leavin leaving I was delighted to st see e that you appreciated appreciated appreciated ap ap- ap- ap my playing he exclaimed warmly Appreciate was the un ungracious ungracious un- un gracious reply I I seed the rt recital cital was free frel and it was bloomin cold outside so I in out ont of it T was only clapp clapping ng to warm myself Musical JUSic l America |