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Show PRESIDENT GOMEZ' BIG JOB Notwithstanding the statement of President Gomez of Cuba, that he would soon put down the rebellion against his government, there are well-informed Americans who think the Cuban president has a really big job on his hands. One such man, who recently returned re-turned from the island, said that the chief trouble with the Cuban government govern-ment is that" it doesn't understand economics and has no desire to do so. Any person who arises with a suggestion sugges-tion to check the reckless expenditures expendi-tures is quickly squelched. More than anything else Cuba needs some one to curb this throwing away of public money and the United States will have to put some one in Cuba to do that very thing in the near future. The budget must be prepared under some systematic plan of making neces- sary expenditures for the public good and not under a general plan of distributing dis-tributing money for the benefit of !" 1- , 'J v M m v ft 'Tjf di tnose m office. The Cuban treasury Is practically empty now and the country has little to show for it. A good deal was expected from Gomez. .Now fifty-six years old, he is the son of a wealthy cattle raiser. When he was a mere lad he took up arms against Spain and demonstrated his courage and capability'. He was inaugurated inaugu-rated enthusiastically and it seemed for a time as if he would have the whole people, save a few disgruntled Moderates, at his back. But there were sore spots in the new administration that were not easily cured. |