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Cuba For Cubans Says Cuban Students

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Day
14
Month
November
Year
1902
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Public Domain
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CUBA FOR CUBANS SAYS CUBAN STUDENTS

Luis Marino Perez, a Cuban student in the University, lectured to the American students Monday night. His subject was "Cuba; the New Nation." Speaking of a young American's chances in Cuba Mr. Perez said:

"I can explain it this way. Suppose an American should start a newspaper in Cuba and run it after American methods. He would succeed better than the Cuban papers, but suppose he should work for a paper which was run by Cubans. His American methods would then fail because of the differences in methods and personality of the two people.

 Though this is only his second year in the University, Mr. Perez is ready to graduate. He has made up two extra years' work in three short summer school sessions. He pronounces his name "Pereth."

Speaking of his people, whom he expects to help uplift, Mr. Perez said:

"They are a southern people and they love leisure. You would call them lazy, but that is not the case. The people of the south are not as active as the people of the north, and my people love leisure, but they are not the idle, lazy, slothful oriental sort of people.

"Above everything else the Cuban people are a nation, though there are only a million and a quarter of them,and though part of them are blacks. Nowhere else in the world do blacks and whites live together with such harmony."

Other salient points of the young Cuban's speech concerned the Platt amendment. giving the United States power to intervene in Cuba.

"If the United States intervenes." said Perez, "there will certainly be a struggle between the two governments. I cannot conceive that any Cuban government would be so weak and corrupt as to allow armed intervention. No Cuban would assert that he was a Cuban without also asserting that independence was his highest ambition."

 

Telegraphic reports of Michigan-Chicago game will be given at the Athens theatre next Saturday afternoon while the game is going on in Chicago. At first it seemed advisable to have the reports only at Ferry Field in connection with the Ann Arbor-Benton Harbor high school game but there are a good many, especially business men, who will not have time to go out to the game but who would like to get the reports as soon as possible.