New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-06-24

nate IN securing SO larg % land endoW
lment for her public schools. Whensad
united TO the Union she received tn,
sections of land in every township TO
school purposes, or one Eighteenth Of Al
the public land in the state. his mag
nifcent endowment, from sales and from
mineral land leases, has yielded 4 funs
that amounts at presentsto $11, OO0, 900
It is estimated that, when all the sources
Of income are realized upon, the perma
nent school fund Of the state will amour
to no less than $50, 900, 900. This is. in
deed magnificent sum to he devoted
solely to educational purposes ID.
The combined agencies just mentioned
have tended to put the schools of oul
state upon sound and firm basis, anG
there is little doubt but what all branch
es will 5continue tolmproye in the future
keeping pace with the rapid advance
ment of the state itself
Minnesota is still a young state among
SO MANY older sisters, but the advance
she has made and the position she has
attained thus far in matters relating to
education indicate that she is in the near
future to occupy a most prominent po-
sition among the states of the Union,
with her almost ideal system Of public
schools. Is. Is. .s E q s$.#s .. tx
Geo. W. Leary followed with an adj
dress on Cuba.
The attention and sympathy Of the
American people has recently been at
tracted to the struggles Of heighboring
state trying to free its land from the OPP
pressive yoke of a European nation. Gu
ba, the queen OF the Antilles, extending
in a crescent over seven hundred miles
along the northern troplc, was, az VIC all
know, one of the first American islands
to be discovered by Columbus. With
the exception of brief English occupa-
ton in 1862, it has been held by the
Spaniards ever since. Ruled by an agent
of the Spanish crown. vested with Span
ish powers, its fortunes have varied with
its dlfferentscaptain generals. Since La
Casas, the first and best, who tried to
free the enslaved Indians. there is none
who has distinguished himself by mild
and gentle sway. Most have con-
Quoted themselves like Asiatie despots.
They have oppressed the down-trodden
Cubans with exhorbitant taxes; they
have deprived them of all those civil,
political and religious rights which men
hold dear; they have compelled them to
support large standing armies in times
of peace. ss4...s .@>s1~. ~ ,s
We thus see people contending fol
the same rights for which tho Amcricaf
colonists commended little over cent
ury ago. Nor is the present uprising
the first :; in 1899 and in 1913 insurrec
tions occurred, and the last one, shortl,
after the close OF our civil war still LET
its traces upon the island when the pres
ent one began. 4.
SO far the Cubans have been successful
Adapting their mode of warfare to til,
nature of their country, they do not at
tack the Spaniards openly, but haras
and worry them to defeat. The climat,
is the ally of the native, andrhe foreign
soldiers die by thousands every year
With his machette alone the Cuban sol
dier is often more than a match fol Iii
opponent armed with sword and rifle
Spain would gladly sell her rebellion,
colony to England, but she fears til,
Monroe doctrine. Wish the United
States for her ally the Cuban rebels
would make short work of their oppres:
i a
sors. The Spanish government has there
fore promised sHome Rule to. the is
land, but the patriots have been too Of
ten deluded by such extorted concession
to he willing to trust themselves agail
in the hands Of their enemies.
| Spain cannot stand the drain upol
her financial and military resources mucl
longer. She is now nearly bankrupt
The government has changed scaptail
generals in the hope that more vlgor
Gus policy might5be at least emporsril
successful. But Wey Ter has found hi
matchin Maceo and Gomez, though b
has .Wreaked his yergence upon thousand
of women and children, AID has file,
the prisons Of Spain penal SCI tlement
in Africa TO oyerao wing: Millions 8
dollars worth Of property have beenSde
stroyed ysthe insurgents, and the ciloic
of peace or famine is before the Is land.
But with Havana captured the Span
ISL cause would be lost. Her weak hol
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