Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-25
CUBANS ARE LIBERAL.
Teachers who Were Guests of Har-
ward Made a Favorable
impression.

fortnight. have shown While III the
United States that they are not narrow
relgonists. Presumably they represent
Il fair type OF the best i'll their island.
AS such they indicate that the new Cuba
is to be tolerant. liberal and progressive.
For proof of this, let it be stated that
these maestros, women as well Us men,
reared i'll u wholly Catholic country.
entered Harvard college and the social
set Of Cambridge, and got into Catholic
and Protestant places OF Worship and at
all times and lii all places appeared mt
home; as ready to respond to one cali
as to another: absolutely wanting in
sectarianism; aud as firmly declaring for
free Church as for free State for
their native island. When one stops to
think of it. this is Il remarkable showing,
aud it may easily be doubted whether
Protestant teachers. with sprinkling of
Catholics among them, could go to Haya-
ma and show equal breadth
\ Priest Came with Them.
These teachers brought priest from
Cuba with them. But they took care
that he was Cuban born. He is Rev
F. Desiderio Mesmier. He is rector of
Dolores church and Canon of the
cathedral, Santiago. He proved the
spiritual union between Catholic Cuba
and Catholic America. The teachers
hold him in high esteem. partly for his
personal worth, and partly because he
was Cuban fighter-a lieutenant on the
staff of Gen. Gomez. While the teachers
studied geography, pedagogy history and
kindergarten, Canon Mesmier studied
church conditions, not alone Catholic
but the many different kinds i'll which
Boston superlatively abounds He in
CURED after the Christian Endeayor, the
Christian Scientists and the Epworth
league, and had not been in Cambridge a
hnfnrn ba Lpa -.
theological tenets of the congregations
whose churches are found nearest the
Harvard campus.
Professionalism is not an old product of
Cuba, and yet nearly 100 of the teachers
announced themselves Protestants. chief
" Baptlsts, because Baptists have made
larger progress on the island than any
other religious body of modern times.
Besides the nearly 100 Protestant teach
ers there We're several hundred who adj
mtted themselves to be little more than
nominal Catholics; had been baptized in
che church, but rarely attended service
or went TO confession. This was true
among the men, and it is stated, not to
snow the weakness of the Catholic hold
upon them. but the similarity between
conditions IN Cuba and in the United
States. All attended service while i'm
cambridge, because there was much TO
see in the churches. but many admitted
they had not been to church so regularly
IN years.
While in Cambridge the Cuban teach
ers responded to church invitations with
equal heartineSS, whether Catholic or
ff0testant. For example ON one Sunday
almost exactly the same number attend
ed Holy Cross cathedral and the Old
1ambrdge Baptist church. \ great
number of them went to early masses in
IT. Peters, located near the Harvard
campus, but a great number went also,
lqter III the day. to all of the show
churches of BostonTrinity. the Old
south Paul Revere's Old North Ire
mont Temple and Park Square. The
huge metal badges which weighted down
lhe lapels of the mems light coats and the
"ohens neck ribbons were to be seen
everywhere on Sundays. If buff covers
81 the Spanish-English "Oraclones Cato
HcaS' we're conspicuous in the morning
30 were the illustrated programmes got,
Ten up for the special service held on the
occasion of the visit of DIR. A. T. DiaZ.
the pastor of Il 200G-membership BaptiSr
church in Havana.
Boston Catholics Cordial.
The Catholic societies of Boston, act
lHS together. did the handsome thing bv
lhelr co-religionists. Not only were
members provided to care for Harvard
nan the headquarters of the women but
l9ey arranged innumerable courtesies in
GUIDING visits to different churches. to
historic religious places, to social attrac-
IONS, and to institutions where the
tuufcn comes into the best touch with
?H'ehle, with ImpecuniOuS. with improy-
WVut, with hayward humanity That is
WINE Harvard taught secular economy.
boston and Cambridge Catholics taught
tAurch economy: both or immense prac-
utaI value if made use of upon the
ie,Irn of the teachers to their homes
or the first three weeks the Protest
3HiS or Boston and Cambridge held aloof
desiring TO avoid any possible appearance
~ Tue introduction of religious topics AT
.le end of that time Pastor Diaz of Ha-
ana arrived and was asked by the C;t-
1aH PROTESTANT teachers if Cambridge
ere wholly Catholic city. His coming
hanged affairs materially. and the Gu
udh Ifotestants soon learned that there
we're Protestants in Cambridge who
WINE they were not proselyters, were as
I{>irous that Cuba should have religious
,::atfty as. that it should have political
liberty. From that time onward there
was the most delightful freedom and the
unahs learned to know Cambridge and
hnston as they really are.
oh one side there were such men As
IT. 1atlos de PedroSo, who. represented
~ Havana institute and DR.. Alfredo
JiioIuhez' the only representative Of the
HiNaha university. both Of them such
GnSlStent Catholics that they supposed
ON "ther Cubans Were Catholics also and
dressed establishment upon learning
nat there were PrOteStantS in their par
~ And there We're also DIR. Leop0ldo
H1z Iamdyo, who wore a Christian En-
"@Ior badge Immediately below his
aeHer's badge, and belongs when at
'Ie 70 the Baptist church at Santiago
GI ilr. Jose NJ. Cabrera Of Cardenas
~" gave twenty-minute address in
-aAlSh from the pulpit Of the Old Cam
lS!%e Baptist church to a congregation
"0ieA filled every pew and most of the
'itN' and included above three hundred
MS fellow teachers, chiefly mcu
Do Not Lose Caste.
Cil was the universal testimony that in
l"a under present conditions Catholics
WIG turn Protestant do not lose caste
sIaiiy. 1t was also shown that those
,S-!- were Protestant were trusted by