New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
NATIVE CHARACTERISTICS.
Mr. Pepper spoke THE Natives Of Cubs
and Porto Rico" saying in part:

Mr.. Pepper spoke THE Natives Of Cuba
and Porto Rico' saying in part:
Some Of US w,o had known Cuba in the days
Of the Spanish troops were rendering it charred
everywhere the evidences of recuperaton. All the
planters were ruined and few few of them were able
estates Yet the sugar crop this year is larger
in Havana mas anS the railway ali hs
island. knowing the poverty OF resources have
Many Of them them told me that they hardly knew how
managed to do It They wanted their homes again
and they wanted some of the comforts of life
without incentive to shake off tropical lethargy.
9ad ia ii give
We're aroused from their apathy. but the recital
Can We forecast the future from these, scattered
instances? Proba bly, the phosSphIsg her Will say no
gibaro can be made to want more to eat, to desire
matching. can develop an ambition to provide for
his housewife moe kitchen utensils than the single
chairs for his humble S dwelng' to emulate his
wife and daughters and something besides ragged
Shirt for himself, In my minds eye also see the
time when through .ome neighbor's example he will
school and his pride will cause him to exert him
more garments than has been the custom in the
2 tropics These ar homely ustratons M alto and may
ssmulation apply to million people and let the in
tain then that tht ease of supplying the bare needs
OF existence in warm country will clog all the
incentives and the stimulus to labor?
While the Cuban character for a century was
ment cannot be formed of its constructive and ad-
ministrative capacity by trial of two or three
lack of training in political education and of prac-
not be corrected in the experience OF a twelve.
month. It is easy, to point out the defects and
and notifications in the Cuban Character No
great exerton of the intellect is required to sneer
racial weaknesses which patent and which
proclaim themselves But human progress Is not
the virtues not by exploiting the vices of people.
In their present experiment 10 realize their aspra-
not the strong hand, but the helping hand. of the
Following the topic assigned to me, have sought
to conine myself CLOSELY 70 the natives of Spanish
Mes ha ands S %hh 5e the
is most intimately concerned would not be . un-
this country. for there will be an emigration and
beGefad by the % presence and the example OF many
Americans who will settle IN the isl land Yet for
witch is indicated, will be from spain This win
reinforce the existing two-thirds OF the population
rnent of the Castilian language, of Spanish tradi-
tbinSing and methods of living In other words 1t
renews and refreshes the SPANISH strain among the
people this must be kept in mind.
Colonel Hilary A. Herbert former Secretary
Of the Navy and Provost Charles c. Harrison.
Of the University of Pennsylvania. presided at
the sessions Colonel Herb condemned the
Fifteenth Amendment and universal suffrage as
the nineteenth century mistakes Of the republic.
He said it wrong to gi- the negro vote
Immediately after emancipation, because 1t re-
suited in a "solid South" without any stimulat-
ing political rivalry. and developed a feeling of
racial antipathy in the generations. that
never existed between ex-slave and master.
DR.. Winston spoke on The Relation Of the
Whites to the Negroes, and DR. Du Boiss topic
THE Relation Of the Negroes to thu
Whites