Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-22

of Spain Thereafter he cast his lot
With the revoIu'iouists. giving them
everything be could obtain and hFht-
Ing with them whenever tho opportun-
ity offered His energy and his devo-
ton 10 the cause soon raised him 10
the leadership. He FIRST became a
deputy and finally president Of the pro-
visional republic n was a migratory
AFFAIR. this government. moving It's
headquarters rs often as the enemy
| compelled Many Of tho native Gu
bans recognized g.. however. and look
ed on Palma as their chief with Gen
eral Maxine Gomez as his secretary Of
war.
one day while ON me march with a
body Of troops Palma was captured.
After few days spent In MORO castle.
Havana. he was sent 20 Spain. There
he lived ten months In various prisons.
When he was released the Ten Years.
war was over and Spain had 50 Tight
ened her grip on Cuba that he could
not return 90 the island. but made his
way To New York. He did not remain
long on that first visit He did not
know the language and no opening
seemed 20 offer Gomez had taken
refuge In Honduras. and he urged his
chief 10 join him there Palma went
finally and found aid and sympathy In
abundance. lie married the daughter
Of the president Of Honduras and IN
time became postmaster general OF the
republic
lie could not forget Cuba. and the Is
land 81 his dreams was always Cuba
IIbrt He acquired the English Ian
guage while In Honduras where he re-
manned until 1883 when he once more
came to the United states. this time
bringing a wife AMI children. He set
tied IN Central Valley a small village
ten miles over the hills nom the Hud-
son river and with David Cornell es-
tabished the Institute Estrada Palma,
a school FOR Cuban boys
For eighteen years he lived this quiet
pedagogic life, all the time growing in
the affections Of his neighbors. Five
children were added to his family fold
In Central Valley. and as the years
passed the Palmas became Americans
20 all inteuts and purposes with MOTH
Ing TO suggest that the reserved and
simple hammered schoolmaster was
destined 20 be raised 20 a more lofty
dignity
In 1895, while he Was busy with his
school, Palma was called on to assume
the direction ~ the junta. the group
Of men In this country who were await
Ink an opportunity 10 wrest Cuba from
Spanish tyranny he az once aban-
doned his work az Central Valley and
went 10 New York city where he es-
tablished himself IN a dingy little Of
ice and went 10 work tooth and nail
when the island was freed and the
| iunta's work was done. he returned
| again TO the obscuuty Of Central VAL
| ley and waited Those who know him
believe that ne would have been con-
tent 10 remain there, but when Cuba
called him he regarded the summons
as right and proper and responded
without delay.
Palma began his administration as
the most popular man IN Cuba. That
he has not been able 10 retain this
! popularity is no fault Of his II Is his
uniinching integrity and his logged
resolution 10 make hls government
live up 10 Is pledges that have given
ofiense 90 the revolutionary element
A. It is, he has accomplished wonders.
What other Cuban could have curbed
the racial unrest Of the islanders for
30 long q period
Dr Domingo Mendez Capote. the vice
president is patriot OF a younger
generation and a typical Cuban Doubt
less he is more o. a fayorIie among the
rank and fle n modern Cubans than
n he had lived the best part 81 his
lie In an obscure American hamlet
GEORGE II. PICARD.