The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA
XI--Latin Versus Anslo-Sax
By Frederic J. Ha.kin.

avana. Jan. q. Cuba Is as loyal to
 hish institutions today as Is Madrid.
 d. rebelled against the iniquities Of
 nish Government because they were
 rous, not because they were in-
 ltous. Cuba sought and accepted
 aid of the United States because
 vas necessary to bring the revoiu-
 to a successful fruition. But
 ia did not seek. nor has 1t accepted
 Anglo-Saxon ideas which the
 erican nation proffered along With
 aid of arms.
 Fhen the thirteen British colonies
 North America succeeded m Drean,
 of from the mother country ana
 erecting a republic. the popular feel-
 against England was bitter. II
 aimed so for many years, and "twise- 2 the Hons taii- endured as q favo.,
 pastime for popular orators unti
 min the present decade. Tney LOOK
 flexible British constitution of that
 l. added d few things to 1t. and em- | med if in fixed and unbending
 Idamental law. Their courts follow
 British rulings, their lawyers cited
 Itish precedents. English literature
 ltinued to be the standard. Bngnsh
 pits of living were adnered ID. Ihere
 re other clashes with the GoyeIh-
 mt of England. but In everylnlhs
 |e politics the two peoples remained ] same.
 by ana by the young republic began l prosper. It grew into great na-
 n and attracted emigrants from ev- nation of the world-it was the btination of the greatest folk-trek
 historic times. Comparatively few these immigrants were English. Did nerica respond to the Ideas of these
 migrants? Not at all. America took ose immigrants and taught every e of them to speak English, to think tglish and to act English. This, or urse, Is in broad sense. There are tie differences between the united ates and England today, and the ad- ctive "AInericans has distinct eaning. But as against any otner ,tion. Briton and American join to- .ther under the title Anglo-Saxon Id boldly do declare that they are l." and that there Is no other "t. very American claims the right to Ie title Anglo-Saxon, even If he boasts pure Huguenot blood. It isn't Anglo lxon blood that counts in the United Iates; 1t Is Angl0-Saxon ideas. They .e English ideas with an American ,pendix.
 Cuba believes that Anglo-Saxon ideas -e greatly inferior to Spanish ideas. he Cubans have forgotten and TOT ven the Spanish rulers who shot tneir sons and dragged the bodies trough the streets shouting Fresh eatl 5 cents a poundHThey have for wen and forgotten the brutal Gov .nors who sent them to jail without
 trial, never to communicate with Imily or friends again. They have ,rgotten the terror of tyranny. They ave forgotten these things because ley are now, back to- back, lighting r the last ditch against what seems l. them an even greater evil--the ad- ance of the Anglo-Saxon ideas.
 Cuba will admit that Americans ave it freedom. It will admit that le Americans have rescued it from ellow fever. that they have improved le material conditions of every man r the island, that they have abolished ar of governmental tyranny, that they ave made the daily life of the Cuban fife. Cuba wIll ask Americans again Id again to assure it's peace, to pro- ,ct its commerce, or to buy It's pro tce. And Cuba will be grateful, af- ,r the Cuban fashion.
 But Cuba will not, if 1t can be helped, aye it's morals and manneEs revamped ! suit the notions Of some crude Yan- ees who come to Havana to advise le Government, or to Cuba to make Ioney. Every lawyer in Havana will slI with blanched face how the first merican intervention seriously at- ,mpted to force Cuba to abandon the ivil Law and the Code Napoleon for le English Common Law. That was fx. 10 n .wyers more heinous than the delib- rate shooting of a patriot negro, for ie change in laws would affect all fe lawyers and the negro who was. l0t was only one negro.
 These Amesricans abolished bull shting, stopped the lottery and placed le ban of prohibitory law upon the ,clx fight! Did Spain ever do any ing so monstrous as that? Never. pain may have shot some people, may ave imprisoned some people, may have .arved some people, but Spain did mot Iterfere with the peoples pleasure. hese same Americans tried to get le Cuban people to shut up shop on unday!
 Then these Americans are So crude .+ their social customs. Cubans have sard, and some of them almost believe. lat in the United States young men nd young women, unmarried and not yen engaged, are permitted to go out , the theatre and to restaurants to- ether, unchaperoned. Very few be- eve such preposterous report, but if le Americans do these things it is ecessary for the honor of every Cuban lmiIy that the Invasion of American Dcial customs be repulsed.
 Then the Americans are so rudely in- stent upon their ugly language. They ave forced the Cubans to speak Eng sh because they have money and the uhan tradesmen must get some of