New-York tribune., 1910-10-23
CUBA PUSHES TO FRONT
Or. SeCades Tells of Progress in
All Lines of Activity.
TO HAVE FAIR ELECTIONS
Here to Investigate Our Penal
System, with View to New
Prison for Havana.

DR.. Manuel Secades, n prominent lawyer
of Havana and consulting attorney OF the
Secretary of Government. of Cuba VINO is
now in this city on an official mission, dis
cussed yesterday the political and economic
&C Cnditon of the republic, which ne pictured
as both satisfactory to the majority on the
Cuban people and also as holding out
good future.
DIR Secades has come here to investigate
for his government the American prison
system and police regulations, with the OBJ
iect of introducing many of these methcds
in Cuba. He also is authorized TO Invite
plans for large new prison when 'he
government is to build In Havana
The Cubans will have their elections Tor
Congress contemporaneously with those in
this country, End regarding those IN Cupa
DIR Secades made the announcement that
the elections in his country would be the
first I'm Cuba that had not been fraudulent,
demonstrating the political advancement
that has been made and that the doiillildhl
party does Eot try in Cuba to impose on the
people any candidate. to the exclusion Oh
another. as is so often done in Latin
American countries.
1.-The coming elections will be truthful"
said DR.. Secades. land the electoral paHot
boxes shall be the representation of the
national will"
Trade Shows Large Gains
Regarding the economical siaution," said
the Cuban official, 1T cannot be denied
that, notwithstanding the troubles that
may have afflicted our commercial life
accidental troubles. that are likely TO be
experienced even by peoples of higher po-
tentiality-our national wealth has obtained
considerable benefits. Our commercial ac-
tivity is perhaps most convincingly reflect
ed in the figures presented in the tables OF
our imports and exports for the last year.
In that period the imports amounted to
se5, 10000 and the exports to $4,000, 600,
which left a handsome balance Of trade in
our favor and which was much better
showing than We had made IN any OF the
preceding nine years.
These conditions are not exclusively due
| TO the law of supply and demand, but also
are the result of the governmental action
as an accurate regulating and efficient fac
tor. The government has always endeav-
ored to give an impulse to the commercial
currents and the development of the indus
trial forces. 1t was largely due to this
Impetus, unfortunately lueAlCltiIt III SOliiS
cases. that the commercial existence Of the
country has been successfully developed"
Dr. Secades, continuing, said:
Another instance Of our phenomenal
growth was the sugar crop for the last
wear. which was the remarkable and un-
precedented yield of nearly two million
tons 1t would be rash to assert that the
Liberal administration is infallible- The
Liberal administration is susceptible to all
human weaknesses, the same as the ad-
ministration of any other country, but our
government tends to diminish these weak
nesses with boundIess self-denial and fore
sight The activity of the various depart
ments has impaired an efficient and power
full action on all the branches of the ad-
ministration, lettering the service and
properly regulating institutions that were
evidently faulty.
Following the example given us by the
United States, among other cultured ma
tions. the Home Department is bent on re-
organizing the police according to modern
patterns and intends to build prison that
shall meet the requirements of the sc1en-
tiic progress attained in modern penal pro-
cedure 1t is intended TO build houses for
the toilers to enable them to come into
possession of their own homes by means of
lot-drawing proceedings, and night schools
are created for adults In fact, the purpose
OF improving morally and materially our
condition is noticeable throughout"