The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-17
SPAIN MAKING NEW CONQUEST
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Prof ortts - Hsssaa nissrslty says
tire Otd Csantry . issno-o~es,u
Thsaaht m ohl Ps.-~.sasas tuba
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b ~ FsrnAndp Ortiz. professor - con
-titutinnal laS in tho niv-r-ity q Havana.
has arrived a. tho lmp-r,d IN h.. way
10 burup-. Nh-r~ b. sill r~pr~~nt The
Cuban Government At thr-- -si.ntifir
cpnxre-s-s IN Hru--.l- lInn h.. r-turn
To- the nit-d Stat-a m the fall h. will IL
tho nfiiciAl representative % CuhA at the
P-nitsntiAry Congress tn Washington.
Although only ~ III Ortiz - already
cunzldsT-s on" - the foremost thinkers
IA Cuba lie wa- educated IN the Span
ish universities ~ barcelona and Madrid
and At ia. University % Genoa. where
he Was pupil 10 Prof Lombroso. the
criminologi-t Ons % Dr OTtiz's works
u a study % Cuban Negro wnChcrAr
and Criminology
-Fetichism stlll exists among the very
lowest classes 81 egro~s IN CuhA IN very
much the same shape IN which II Was
brought from Africa said Dr Ortiz
yesterday. but the great bulk Of the
negro population ~ quite advanced and
b - particularly moral ia habits and Gus
/ oms
The University Of Havana has been
growing and last year was an especially
prosperous one There are about LOO
: students IN the institution. 81 whom more
than SO are in the Law department.
uss' az text book Prof NIlloughby's
Tn" Study u Political Science. which
! regard a. the most thoroughly up to
date work on the subject.
when | get To Paris | shall publish
my neW book on the Reconqusst Of
America by spain Dr Ortiz explained
that this vas not a fanCiful prophecy
Of literal subiugatiun Of the American
continent or anv part Of II. but study
" What Spain - trYinz To accomplish
by sending teachers and lecturers thr ough-
out the Latin American countries.
The problem ia front Of Cuba. re-
sumed Dr OrtiZ IS the problem 81 cduca-
ton Our education must IT, imported
from foreign countries, especially from
the United States and France and other
advanced countries The Spanish part
Of our education - beng taken car" oi
10y the spanish Government IL u per
hsps widely known here that Prof. Shep-
herd oi olumbla University has Teen
going about IN south America l"cfurtng
ON American civilization and intellectual
development. Spain has started crusade
along the same lLn.S. sending teachers
and unIV @rsIty professors through her
former colonies To tell about the latest
intellectual development IN Spain and TO
discuss similar subjects That Is partly
what I discuss IN my hook
SPAN looks to the general influence
tha- tins would have upon life and thought
ara civilization m lAlIn American coun-
ines. economics also - involved. OF
course. IN tuba Their" are still many
famines thai are representative OF the
old spanish T-gim" and that are still
spanish IN ideas and -yrnpAthies. They
have still considerable influence on con
dItIons IN the country. and some Of them
Iaaz Ant WHw - a.
try to keep the tuhaus stirred up.
There ~ another class 81 SpAnlaris
down there which j. peacefully disposed.
and does not tax" any part IA politics
a all but these propagandists try To
ggiiaie old pA'riotiC feelings toward
Span They are class Of aiEenturers.
and the real object Ut al their agitation
; il TO stir up sentiment IN Cuba against
, the American peopl"
The feeling in uha - not IN any vAy
inclIneSi tow art annexation 4" the n'i,i
states but the country does want ~"
protection Ui n" u.t'~i Sia'"s Nha' %
ever errors are committed must b" a.
trihut'~i only 20 IA" tG"' that M" pre-
para'ory conditions of m" country. he
f cause OF ~" way ~ wR- governed Nv
Spain were not such thai ~ wa- r"e ~
from IN. start 20 rnarGs" Iis own Sri.1rS
CubA's 81 ficuiiy - not on" that lies with
tho Cubans tuv'n."lV,-- uu' with the
3 civilization and the idea, Inherited from
Spain. ln that opunirv they have not
been prepa-"i To- sslsft themselves to
. modern coudIilou-. I..-ir IDEAS and their
b civlhzAIou 40 not those 10 IA" NOR"
modern pG-' ~ the world aud | DO no.
, speak without know .'tg" - wna' ] I'm
talking about. for I hli ample uppor-
tuni'y to Judg" tor myself during the
fourteen wears that hN't On m" country
Their. ~ sal much 20 Il" ~ the wAy
| Of bringing uNT prisons ny - date. "a y
I pr OrltZ m ggsW"~ - e question. We
-till use the old spanish 'a-tl"- a. yalS.
but their hvgl.gIc conditions nave b.aan
greatly improved. here = great interest
. IN M" subject. which - shown 10y the fact
/ that Cuha las hal representatives a.
many conferences here that have dealt
! with PRISON natter