The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-17
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AS Gnu oSN4dA
Cuban citizen I want to con-
graduate you for your understand
ing article dated the 9Th inst. en-
titled ut Is Too Late, Mr.. Ma
chado," because in it's just con-
ception, and wording you interpret
the feeling of 80 per cent of my
fellow citizens, who cannot offer
to forgive and forget those who
have ruined the public and private
fountains of richness to enrich
themselves, have maintained
prisons and pronounced death in
many illegal ways.
To forgive, and forget the vic
tins over the still warm blood and
mutilated corpse, the agony of
prisons and suffering victims,
would make us accomplices to
those faults. That the law be en-
forced on those who are guilty, is
the least we could desire.
This does not mean that we are
trying to cultivate hatred, nor
that we stand for illegitimate poll
tics, small and passionate, sur
rounding persons who should be
condemned. We are serving the
ideas by which, from the beginning
of the past century our ancestors
fought for so bitterly, it is for
those human ideas of liberty, as
citizens of elevated concepts, that
we have been fighting without any
material recourses even to the
tortufing illegality and tyrannical
methods of those, who with armed
forces and violence have made
themselves the power of Cuba.
As a newspaperman who has
never submitted to Machadoism, as
an honest newspaperman in the
constant service of my country,
nailed to one of the most his
torically dark usurpations of
horrors, that Latin-America has
ever had, ] want to send YOU this
in testimony of our acknowledge
ment of our high esteem for the
beautiful and eloquent demoRstra-
tions you have been showing as
an honorable newspaperman, from
the virile pages of t.The Key West
Citizen" and for placing your
self in the defense of that un-
fortunate country with the pen OF
a just man.
You may be sure that in such
ideals we will not cease. Neither
the Cuban living the hell of Sc
many wrongs, nor the Cuban
whose tyranny has sent to the
exile in which we will remain in
our ifrevoeable determination tina,
the tyranny end US, or that we
end the tyranny.
To return there begging pit.
eously to Machado, owner of lives
and lands in Cuba, would be to
accept the suffering of our<coun.
try where the lash of usurpation
does not cease flagellating the
backs of the people of Cuba
Meanwhile a horde of delinquent
salaried men publicly assassinate
the most illustrious men of Cuba
without being discovered although
public opinion knows who they
are.
No, Mr.. Artman. with Machadc
and under his regime, there ear
be no solution of the completely
that he insinuates in his puerilt
speeches, because the people Of
Cuba, know too bitterly the In
sincerity of his words.
Cuba, our Cuba, industrious
virtuous and heroic always main
tanning culture and freedom has
to overcome this present reigr
of terror in which she is enslaved
Only by the Inauguration of new
and glorious ideals can she b.
made to recover from the present
atrocious atmosphere. The geniu:
and light, which without help, but
without estranged obstacles t.
consume it. the new country viii
go higher for the aspirations Of
the Cubans, in which liberty has
been founded and inculcated .
virtue to die for her. The in
.telligence of the people of Cuba
aspires TO higher ideals.
You know exactly how 10 en-,
tighten the political problems 81
my country. How can we havs
faith in one who has never com
Piled with any Of his solemn eaths
not even those made At the grave
Of his fathers. II is erueis TIT
life Of the exile without means 81
livelihood. but It il even mors
cruel to live in our country.
That Is Why II i inronaaerahls
in the Cuhan conscience that only
the absolute liquidation AZ ]
regime which Is criminal and