The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-25
CORNERSTONE LAYING
AT PARK YESTERDAY.

| the Cuban government, Cuban
| gunboats and soldiers would be
Ipresent to cooperate in making it
IA long-to-te-remembered event,
was assured by Mr.. Gomez.
i Address By Alpizar
j Raul Alpizar spoke in English
as follows:
i s'To speak of Jose Marti, is al
ways a great responsibility. Men
who appear in life enlightened by
an ideal of liberty and who offer
it with the tenderness Of his heart,
THE energies of his brains of Apos-
4 tie, project in our minds light
that blinds our eyes and seems as
.lif the soul would feel on Bonded
knees.
close MART is not Cuban
[ glory. Not even a Continental
one. Though his genial and
marvellous works can be seen the
splendor of the genius and they
who pass through the road of life
showing the white emblem of hui
man dignity and in their hearts
the roses of tenderness, pertain
to mankind. Jose MART is one of
those men.
she cultivated in the garden
of his intimate love the sublime
belief of freedom and desired
THAT all men profit by it in the
same manner, and his life was an
eloquent example of what the viii
power and heart can do, when
serving an ideal of redemption.
key West saw and admired
the deepness of his thoughts and
listened to his emotional words,
and felt the palpitation of his
heart when in periods of words
that had the divine essence of the
ideals, placing on each soul a
symbol of tenderness obtaining
that all men were united in one
same thought of liberty and love
/ amongst all men, and Key West
was for him beloved spot where
the dwellers showed the purity of
the countries that love and re-
spect mems rights. And he want
ed the Cubans to be free, the
I Cubans thought and acted as the
men of Key West did, to which
1 he wanted to offer all what was
left of his heart.
eve would have liked on this
| glorious anniversary of Cuba to
unveil the monument that perpet-
yates his virtue and greatness
but not always ones desire can
/ be realized, even at this enterprise
one places all energies and will.
For this reason we have only
come to lay over this American
soil, that is the land of freedom,
the cornerstone of that monument
! which win be for you an altar
where all men will come to offer
the prayers of love that should
render all men capable of appre-
ciating the realized efforts Of
Jose Marti for the freedom of
Cuba.
ave know how Key West low
led Jose Marti. We also know of
!, the generous cooperation of the
Key West Cuban and American
cigar makers in favor of the
Cuban freedom and in what bet
ter place than this, so similar to
: Cuba, whose sky is always blue,
: whose breeze is always the same
! that caresses the Cuban poetical
palms, could we render this tri-
: butte to an exemplary citizen whose
life was an eternal conservation
to the freedom and rights of men?
"Key West authorities, people
of Key West: Here we leave this
cornerstone which will be the base
of the monument which in short
time we will bring to offer as
, a tribute of sympathy and love to-
wards this hospitable town where
z the cradle of Cuban independence
was rocked.
II Thanks"
= Mayor Galley Speaks
: DIR. Galley, mayor of Key West
made a brief speech of acceptance
/ and read the resolution Offered
d by the City of Key West.
y In the name of Congressman
Jose Manuel Castillo, Cuban Con
sui Berardo Rodriguez has beer
r, asked to thank all civic and fra
d ternal organizations, all local au
thorities and the citizens of Key
West and the Cuban colony anc
5 through Mayor Galley offers {
/ handshake of fellowship anc
d friendship to the American PEG
pie and likewise to the Cubar
Colony through Cuban Consu
!, Berardo Rodriguez Valdes.
i At 8 p. M, punch was Offered
/ to the local authorities, press anC
}, people of Key West and officia
delegates at the San Carlos Re
ception Hall.
d Among those present were
d Mayor Harry C. Galley, num-
ferrous American and Cuban fami
lies, delegates from civic, fra
l. +arral soc;atias and lacaI navsi