Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...membership of the Union up to March 1 was 3819, an increase of 104 during February. Among the members are men from almost every state and from the following foreign countries: England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Egypt, China, Japan, and Korea...
...Junior Wranglers. Debate. Assembly Room of Union, 8.15 p.m. Question: "Resolved, That free trade be established between the United States and Cuba." Affirmative, Blaikie's camp; negative, Hale's camp...
...Virginia, 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 Washington, 4 1 1 0 1 0 7 Wisconsin, 13 4 6 12 0 0 35 Wyoming 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 Bulgaria, 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 Canada, 6 4 20 2 5 3 40 Cuba, 0 4 0 0 1 0 5 England, 1 1 4 0 0 0 6 France, 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 Germany, 1 0 5 0 0 1 7 Greece, 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Hawaiian Id., 6 1 1 0 0 0 8 Italy...
Your correspondent thinks we should take an active step because we intervened in Cuba. This assumes that our intervention in Cuba was perfectly justifiable, and that the situation in South Africa is parallel to that in Cuba before the war. The first is open to argument and the second needs more facts than we are now able to get, due to the "inconspicuous way" in which the press publishes South African news. Occasionally we hear that which leads us to think that the Spanish policy in Cuba was not so yellow as printed and it may be that the present...
Somewhat more than a hundred thousand Boer women and children have been driven from their homes and have been herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued...