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Cuba’s Universal Suffrage

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 3.

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Cuba’s Universal Suffrage

The Cuban Constitutional Convention has adopted universal suffrage as the basis of Cuban government. It was immediately announced from Washington that this is a grave mistake; that neither the President nor the Congress of the United States will sanction it; and that if it turns out to be really true, and Cuba means to have it so, then “it is almost certain that all the labors of the Constitutional Convention will come to naught.” And of course this action on the part of the United States is in fulfillment “to the letter” of her declaration that “the people of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent”!"