Cuba and Puerto Rico | "The dream of three generations of Cubans is about to be realized"

Cuba and Puerto Rico

New Constitution Establishing Self-Government in the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. (Authorized Translation of the Preamble and Royal Decree of November 25th, 1897, published in the Official Gazette of Madrid. ... New York: Published at the Office of "Cuba," 1898

Pamphlet of bifolia, stapled (181 x 116 mm). Title-page; title beginning to separate, lightly tanned. Original drab printed wrappers; wrapper panels detached but present, chipped and creased. In a quarter green morocco slipcase, with folding chemise.

The authorized translation of the Preamble and Royal Decree, which established autonomous constitutions for Cuba and Puerto Rico. As noted on the wrapper, the volume opens with commentary from "Cuban autonomists on the scope of the plan and its liberality as compared with Canadian autonomy and federal state rights." These comments open with, "The dream of three generations of Cubans is about to be realized. The Spanish government is about to grant autonomy to Cuba. What kind of autonomy? True autonomy, parliamentary autonomy, the only autonomy worthy of the name, administrative, economic and political autonomy."