New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

and New-York three times the population of the
Eyer-Faithfu and overwhelming isle yet neither OF
these considerable States begins to spend at the rate OF
Cuba at the richest and the poorest territory in
the world There are fewer than 100000 slaves in the
island maintaining the remainder Of the population
Rejecting that upon this labor basis ultimately rests
the $3 600, 600 which Expresses the slave owner
we may imagine the bill of wrongs translated into
the budget All that the slave is robbed of is made
to bear down upon him. The 81 900 900 come out of
this poor cheap Samson and all spent to keep him
cheap-a marvellous economy
p wonder that you do not pity the Shareholder.
Please TO consider the financial riddle in which he Is
shut MP, and the burden of imposts under which he
groans The oppressed SUPERINTENDENT is forced TO
say to himself that come what WILL flesh and blood
cannot stand such an order of things much longer:
and what more can an oppressed sugar-merchaut dot
Sugar at 81 cents per pound in Cuba has had to suf
fer despotisln of costs equal to or cents more
before it reaches market; and all because Spain is
tyrant in her customs and in her trade. But i've or
six hundred thousands ofesh and blood in this cane
growing island have had to endure things than
the taxes individually put upon sugar by what the
Havana merchants regard as vicious system OF
revenue The whole fabric of 100000, represent
ing population Of 100000 or BOOO,OO
rather than Cuba's slim million and hall,
settles down upon the halfInillion slaves or more
who raise the coffee and sugar and gather the fruits
of the island The monarchy decreed in Its last
years tax Of IL per cent on property-a tax OF inc
great maternal order such as mother countries have
the unhappy knack of imposing. There 1t was, now
ever that the shoe pinchsd badlyloyalists will have
1t that it of the exciting of the insur
rection The friends of the Provisional Government
now propose 10 do away with this tax, and how 7
4 - 11ff.n IN wnt
intended that the island shall neglect its splendid
money-margns or its s20.OOo,OOo of deficit. st.
Domingos must be paid for, and all the rest of tho
continent beside on St Domingo principles; for Cuba
sustans the whole of the Spanish power and interest
in the New WorId-solders, officials ships, legations
and she sustains them in the good old Cuban way.
An officer of good rank at the island receives three
times the salary which lie would have in Spain. and
the reason therefor is not, in fact. that Cuban
money is worth three times less than that OF Spain
though some of the Spaniards have superstition
that way-but because Cuba IS rich and the foreign
service is special The President of Council in Spain
receives s6,OCO the Cuban Captain General $4,000
and ct ceteras Cuba supports this alien service sent
from the Ultamdr Of Spain, rank, file, and all in
short, carries Spain on her back. with the Great
Republic for a neighbor.
OF great number of petty imposts which 60 to
swell the wrongs Of the budget. an incalculablt
quantity might be cut OIL No one believes from the
face of the bill that the $7,l%.2lG which
make up Cuba's estimate or the s9042s7
Of her treasury and lottery expenses are altogether
composed of correct and necessary items. So with
tho unnatural receipt of s17,45O.OCO from taxes
and tariffs Very many of the direct contributions
can and ought to be suppressed. In order to show
You the ingenuity and variety of these imposts, as
they were constituted some years ago, quote from
an able statement. published in France by Cuban