The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-10
sLdVERY sUPP0RTED IN CUBA.
Absurd Commercial Relations between the
United Stntpe and spain.


the island Of Cuba, the United States received
last year a fraction over eighty-nvo per cent.
Two per cent. only Of Cuba's exports were sent
TO Spain, and thirteen per cent. to other ooun-
tries.
The United States ore, therefore as a nation
Interested to the extent OF eighty i've per cent
flrst-ln slavery Ia Cura; because we con-
sume eiehty-1ve yer cent OF the products of her
slave labor.
Secondly In tho sugar estates; because tho
cost Of cultivation Is included In the market
value of the produce.
Thirdly and for the came feason)-In the man
uiacture Of the sugar.
Fourthly-In al the railroads, coastwsc cur
ring trade, warehouses, wharyos, and cooper
age establishments In Cuba.
Moreover, the United states support the
Spanish Government In Cuba to the same eX-
tent tSj per cent? Of its cost, bee 1t eXists
only by taxation, and this & xation Is direct
upon the products of the island. Spain con
sumes only two per cent. Of Cuba's produce,
and consequently contributes only two per cent.
to the agricultural, industrial aud commercial
enterprises OF the island.
The imports Of country can be based only on
its exports a nation like an Individual must sell
before 1t can buy, and in TINS age reciprocity
Of trade Is of far greater Importance than all IN
ternational law; for while the latter may be set
aside, suhvC rtcd or tortured into different inter
pretatiOns, commerce, which supplies the wants
and furnishes markets for the products of all
countries, IA based upon necessarily sound and
immutablc laws.
There should be no reason, therefore, why
Cuba, OF whom we purchase eghty-lve per
cent. OF all she produces, should not Graw from
us, II we can supply them, elghl y-nve per cent.
of her rcouiremeuts. Rut cubo. heing an ont,
lv,n, farm, ~ sn,tn and h,,in, hi,ber,o been
,hlc ,o excrcisc M ,,,I ~ hcr o,,r d. do
h.rrcd frn,, rrnc,isipg ,hts natural r.r,nrocttv
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However rs matters stand TO dav tho h,l,r,c
or our trade with Cuta shows a los, 10 us Of