New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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49,, -,,,-rtr 49, e,,no Past and Present EY MATrsN
n. BiLlot. Crown 5vo, rl. 30 Hoo7'''N'
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This IS practical and careful account o. N""' ~
all its aspects- historical political "-''"' AK
",ltnral and social. Nr. Ballon has ie" gIaceS oil
-, al seldom, attempts the picturesque ana
lr,,t,c i'm description, bu+ he gives the results Oh
Lis Leon and iudicious observation IN way N"'o'
males his book valuable though not iascihA'-h-'
II il beautiful but duty Cuba That he SHOWS u ;
1,,,ha Louul down rolouticssly by a hgot"H spanish
motley. with most of her opportunities ioT "''.'"
was,ed. with a currency practically Wo'tN'''''
wit. coffee and cotton planting absonteiy UNIV"
ont nv The taxes imposed upon thT lI'','' 'o''
.,;,l dreamy idle oppressed population looAihH
4orvorA 70 nothing " I'm close proximity saws ,"'
anth,r. " to country where the taxes Ut.
uos.d and so light 10 be almost "h'c'' ~ va,
whore each free family pays over hN0
dollars per auuum, directly and nIrec'S' 'i
support of a system of big0tod NI"NnH'
eoualled elscwherc-forminG an HRsr'h"' Su"'
Co. t,ventv-s,x millions of dollars. For all TINS
extorton no equivalent is received. NO I'i'I'
ticn. no utterance for tongue or pen are "hN' pro-
scru.d. no share of public honOrs, no once, no
or,o,umcDt The industry Of the people Is crippou'
+bir i ercourse with other nations IS hampeFod III
o,,,rv conceivable manner and every liberal aSPlra-
lion of the human soul et.hel in its hrth. Oah
oood morals and Christian lives be eApc't'" VI "
people who are 50 downtrodden inns IS we ho'o
10 which Nh Balou urs again ana aSalu '"iou,'''
MI his descriptions of the beauty and lerti| Oh 'o
Nower of islands Ills observations were Aaue ~
RECENTLY rs last winter when he found all OuSilo'S
in a state of cruel depression'
One, of the principal causes of TIE present penn
rupt condition Of the people OF CuDt to ,slard i
reriod OF transition through which inc lsIalG +
rasslng from slave to free labor OeslueS YIN .
tbere il the exhaustion cOnse4uent upon CO. -
civil war and succession OF pau CIUt9' -
Gcco,nin0 dearer ard sugar cheaper Inc SpaHldIus
an. slow to adopt labOT-saVlng hlaClIh'55 n
iIe1s of any sort. and those not aTeuuN HU 49,,
have neither capital nor credit WIN VIII ~ lTbc
emo the new machinery for sugal-mAhlhN' IN
enormous production Of European pettsu-Id' n,
cnt OIL all Continental demand iot 'nel s'.r,v t,''
I,s I'm some decree superseded Ms use IN AHICIIo''
ltIi ace ia on the increase, as poverty anu ""
of lc1itunate employment prevail. Motey, mn 1 y.
en- ID, borrowed at all. Is at n ruluOs ih.'lt9''
o,1,. of Office holders still manage 20 eAtoi CONSUL
et,ble sutps i'm the aggregate from the pcoPV' ul'O
fhc puis, of necessary taxes. flnaiclal Jun t
al IN the face it is sad thing 10 say Ji, w.
truo tnQt among people heretofore coIslu'I 90 a.
euspicion ina commercial transactions, GIeI' f''",It
.stv prevails pecuniary distress anu l'C' "I
driving men, once IL good sian4l"E, 70 and Man
tatiOns are not only heavily moit1ageu' nul wy
1rospccfivc crops are in the same cO1ult"ii, an
eases In former prosperous ears the liAie4s ~
been lavish spendcGs OF money, W., - ;+o.ost
1bcr credit to the full extent. nhli lHyli M
acrOunt has consumed their pllhClpaI'. A40 A.
siye habits ACQUIRED under the prOmptin-s OF dl-e
profits and sure market are difficult To ONeIcuI"V'
and people who never anticipated the present stl'e
OF affairs are now t0rctc u eAetCIru ~ 'i:iff -.
sc,f-dCnial Cuban planters and their i"hiIi id
years past came to our most aShoEa,DIgi lava
ilace, dec<ed with Jewels OF almost luxurious uio'
and tbrv lavished gold like water; most OF theN,
individual. considered themselves TO be re beyond
Tie chances of fortune. Their pI2tu~c sN !o o. Nv
A., va n soDrce of cnvvi their hheralty 10 land
lords and to ryant- was denoralzing as IL re-
plrded the taTih of hotel prices Tor more a'eaul
S9,pp people Thousands of human beings were
Welding their enforced labor 10 fiji the spend
fbrlltS pur,,s and sugar was blnS. Inc PFC re
mas its reverse Civil war has surerFtue the
eloyes are being freed sugar Is no longer BONANZA.
aud Inc rich man Of yesterday Is the bankrupt OF
to-day,
Of corr.o Mr.. Ballou. like most other American
visitors in Cuba, suggests at the end Of his volume
that her home is naturally in our constellation
however that may be. 1t is not at oil certain that
the island will enter the next century IN her present
political condition.