New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-24
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IF CUBA WERE FREE.

TIE VALUABLE TRADE WITH THE oN'ihD
STATES THAT COULD DE DEVELOPED
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Were the gem Of the tropica. seas the is.ahd
of Cuba a free country, there would begin an era
of enormous trading with the United States SUM
c!ont to give an impetus practically aihou"''ne "
a moderate but at the same time legitimate o'o'''
TO almost all our branches OF business. co'"''e'
clal treaty nth the young republic similar 10 'ne
one we have with the Sandwich Islands wouio iae"-
itate this likewise for the United States produces
and manufactures almost everything that Cuba I'M
norris and needs and imports and needs eVery'n''is
that Cuba's fertile soil produces CUBA exports
yearly TO all countries on an average so'"o.V" u
SSOOO0OOO worth OF raw sugars anu "'o'''''''
mahogany and cedar wood fruits. TOBACCO iron
ores. ETC. of which the United States buys between
90 and IS per cent. for no other reason IMAM tha'
we need these raw products and can buy them no
where else In the world conveniently 10 our
solves as we can in Cuba, which Hes at our very
door.
on the other hand Cuba. under her present SPAN
ish regime buys Of the United States only between
sl2 900 and 100000. thus creating balance OF
trade against us Of about sG5OOo.0o yearly. In inc
same way that the United States Is the natural
market for Cubas exports largely ior sol ~
Sixty miles of our nearest shores. this country
should be the natural purveyor Tor 'upa wal.s ~
the same or greater extent than the amount OF our
YEARLY purchases from the Island. The only barrier
to it Is artificial one and npregnapie 50 ,oms ar
consent TO grant the island the only iorm on noIe
rule which Is compatible with the proper deve'vp,
rieh, OF ~ Tie ISLANDERS to make their own tariff
laws and name their own fiscal officials, b.. ,,.
The unjust tarin dscriminatcns maue 10y 49,.
Spanish Government compel the Cubans to purcnnse
Spanish cotton goods shoes s'ee ar ra in
10 the same products OF the United states notwmn-
standing the latter are not b Gn lies the why
Spain is making desperate efforts today 20 n
nep pan knows that once Cuba is free the
ISLAND VIII turn 20 her natural trenI a,n ,,her The
Satalans nor the Biscayans VII! longer De aDie 70
force upon the helpless Cuban consumer 'neI cos.
ton and leather goods iner snd as Cuba and porto
Rico are their only foreign markets these ~ @
in spain would suffer; hence SPANS efforts 10 con-
The natural resources of the island are but par
that thew have not begun to be developed
Spain is not the nation that can DO IL J.. T. , s'
Lnown tha, she lacks the money. energy, lnteIl,-
gcnce ana Government morality thai are rsqnTe
She makes The island victim Of eysra X mn
nonoles and hereby general and profound iisco'-
tent has been berpeua conGiGn n pns are
almost totally neglected. and in short, 70 an IN
partial observer IT would rHm IN IN, ,he' light as
bandit looks upon his booty or farmer upJnn no 70
to be MIXED as long as S sne .b nnn d@s Hill"
Under the nominal or actual tlie.lge o, IN, we
United States that fair Sani a wSnn nave
would dream An island whose REQUIRES are pr os
,ic,ily undeveloped. and yet under shch ru'houss
government "a that OF SPAN has an eSport am
irnnort bus ness OF about s5o.ofnVV yearly. Wou.
i'm the course OF ffteen years. under an in'''s'"'
and honest government. astonsh the world 4,
The avs OF hygiene are pract'caily ti.oleu y.
the spanish Government There T. no more reason
spr yellow fever IN cuba. under proper sahltar.
laws than exists along our southern our
coast: but Spain Is not the country that VIII give
an great Importance TO euch things as proper
"r,ycrorc or any other Improvements that may cost
nor money and thus reduce her income ''"" '"'
nd
Railroads. sewers. dredging OF rivers and par ~,
49, locks nublic roads. ~ fact. every KIM OF
necessary public improvements. viii nave to be
Iorc so that products Of the islnDf WI ihcre.se
ami become accessible 20 tho sh piping ports
Tbere IL hardly line " trade in THIS eountry that
,o,,,I m, al the good results from the island be
t. ,reo ARD abe h purchase her many wanis N
,hs MARKET OF tho United states Therefore rem IN
/, c,-,,n1rri,l point ~ view this country Wouih nc
~-o,,Iv benefited hv TIE success OF the patr OTIS
New YORK. April II. 1875 bNIO''iH"'