Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-29
DR.. Pierce's FaVorite
Prescription makes Weak
Women Strong and Sick
Women Well.
FAVORS ANNEXATION.
What Mr.. Robert p. Porter Says About
Cuba.

w mat MI. AoueTt says ABOUT
Cuba.
Mr.. Robert P. Porter who has been in
vestigating the tariff questions in Germany
and who prior to that was sent to Cuba to
look over the ground SO far as the adjust
ment of its finances was concerned said in
an interview published in the New York
Herald today that 1.-The commercial su-
premacy of the United States in the Island
of Cuba is threatened by English capital
The London bankers and capitalists de-
clare that American capitalists, while bold
as lions in home operations. are timid when
II comes to foreign investment When in
London recently l repeatedly heard it said
that Americans will not put their capital
into foreign countries unless they can see
a way of getting it out again almost on
call.
This is in part due to the fact that we
are less accustomed to invest in foreign
countries, but there are other causes-first
of all, the probable future of the Island of
Cuba. If American capital felt sure of an
neXation money would flow into the island
plentful!y enough, and in a short time bus
mess would be humming. Uncertainty kills
business, and much of this destructive ele-
ment seems to hang around Cuba. Porto
Rico realizes what a hopeless political or
phan it is, and impatiently awaits formal
annexation. What is good for Porto Rico
is good in an even greater degree for Cuba.
If the newly made treaties with the British
West Indian Islands are approved by Con-
gress Cuban sugar VIII be Disseminated
against. 1t is true that, Cuba indepen-
dent, we can make a treaty. but here comes
in the most favored nation clause, and to
Cuba Independent we can grant no tariff
concession not Obtainable by other nations
The road to Cuban prosperity is the road to
true anneXation-tO an absolute and free
interchange of commodities between the
United States and Cuba. 1t would more
over, make the United States the most i'm
portant sugar-producing country in the
world
But how can we spare sixty or sixty
five million dollars of revenue?' Mr.. Porter
was asked.
why not put an internal tax on the re-
lining of sugar, as we do on the manufac-
ture of whisky? This would be ideal. There
are but few refineries. and Mr. Havemeyer
has recently expressed such an antipathy
to the tariff that he probably would not OBJ
iect.
THE revenue feature can easily be man
of the United States only arrive at the con-
ciusion that the future of Cuba is annexa-
ton pure and simple.
English interests in Cuba all favor an
neXation. The English financiers are glad
enough TO exchange the Spanish for the
United States umbrella, provided the United
States lnaugurate decided policy with ul-
innate annexation in view. In some re-
SDects our occupation of Cuba has been
beneficial; in other respects it has been
hesitating. The public moneys have been
honestly collected The new tariff works
fairly well; the revenue has come up
10 the estimates. The trouble lies in the
fact that there is no real reconstructive
work going on except in Santiago Some
things which might have given employment
to labor have not been inaugurated be-
cause the granting of all franchises has
been stopped on account Of the Foraker
resolution"