Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-23
OBSERVATIONS IN CUBA
REPRESENTATIVES, HAWLEY TALKS
of HIS RECENT TRIP.
Labor Finds Employment mt Remun-
erat:ve Prfces-Much UndevelOp-
ed Land There.

Representative Hawley Of Texas. who has
just returned from an extensive trip through
Cuba, in a conversation with Star reporter
this afternoon said:
THE summer in Cuba has been delight
full. While you were swelterfng here In tho
nineties the thermometer in Cuba was fire.
quently from 40 to 10 in the evening. The
season for agricultural products has been
normal, with sufficient rain in most dis
tricts. The tobacco crop was large, and
the growing sugar crop. If present condi-
tions are maintained, will nearly double the
crop Of last year.
Labor Finds Employment.
Large areas of land are being planted
and extended improvements in many ways
are projected. Under these conditions OF
agriculture. labor finds employment at re-
munerative prices. American and English
capital Is being largely invested in this
industrial development of the island. The
construction of railways, under former
charters; the development of mines, the
cultivation of fruits on most extended
scale, the establishment of sugar prop
critics and the establishment of new estates
on the most modern and approved basis
all tend to create state of affairs that not
only supplies the labor of Cuba today with
employment and is full of promise for the
future, not only for thousands that are
ment or investment there.
An Immense Area Of Virgin Soil.
Cuba, unlike Porto Rico. and though in
less degree unlike the Philippines. is not a
populous country. There are today in Cuba
virgin forests that have never been tray-
ersed by civilized man. There is an i'm
mense area of virgin soil as rich as the
world affords, in climate unsurpassed,
that would yield to labor and to capital as
large and certain returns as any unoccu-
pied field on the continent.
TT Is sometimes suggested that more peO-
pie and more capital would Immediately
enter Cuba and rapidly develop all it's great
possibilities but for the apprehension that
political difficulties may disturb it's prog
ress. This is a lost apprehension. The
Cubans are, for the most part, serious
minded people. and make welcome every
element Of growth and enterprise that es-
tablishes itself in the island. They desire
peace and full share of prosperity.
Cuba is. geographically and CONNER
cially, very near the United States. This
government has guaranteed stable gov
eminent and absolute pacification OF the
island. and l know Of no country where
property rights and every form of right will
be more secure than in the Island Of Cuba.
Sanitary Conditions Improved.
1.-The sanitary condition of the island-of
vast concern to this country, particularly
to those who live in southern ports-has so
improved that 1t is believed possible now
to eject yellow fever. The conduct of this
important factor in our intercourse is under
the direction of the United States marine
hospital service, which has shown capacity
and energy of TIE highest order in dealing
with this problem.
Tine cause of education Is now well adj
yanced and the youth of Cuba will receive
every advantage that belongs to the daily
school life of the American boy or girl.
so after a trying and devastating war
every element that favorabiy effects COM
munity interests is at work in Cuba for
the maintenance of its health, the education
of it's youth, and the promotion of its COM
merce with the United States, which will
soon grow beyond any former experiences
or preconceived notions of its value and
extent