New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08
SUGAR INDUSTRY OF CUBA.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES IT ENJOYS
GOMEZ ON ISLAND POLITICS.

Havana, April 1.-Sehor Arrato, manager Of
the Bank of Commerce of Havana, speaking to-
day of the cultivation of sugar cane in Cuba
said that the Cuban planters should unite and
remember that they have IAwerful natural allies
in the refiners of the United States, who are
anxious to have good SUGAR. The cost of the
production of sugar in Cuba, he said was about
GO cents less per twenty-five pounds than
in the United States. In addition to this advan
tage. various economies could be practised. and
new methods of Improvement made also In the
United States planters must the seed every
year while In Cuba the original cane stalk lasts
for years without planting.
Cuba has many thousands of grants of land,
consisting of some thirty acres each, made TO
the who have been in the military service.
that fit for the cultivation Of cane. OF these
about eighteen thousand actually under Gull
tivation, and are capable of producing 100000
tons.
General Rafael Cardenas. Chief of Police of
Havana is finding difficulty in keeping the po-
lice force up to the mark He says that II is
difficult to find men who will stand the severe
discipline. The men remain on the force two or
three months and then leave, declaring that they
are deprived of all the little pleasures they were
previously accustomed to- OF eight hundred
patrolmen, there are hundred vacancies.
The Chief of Police thinks that the men should
be paid more than $40 month.
General Maxine Gomez, in an interview pub
lished in local paper to-day, says that he is
going to San Domingo to look after personal
property that has been abandoned many years
He will return to Cuba he declares, about June
/, and share the Cubans' joys and sorrows for
the future.
With regard to the programme of the Demo
cratic Union party, he says that the idea of form
ing transtory Advisory Board elected
council to represent the people during interven
ton seems dangerous, and is calculated to per-
petuate the intervention.
He also says that it is most strange that the
Treaty of Paris should be made the starting
point toward Cuban independence, pointing out
that the treaty is merely agreement between
two foreign nations, while the dealings between
Cuba and the United States date from the joint
resolution which declares the Cubans to be
independent people.
General Gomez praised Senior Montoro and
other Autonomists for desiring independence;
nevertheless he believed they should remain
apart from politics. they had so bitterly OPP
posed the reSOlu ton. He did not doubt that
there were many prominent Revolutionsts in
the ranks of the party, but he feared that
the helm would be held in other hands than
theirs The lack of solidarity among the Revo-
lutionists. he thought might be the of
temporary power to the old AutonomiStS. who
through deep rooted prejudiCes would attempt
to resuscitate old, dead and buried doctrines,
and would thus weaken the position of the
CubanS in the eyes of the Americans. General
Gomez declares that he had i'll feeling against
the independence of Cuba, end in a horrible fail