The age-herald., 1901-11-28
SUGAR SELLING
 BELOW ITS COST
Lieutenant Commander Young
 Tells of Cuban Conditions
1T WANTS RECIPROCITY
Thinks Solution of Question Is to An. mex the Island and Abolish Gus tom Duties-Will Benefit
 America.


 Lucian A. Young. United States Navy Captain of the Port at Havana is in Louisville en route to Washington for a brief stay, and then to return to his post. Speaking about Cuba, Lieutenant Young said;
 'Since the military occupation of Cuba, there has been a disposition on the part of the island officials to comply with the Teller resolution, and in so doing there has been no modification of the laws of the island and the economical question has never been discussed. The result is that the affairs of Cuba are in the hands of a lot of political and professional revolutionists who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
 Sugar is being sold at $3.13k on the docks, when 1t cannot be raised in the interior for less than $S.7O. Not ten per cent. of last years tobacco crop has been sold. committee has been sent to the United States to ask for reciproci- ty, which means a stepping stone to an- nexation. Why not annex the island and be done with 1t?
 MuSL AfIHCN ItiCa iStdtos
 Every move means that ultimate re- suit. So far as the sugar industry is concerned, the United States last year consume ed a little over two million tons, of which 100000 tons were furnished by Louisiana and the Hawaiian Islands, on which duty was paid Only ,0O0 tons were raised in Cuba, and that was raised on eight per cent. of the ground availa- ble for cultivation. Out of the great quantity of sugar supplied the United States 96 per cent came from Europe, especially from Germany, for which the United States had to pay duty to cover the bounty that is paid the German gov ernment for exportation of its product. There Is only $15,00O000 invested in the beet sugar industry in this country, on which the government pays a bounty to every State which grows 1t. Therefore there can be no competition between beet sugar and cane sugar grown in Cuba
 of the United States should annex Cuba, with free introduction of products, and with the development of 92 per cent. of the uncultivated land, we could con trol products for which we ask the European countries, and would then have to ask no favors of them.
 "The comments of many people on the acquisition of the Philippine I believe 1 CTS have made every effort to partition China. France has Tonqui, England the Yang Tsi valley, Germany Shan Tung Russia Manchuria, and the only thing | the United States demands is an open door policy Should these powers accom- 1 plish their designs the United States should control the Philippines. by which on their way to the Orient.
 Commands Caribbean Sea. | So with Cuba. We are to control the isthmian canal, and Cuba Is the abso- l lute defense to the commerce of the Caribbean sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern approaches to the canal, and should be the military base for the United States.
 Cuba can give to the United States | but one concession, and that should be annexation, for we cannot demand priv ileges of foreign power of fortifyine the port of Call without explanations and arrangements. Furthermore WI have spent 7OO.OOOOOO in liberating Cuba but the Cubans do not seem satisfied and ask us to give them independent gov ernment under the Teller resolution Then they want us to get out of tn, island and sacrifice s26OOO. 900 which is be ing paid in duty from imports. Int only salvation for Cuba is absolute ac quiescence to the markets of the United States. In my opinion they should b' given home rule under a Governor ap pointed by the United States, with pow CT to veto any act that they may mak, subsequent, of course. to the approval o Congress. ."sst