The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-06
MAKE CUBA SUGAR FREE,

! trdue nave hui lnuulSeu III Inc au-
| NanCeS.
MAKE CUBA SUGAR FREE.
Senator Henry cabot Lodge the in
| innate friend OF President Roosevelt,
| in the course of n speech last week on
the question of reciprocity. said:
First, and the most important of all,
| in my opinion. for political as well as
for economical reasons. is reciprocity
| with Cuba. The prosperity and devel-
opment of that great island are i'm
portant to the United States in a de-
gree second only to the welfare Of one
of the states of the Union"
| The Havana Post in an editorial
says:
THE greatest market in the world
| is in the United states herself. The
commerce of the first magnitude is the
| commerce between and il the States
of the Union. The American people
make more money than any other peo-
pie and they spend more than any
other. This produces an enormous
amount of domestic trade and inter
state commerce. cuba asks to be put
in the way of doing the same thing.
We want to be taught how to make
money. We probably know already
how to spend it. 1t will pay the Unit
ed States to help us and to teach us
in this respect. for whatever we shall
cial relations with the Yankee money
makers. we are entirely willing to
spend with the Yankee money makers.
cuba has acquired the habit of spend
ing all that is made here and recently
the island has run into debt. Hence
the United States can rest assured that
for II good many years to come what
ever money Cuba may make VIII be
paid out Immediately to somebody. We
prefer that that somebody shall be in
the United States.
Last year cuba imported sG6,0O0,000
worth. The United States imported
$S25, 600, or twelve and one-half
times as much; but there are fifty
times as many inhabitants in the Unit
I'd states as in Cuba. Therefore, man
for man. cuba imported four times as
much as the United States. This island
was Impoverished and stripped bare by
Weylor'S warfare The very roads, the
paths as well as the highways, were
efaced by the desolating conflict Gu
ba came out of the war naked and it
will take many years to clothe her
properly.
Here is a market for the American
products such as no other part of the
world offers. Porto Rico is not worth
mentioning. Hawaii and the Philip
pines do not compare with 1t. No
country in South America offers such
an invitation. 1t is the one great OPEN
ing for American manufacturers. 1t Is
only limited 10y the means, the financial
capacity of the island. We would have
bought $.00,Gc0,C0O worth last year.
three times as much as we really
bought, IL we had the money or the
credit. 1t is obvious that Cuba Is not
asking something for nothing. Cuba
is not approaching the United States
in the attitude of a beggar. We are
offering dollar for dollar. All that is
needed is an equitable, intelligent and
reciprocal arrangement
Make Cuba raw sugar free and thus
assist in the development of the ISL
and which we started out to do three
years ago.
Evidently, whatever we give to Cuba
Will come back to us in the form Of
orders for our machinery, agricultural
implements, breadstuffs, rice, etc. 1t
will prove widespread benefit to our
manufacturers and farmers and, by
cheapening sugar, it will benefit con-
fectionerS, prcservers of fruits and the
people at large This will not destroy
any domestic industry; in fact, we be
lieve Congress viii protect all Ameri-
can sugar interests.
our sugar producers. with the eX-
ception of those whose factories are I'M
suitably located. have demonstrated
that they do not need anything like
the heavy protection now granted
them They should take a broad view
of this matter and, while claiming a
reasonable protection, they should re-
member that the interests of Cuba, of
manufacturers and of the people must
also be protected. -Willett IL Gray.