The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-29
Cuba.

1IO WINS Va
annual report which President RoosE-
WELT laid before Congress. ought TO be
cmblazoned in letters OF fire at this time in
every American home, newspaper, mart
of trade, and every other place where
our people congregate for business or
reflection:
-The peace OF Cyba is necessary to the peace Of
The Unned States: the health OF Cuba Is necessary
70 the health OF the Unit ed States: the independence
Of Cuba Is necessary to the safety Of the United
sssiss. The same considerations which led to the
var ~nts Spain now require that a commercial
arrangement DO made under which Cuba can
I've"
Tho Cuban question Is not compli-
Gated. II is whether these powerful
and prosperous United States, having
set the Cubans free, will allow them to
starve; whether u country, at this
hour the richest OF nations, will ignore
the deplorable condition Of an adjacent
Island which presents claims for u
aid no less urgent than those which
originally spurrcd us to interference;
whether we shall prove alike callous to
those lofty obligations which accord
ing to every code of civilized national
ethics make us for years to come the
friend, guardian and helper OF the in
FAINT Cuban Republic, and blind to those
considerations Of craftsmanship and high
expediency which, il no other light ex-
isted, would alone illuminate u path.
Economically, Cuba ought to be an in
tegral part of our own country. The
natural products Of her soil, which are
directly complementary to ours, and
essential for the use Of our enormous
and growing population, ought to be
laid down in our ports with the utmost
freedom, Cuba in urn allowing equal
privileges to the manufactures of the
United States. Yet apart from that
we, in fulflment of the responsibility
which we have incurred in the face
Of men and Heaven toward the island,
should regulate our tariff duties or the
chief agricultural products OF Cuba
so that the Cubans may get some
money to rebuild their ruined homes,
revivify their shattered industries and
stand upon their feet rs a nation.
Around the base Of all the revolutions.
miseries and troubles clustering in
modern history about the name of
Cuba has been the inability Of her
people to market proftably their crops
Of sugar and tobacco. 1t wa largely
the poverty growing out Of the
wofully unanswered sugar and to-
bacco questions" in the Antilles which
drove the Cubans into their struggle
with Spain. Is il not worth while TO
reflect that IL her earlier conditions
are allowed TO grow again in Cuba, re-
suits like those Of former days may
again follow?
Cuba are already desperate. An enor-
nous amount Of raw sugar is now in the
hands OF Cuban planters that they can
not dispose OF. The Cuban sugar but
put rose from sos, 900 ton in 1893 10
CTS 900 tons in 1900, and this year
fully 800, 900 tons Of sugar will be pro-
duoed This mass Of sugar. almost un-
salable to-day. presses upon every Cuban
industry and bus ness. Restraints the
development OF the island and Is foster
Ing general poverty and anarchy. IL
might almost lie said without eIaggera-
ton that all the people Of Cuba depend
upon the sugar and tobacco industry in
one way or another for their livelihood
IL this busines- Ia moderately profit
able Cuba will h. prosperous it, breeding
places Of disease cleaned aud purified,
and the Island become the grateful
friend 81 our country hut II Industrial
oondillOils ia Cuba continue much longer
a. they are. the plantations ~ Cuba will
h. ~ dos0lato AZ those II Jamaica, and
who shall ,ay that tho fate Of liayu
iissli may MT again h. snsD upon ths
Cuban lslandf
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bot, moreover siich many ain con
s.dcr A. of even greater pfaaloal nG-
IsDriAho. than iha.o which have lzun
m.ntiolsrt Gaia siSBl bssny 3D.
$4,000 la sold ~ ioirsE oDuhifl.s Asi
peal siash economically normally and
nshtsously Should have Lsn ssIshdod
IA t.s initnd State and mofe than the
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