New-York tribune., 1901-08-20
CUBAN IMMIGRATION.
IT Is MAINLY SPANISH AND WILL PROB
ABLY CONTINUE TO BE So--NO
AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS.
Havana. Cuba. August 16.

Havana Cuba August 16.
Since the subject of immigration in Cuba was
last mentioned in these letters. the Havana I'M
migration Bureau has made its report for July
Two things may be observed OF this report
Since the establishment of the bureau, and until
recently. much opposition has been manifested
toward the method of receiving immigrants.
The present report shows that in July, in a camp
of two hundred immigrants. there was no sick
ness The result has been for the opposition in
some measure to decrease. The other important
fact to be observed from this report is that the
number of immigrants discharged from the sta
ton to Havana during the month was DDS, and
that of these 10 were Spanish and fty-eight
Chinese. In other words, not one American i'm
migrant arrived from the station in Havana in
July. This least does not indicate rapid
Americanization of the island by of i'm
migration from the United States. OF the fifty
eight Chinese immigrants landed at Havana
most were immunes, and the stay of the ma
jority in Havana is only temporary II is not
improbable that some of them are making OF
Cuba half way station to entry into the United
States, where nearly all Cinnamon on this side
of the world hope later to arrive
Washington dispatches to Havana indicate that
some action concerning immigration may be
looked for from the coming Congress in the
United States. It is almost certain that this
will be of the first problems to be considered
by the future Cuban Congress-
Apropos of this subject, so far as it affects
Cuba, the Washington correspondent of the Fa-
vana "Diario de la Marina" has this to say:
The New York Tribune publishes an interest
ing letter from Havana concerning immigration
in Cuba The conclusion which the writer
reaches is this: In future workingmen will
come chiefly from Spain, as they have come in
the past; and those who look to see Cuba Amer
icanized will be disappointed"
suppose this matter win be one of the first
which the Cuban Congress will study and settle.
Already The Tribune correspondent attributes
to it the intention to pass laws against all immi-
grafton which is not of Spanish blood.
/ think the conclusion which the author of the
letter arrives at is unanswerable The greatest
immigration to Cuba win be Spanish, because
Spanish Portuguese and South of Italy irnrni-
grafton is of all European immigration the most
readily adaptable to the tropics. The Portuguese
have start in Brazil, and the Italians will
hardly come to Cuba long they find well
paid work in. the Argentine and the United
States. In the United States they have made
themselves indispensable for rough work, be
cause they work harder and are less vicious than
the negroes and contented with less wages
than other whites. 1 have read that the per-
centage OF those who live in South America is
greater than the percentage in the United States.
1t is easier for them, it seems, TO become Argen-
tfnians, Orientars or Brazilians than Americans
They usually marry only with Italians, and
most of them, when they have made & little
money, return to their country to invest IT, and
then come back to the United States to make
more, to repeat the operation. AS there are
other kinds of immigration to the United States
tnlS. naDlL OF tAe 1LdlldUS uOeS little ndTu II
none but Italians came the population would not
increase niue and there would be a drainage of
gold already /, tnciently scarce. Next to the
Chinese the Italians consume least. They live
farinaceous foods, drink water and do not
feel the need of clean and comfortable home;
while on the contrary the workmen who come
from the North of Europe are always greedy.
not only for their material welfare, but also for
their intellectual betterment Only by seeing in
the United States how the many Swiss, German
and Finnish workmen live, and dress their
women, and how they educate their children,
can any idea be had of how the world has ad-
vanced and of the high grade of civilization Of
this country
If the Italiaps should take root in Cuba,
many of them are taking root in South America,
ants will speak Spanish and will be Cubans.
But, in of doubt, it would be better to
favor Spanish immigration, if it is necessary to
favor any, which is what is done in Chill. The
island is wanting in population that there
will be room in it for the Spanards and for
others.
If the Spanards from the Peninsula come now
they Will probably come in greater numbers
when an immigration service is established and
well organized Some twenty thousand Went to
the Argentine last year 1t will not be difficult
to direct this current toward Cuba. But emf
grafton from Spain will necessarily continue to
diminish, and the end of few years will be
as scarce as that from France. 1t has already
stopped in the provinces in which wealth has
developed, and where Workmen have gone from
poor regions to those in full prosperity. The
economical progress of Spain is not an airy
fable but fact recognized and proclaimed by
competent foreigners, and that progress giving
employment to all useful hands, will put an end
for those she needs she will have to find them
where she can.