The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-01-10

DO you ever think OF the result 10
the negro in the south from depressing
the sugar and tobacco business? The
cotton pickers of tine new South now
only earn from GO to 10 cents per day.
Can we afford to give generous tips to
Cuba, and ignore these people at home?
1T is estimated that the direct in
vestment. mills. machinery, etc, in
Louisiana is S1OOO0OOOO. The indirect
investment down there is from $4,000
600 to So. 200. 600. DO you suppose we
could wipe out this business without
feeling 1t up here in Minnesota? II
would be felt all over the United
States"
OBLIGATIONS TO CUBA.
Regarding the argument that the
United tSates has a duty to perform
in placing cuba on a prosperous bust
ness basis and that reciprocity is the
best medium. as well as a help to Amer
lean trade, MIR. Gregg said:
1T is not fair to say we have a duty
to perform in giving Cuba an amount
; Of prosperity through reciprocity that
will ensure the success of the independ-
cnt government In the face of the eX-
: penditures of this government to free
Cuba and to keep order for the last
. three years and in the face of the po-
) litical reciprocity arrangement through
} the Plat amendment, which guaran-
} tees cuba stable government and pc
ltical protection, 1t is hard h see what
more cuba has a right to ask OF US.
FOR as we have done for her and
expect to do for her in the future, the
net result to us amounts to little more
than a few coaling stations.
"In spite of the glib way in which
) corresponds refer to our Posses
. sions" and include cuba in the list with
Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Philip
pines, we all know Cuba is an indie
pendent country over which we pre-
tend to exert no permanent authority.
"The Cuban people have a wonderful
ly fertile island which can produce
! vast quantities of sugar and tobacco,
) but Cuba doesn't have to raise sugar
; and tobacco alone. Diversified farming
is just as good a gospel to preach to
them as to preach to our own farmers.
They can just as well raise rubber,
|, hemp, rice, coffee, copra, qunine
spices, tea, tropical fruits and many
= other similar products in vastly larger
n quantities than they do now But they
= do not want to bother with these
n things; they want to raise sugar anC
- to,,1, ,t,a,, ,,i,, A., !, =, 40 ,,,ir os III,
- haot sraar hrs;nass ~ tho nortb RI.
- :, o,,o 80 h,,si,,o.s 90 +ta o,,,r ct,ta
ona ,ha tohocon iptarosts tb,ougbnu
rs the East and South.
70 I'm short, If we refuse reciprocity Il
)" cub ,,.a ,,,uI ,n,,a har ,,to ,t,,orsis, .,
:, forni,"
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-
=, cuba is not in danger OF bankruptc!
~ II we do not grant her reciprocity
Conditions on the islah" are bette
than most people are aware of. Thi
~ country has already done great dea
II for the Pearl of the Antilles. Look a
the condition of the Cubans when TIT
" United States interviewed in her affairs
starvation and restitution were gen
- eral. Today the improvement ~ con
dltions can best be SHOWN by the rae
~ that common labor on the plantations
- Is receiving u per Day Ihat docs no
> look like bankruptcy, This Wiz no
change for the worse except as tbs
market is manipulated for political ca
l. feet
i The Cubans are delivering suga
T. now in New York at 3A cents pc
pound; they paying the duty. Befort
IA the sugar trust made its recent grea
le reduction, they were getting aoout A.
v cents out of the present price of 81
:. cents per pound must be deducted tn
N following:
&C. Duty, Sl.6oia; ocean freight, pack
Y ages, storage and transportation II
" Cuba, about 80 cents per hundre,
l. weight, which leaves to the planter
s. o. b. his works in Cuba, about SILL
is per pound
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