The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

capture a big share of the worlds mar
| kets, but, above all, it ought to figure
largely in that of the United States,
which imports the berry in greater
quantities than any other country"
Hear Little of Coffee.
| "How little we hear about Cuban cof-
| fee! 1t is all sugar and tobacco-tobac-
| co and sugar. Yet we have here every
| natural condition favoring the creation
of an immense industry, but coffee still
| remains Of little account among our
| exports.
Gwen as it is, Cuba sends out more
| home grown coffee in the year than do
| the British, French and Dutch West
Indies together. Even that is nothing,
when one thinks of what we might do.
Gust imagine the value of the United
States market! Very much the larger
part of 100000, 900 are paid every
year for the coffee imported there. And
only a mere fraction of the hundred
| thousand tons that are yearly imported
comes from Cuba. We are getting the
small end Of the stick"
"The most practical thing can say
| to you is this. Let capital-big capital
| come from the United States and work
up big thing in coffee raising and
coffee exporting. There are big profits
to be made by anyone who has the
cash and the courage to do this, be-
cause of the fine conditions which ia
vor coffee growing here and of the
nearness of Cuba to the worlds largest
coffee market-the United States.
Nobody has yet awakened to tbs
possibilities there are in this. Why,
| with the new political status of this
island the only drawback that ever did
| exist to the highly profitable pursuit
of coffee planting here has vanished.
The man who comes here to invest his
| money in the business has all things in
his favor. He must make a success
of it, he can't help doing so. He has
got the chance to help to put coffee on
the list of our exports as one of the
| most important items. There are many
fortunes in it."
Chance for Capital.
'Here we have the soil, here we
have the climate, here we have the
experience Of century and half in
| the practical work Of producing. Cap
ital can do the rest. The best market
Is close at hand. 1t is simply absurd
| that Cuban coffee shouldn't become a
| formidable rival Of the Brazilian arti-
| Gle henceforth.
II am naturally enthusiastic on the
coffee subject in the Cuban connection
1 am Of a family of producers, and my
interest In the question Is naturally
strong and my feeling over the I'M
| important figure coffee cuts among ouI
| exports is very sincere.
ITO carry the business to its proper
point of development, to put 1t where
! it might be and ought to be, Is one OF
my ideals. Rather should say that
| my hope is to see it put in its legiti-
| mate place in our export commerce by
enterprising capitalists who are sensi-
| BILE enough to see the situation and
| quick enough to seize the opportunity
| Incidentally, of course, I should profit
myself by boom In the coffee pro-
| ducing industry, as would everybody
I else who is at present engaged in It,
| But that is merely detail. 1t is those
who with large financial resources
| have the chance to embark on an ex-
| tensive scale in coffee planting here
| who will be the ones to build UP the
] trade in a really adequate sense and