The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-04-25
AN NEXATI0N
OF THE ISLAND.
Cuba is Necessary to the United States, says
Senator Morgan--Congressman New
lands of Like Views

Joseph Obi. in Atlanta constitutional
WASHINGTON, Aprill2.-(S pecial)
ITO tell you the truth, am not caring
very much about this proposed tariff
reduction. What / am interested in
more than anything else is that any
step which Congress may take shall be
taken with view to facilitating the
annexation of Cuba to the United
States.n
This was the reply of Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, to me when ques-
toned him concerning his position to-
ward the pending Cuban bill.
Scuba" he continued, is as neces-
sary to the United States as Ireland is
to Great Britain. 1t is unnecessary to
refer to that fact that this has been
recognized since the days of Thomas
jefferson. Every far-sighted American
knows to-day, as every far-sighted
American has recognized in the past,
that Cuba must eventually become a
part of the United States. | am in
clined to believe with Mr.. Newlands,
that the time has come when we should
take decisive step toward annexation.
1 do not see why we should not extend
to Cuba an invitation to come into the
Union.n
The Alabama Senator's reference
pointed particularly to the attitude of
the gentleman from Nevada as mani
tested by his vote in the Ways and
Means Committee of the House.
MR.. NEWLAND'S POSITION.
Mr.. Newlands has announced that
he will not vote for the proposed re-
duction on Cuban products unless this
is accompanied by formal invitation
to Cuba to become part Of the United
States. While he is alone of the mem
bers of the committee taking this po-
sition, there is no question that his
general views upon the subject of an
nexation are held by most of the men,
bers of both branches of Congress.
All agree that annexation is not only
inevitable, but that it is to be desired
by the United States and by Cuba. All
agree that Cuba would be valuable
addition to the Union; that under the
American flag Cuba would blossom like
the proverbial rose; and that the pros
perity for which the Cubans are now
praying would follow to an extent ex-
ceeding their fondest dreams. But
there are doubts as to whether the
time. has arrived to give formal express
sion of the American sentiment in this
respect and as to the means to best Sc
cure the desired end.
Mr.. Newlands has no doubt whatso-
ever on the subject and he has express
ed his views in way calculated to
carry conviction to those who study
them. Mr.. Newlands is man of af-
fairs, business man who has exer-
cised in his study of the situation in
Cuba the best of business sense.
NEwLANDs ON PENDING BILL.
With regard to this reciprocity bill
he takes the position that Cuba's pres
emit request is unquestionably stimu-
lated by the sugar refining trust of
America, whose interest it is to de-
velop the sugar cane industry in Cuba,
because it is in handling the cane SUI
gar, and not the beet sugar, that the
refining trust is able to secure a profit
approximating $40 ton. The present
proposition, which implies not reduc-
ton of the price which the American
consumer will pay, but an increase, at
the American consumers expense, of
the price which the Cuban planter will
receive, could not, he contends, be en-
tertained for a moment were it not for
the peculiar relations of Cuba to this
country. He holds, however, that Gu
ba has no more right to demand tariff
concessions from us than she has from
any other country. There is no pres
emit distress in Cuba where labor is in
great demand, but the planters, owing
to the heavy expenses due to their eff
forts to resuscitate their great indus
try, are heavily indebted to the banks,
and unless they are able to secure a
better price for their product, they
claim that their plantations will be
foreclosed and sold.
Mr.. Newlands points out that our
government has never considered it
one of it's duties to relieve the people
of the United States from the results
of depression coming from natural
causes throughout the world, as is the
case in Cuba. "We have" he says,
passed through panics of every kind,
through financial crisis, through liq-
uidation, through readjustment, and
there has been no suggestion that the
government should come to the relief
of our people who are in distress. How,
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