New-York tribune., 1902-01-15
CUBA'S NEEDS.
GENERAL WOOD DECLARES THAT WITHOUT
TARIFF RELIEF A STABLE GOVERN
MENT is IMPoSSIBLEE.

General Leonard Wood. in The Outlook.
We have occupied Cuba for three and one-haf ali
years and have done much to assist her people oy
contributions of food troops to maintain order ETC.
1s nd Tns tn sae or ad dTecy her two great in
dustries assistance to which would have TENDED I'M
Island ..,,.
visions of the Platt amendment have done much to
are not maintained by legislative measures solely;
material resources are required Cuba cannot man
her @ I In to qSh ay 9SaGn %a ased e
other countries. Cubas ability to maintain stable
which she hardly out Of the ruin caused by the
compete with the bounty fed sugars Of Europe and
the highly protected sugars OF the United states
sraVe DOUBT and II we leave her under the
tariff conditions we do so knowing that It Is highly
q government as we have declared she shall estao-
This is position the United States cannot afford
to take. 1t means the ruin Of the great industries @
totally unnecessary and benefit eft no No OF one and viii VII
nS their fST all e 1Ss S gOoa our T good Gf &
We produce about four hundred and nifty thou;
in the countries belonging to the United states
million tons more: and we import from Europe be-
tween hundred thousand and eight hundred
ali Of Cuba's sugar crop were admitted without any
duty it would not necessarily affect the price OF the
sugar. which amounts to about one-third OF our
arFeS the price be Of the VIII
Cuba cannot expect free sugar. but she can expect
will be made on the duties which her sugars pay on
ens " she ecnroctS and even if she
could not, the Platt amendment proposed by US and
moral obligation to see to it that Cuba is Justly
treated by us and enabled to live UP to Its require
The total amount of sugar produced within the
sugar raising is only one-ffth OF our consumption.
This indicates very clearly that 1t Will be many
before 1t be increased to sufficient extent TO
II there were no increase in the consumption but.
when II is remembered that the consumption Is rap
pounds per capita less than the consumption IN
IL The 1t u1n T be S baa aha sugar. Should
place in the future there will still be large feld
Of greatest p PROSPERITY. Produced a little less than
one million two hundred a tons shs OF 1 sugar
exceed this amount for number Of years TO come
ton Of the duty Cuban sugar will In no manner
be to the disadvantage Of any person nov engaged
this % s9 k Is nt 70 IeaGd fne 3S n
BayaFd cuttng R eadng American
sugar and president and director. respectively.
the beet sugar industry and its prospects. Their
asy The island Of Cuba is 80 situated that its
sugar industry can rapidly recover the ground lost
question t er be
eq @ to the a in
our day expand to the point where the United ed
importers. and hence that protection would no
We have taken Cuba from Spain and broken up
very largely such special trade relations as she had
ha WE 1as Fs ro.nS to estah hep as stabie goy
eminent. We have admitted times without number
kind Of assistance but we have kept up against her
sa1Ussa as eh W 19s o
as against our most dangerous commercial rivals.
for the struggle AGAINST yellow fever ia
millions dollars
year, and In years OF great epidemics in which the
loss in money has been beyond computation and the
loss Of life great Are to establish the
It must inevitably permit these conditions to recur
Of lack 1T ensan We sonr to pe
NIT the school system. the system of hospitals
go to nney to nes o
our coast government t which unless @ we give its
| a menace to us. and undoubtedly necesstate an
idieness and poverty and compel do again
| the work which has cost us up to date some thou
question is practical one and very broad one Our
OF rons to- EXIST In cSa q b
Country going to be seifsustaining prosperous and
Sa or is e 20 No @
dustry is threatened by reasonable concessions to
able consideration for Cuba will be other than bene
hsWs 10 a p.ops should mpe us to bend every
energy Il toward making Cuba such neishbor as viii
q. 1 and
up healthy. ssif-respsctinMg SELF M people Sa1ano .,
been over 100000 against the island Her people
to build up their industries but they cannot go on
more snan they c receive & any and
hundred thousand tons. represents their supreme
Which Win peneq
position most deplorable and ours most embarrass-
miscellaneous.