The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-27
TROOPS WILL LAND
IN CUBA SATURDAY
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none at all on land as land, but always
on the improvements. Consequently
land than any state or territory of the
union, many times over. It costs moth
ing to hold land, and for that reason it
is held The natural result is that
there is an immense amount of dissat-
isfaction as there must always be in a
country where most Of the people have
no permanent anchor.
Then take the means of raising the
revenues by which the movement is
supported. First, they have the Gus
toms charges. Then the improvements
on property. Then the licenses on the
industries. That covers it all and, as
you can see, it always and forever
bears upon the industries Of the peo-
pie and never in a single instance upon
what we in this country love to call
the unearned increment.
System Atrocious.
"The licensing system is particularly
atrocious. 1t follows the old Spanish
lines, and to illustrate: Suppose you
20 into the country and buy pig. You
get it for 50 cents and think you have
bargain, but when You bring it home
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tering license, and your bargain is all
gone. -.
"Why, since the war the value of
land in the island has gone up from 200
to 300 per cent, and all because there
is no equality Of treatment there-be-
cause land is the one untaxed thing
man can own.
Glands cannot be broken up into
small holdings, because for one thing,
it costs too much to make the trans;
fers. All deeds go back to the original
grant from the crown.
ct have seen deed for a piece of
land sold for "a 900 and the deed cost
as much as the land, there being hun
dreds of pages setting forth every
transfer from the beginning in detail
and all charged for by the notaries who
made it out, and who have the charg-
ing system down to fine point.
Don't Want Annexation.
$50, while the price has gone up,
because everybody thought indepen-
dence would bring great prosperity, the
transfers have been few. and those that
| were made were in most cases for large
tracts.
to the United states-that is, the land
less people do not. They want some Of
the rosy prospects realized that were
held out to them when the war for in
dependence was in progress. The men
who own the property want annexation,
and so do the forei gn owners Of lands
and railroads and mines and other con-
cessions. They want it for the reason
that they know there is no hope of bet
ter conditions under Cuban control.
| "The sugar and tobacco planters
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. output goes to the United States, and
as It is, they pay every year into the
United States treasury over 1000, 900
in customs which otherwise would re-
main in their pockets. The tobacco
trust also wants it because it would
save money on all tobacco brought
from Cuba, but the sugar trust does
not because if the duty on sugar were
to be removed it would all be refined in
Cuba before being shipped to this
country and sold directly from the Gu
ban refneries to the jobbers in this
country and the trust would not get a
would be sold as the sugar from the
beet sugar factories is now sold in this
country.
Annexation Only Hope.
GAS the tariff now stands, refined
sugar has to pay such a heavy duty
that it does not pay to import it. Hence
the trust, having all the refneries, gets
all that comes from abroad and reines
it in this country. If Cuba were to bt
annexed the sugar trust would have NJ
comes from Germany and other Euro
pean countries and that would not b.
enough TO enable it to dominate TIT
market.
"But it is perfectly apparent tina
there is no ultimate hope for the islant
except in annexation. With such &.
population in such a dissatisfied condi
ton there will be nothing but war al
long as the natives are left in control
They want what they thought the,
, were going to get when they were fight
, ing against Spain, and as any man cal
see they are not going. to get lit, or any
thing else, except chance to work a
small wages for the comparative,
small group that owns everything.
.'This for them is exactly as it wa
before the war with Spain, and there
fore in that climate it will always b,
, easier for men to bushwhack for a iv
ing than to submit to intolerable ant
hopeless labor conditions. The onl,
real chance the island has lies in uniol
; with the United States and American
=, laws that will enable an industriou
T. man to acquire home Of his own.
J Roosevelt Knows It.
r "Mr. Roosevelt understands it an,
! while for political reasons he woul,
: doubtless have preferred to refrain
: from Intervention, and he may still fr,
to put off annexation by one expedien
or another, he knows that if he doe
: not intervene there will not be enoug
5 property left in the island in fey
a months to make a note Of. Under tn
= Plat amendment that would mean tina
0 the United States, by not stopping tn
/ plundering and burning, becomes re
s sponsible for the damages and in an
|. court of international arbitratio
h would be made to pay.
d $50 he has to Intervene or run tn
h risk Of either paying big bills to fol
q eigners owning property in Cuba or Q
G war with some one or more foreig
e powers over his alleged wanton neglec
to protect that which we under tn
: Monroe doctrine. hold no foreign ns
J. ton may protect. It is not nice pos
Il ton for the president to be in, but
am satisfied that there is no way on
except for the United States to tax
full control of everything in Cuba an
J that is what I expect to see done.''
MOVES FOR BETTER MARKE
Saltwater Would Guarantee Farme,