The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-30
MORE TROUBLE FOR CUBA.

History appears to be repeating IT.
self in Cuba, and appears to be repeat
ing itself very fast, Events there
come along Just about as before, much
as in recurring periods Of declmals'
No sooner does native Cuban gov
ernmcnt get itself established, and the
American forces withdrawn, than there
is a counter movement to dlspiace 1T,
an impossibility of fusing the Cuban
partisanships, an upheaval and an up
roar, and loud call for American IN
tervention.
No doubt this latter will be the out
come of the present outcry against the
government of President Gomez, 1T is
announced that he has been unable to
reconcile the factions, and especially
the powerful faction of which wee
President Zayas is at the head; and
this, no doubt. means that nc Will con
tinuc to find it impossible to effect such
reconciliation,
The reason for the unrest in Cuba is
not far TO seek There have been large
American investments there, especially
by the American Sugar Trust and by
great capitalists Of the East. Immense
sums of American money have been IN
vested in Cuban plantations, and gen
orally in the sugar business, as well
as in other enterprises. The American
Sugar Trust owns large plantations
there, but it has to pay duty on the
sugar it raises and the crude sugar 1T
imports into the United States. What
it wants is not to pay any duty on that
sugar, but to bring 1T to tins country
free, for the purpose of refining 1t and
selling it to the American people at as
low cost to the Trust as possible, and
as high price to the people. The
American plantation owners IN Cuba
arc easily persuaded by the Trust that
their sugar would bring more if Cuba
were made n practical part of the
United States, the same rs Porto Rico
is with no duties to collect on the ship
ments Of Cuban sugar TO this country.
1t is very easy for the interests in
volved in the American sugar business
in Cuba to stir UP irreconcilable con
tention among the Cuban politicians,
who are naturally bitter and implaca-
BILE enemies, and each bent on having
his own way Events have proved that
all of those Cuban politicians are will
ing to yield supremacy TO the American
Government, but they are not willing to
yield supremacy to any of their rivals.
It is all the easier, therefore, for the SUI
gar interests to keep affairs stirred up in
Cuba. The ultimate aim, of course, is
to have Cuba absorbed by the United
States, so that the sugar interests can
make more money by not having to pay
customs duty on their imports of sugar
from Cuba.
1t is an entirely feasible game, and
it is played right along with the ut
most skill. There will be no cessation
Of the assault against President Co
mez. His government will undoubtedly
have to go down, just as preceding Gu
ban governments have gone down, and
there will be a loud call upon the
United States TO intervene in the in
forests of peace and order; and the
United States will Intervene, as a mat
ter of course, Just as it has done be-
fore. This repeated few times will
convince all concerned that the occu-
pancy of Cuba by the United States
forces and the taking over by us of
the Cuban administration will be the
best thing all around. And then will
come the clamor to have Cuba put on
| the same footing as Porto Rico. We
believe that this is the real programme !;
that it is being practically worked to,
and that in the end it will succeed