Cuban Cane Sugar 



the tempestuous pirate-times of cen- 

 turies ago. 



If we look at Cuba's less fortunate 

 neighbors and at the sugar belt 

 which girdles the earth it would 

 seem as if the same tropical rains and 

 sunshine which are needed for the 

 production of cane also conspire to 

 form an ideal atmosphere for foment- 

 ing political unrest. Hayti, Guate- 

 mala, San Salvador, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Colombia 

 all of these are sugar producing 

 countries on a limited scale, but so 

 subject to outbreaks are they, that 

 their sugar industries have never 

 presented an inviting appeal to the 

 capital necessary to bring them to 

 their maxima. 



In Mexico, from which much might 

 otherwise be expected, there is chaos, 

 and the threat of continued chaos, 

 while Cuba, much better suited by 

 soil and climate to sugar production, 

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