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hand-to-mouth fashion, so too has 

 she conducted the marketing of this, 

 her most important crop. 



Cuba's cane-growers have always 

 been at the mercy of the fluctuations 

 of the market at the mercy, some- 

 times, of artificial conditions created 

 for the purpose of making the mar- 

 ket fluctuate. The growers, in times 

 of plenty, have been compelled to sell 

 at a low market, and have found 

 tnemselves, later, in times of scarcity 

 and with prices soaring, without a 

 product to deliver. The producer 

 thus has suffered, at no advantage 

 to the consumer. Nature has made 

 Cuba strong in sugar, but ineffi- 

 ciency has made her weak in finance, 

 and she has been pinched and 

 squeezed in times when she might 



as easily have dictated. 



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Cuba's great opportunity, thus, 

 will belong to Capital fearless capi- 



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