THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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CUBAN IMMIGRATION. 



The Secretary of the Treasury of the Re- 1905-06. 1906-07. 



public of Cuba has just issued a report on Europeans 46,566 25,114 



the immigration movement to Cuba during Asiatics 862 781 



the fiscal years ending June 30, 1906 and Americans SJSi 3,657 



1907, in which we find the following in- Others 73 20 



teresting facts : 



In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, Total 52,652 29,572 



29,572 immigrants entered Cuba. Of this 



number 22,178 came from Spain, 2,044 from A loss of 23,080 as compared with 1905-06. 



England, 1,709 from North America and Of the 1906-07 Spanish immigration, it 



the balance from other countries. Of this may be said that 10,518 were day laborers 



great Spanish immigration 18,261 were and field hands, 2,075 were traders, 2,090 



males, 3,917 females, 17,132 from 14 to 45 were barbers, shoemakers,_ etc., and 7,000 



years old and 17,737 could read and write. were without any occupation. These last 



Of the 1,709 Americans 582 went to Ha- figures include women and children, 



vana, 304 to Nuevitas and the American col- The falling off in immigration was no- 



onies near there, and 804 to Santiago de ticeable from the very beginning of the fiscal 



Cuba. Of the 22,178 Spanish 19,610 went to year of 1906-07 and to the revolution of 



Havana, 2,036 to Santiago de Cuba, and the following August, with its premonitory 



the balance scattered among seven other symptoms, is due the check in the influx of 



interior cities. immigrants, for while the 6 months end- 



The emigration from Spain in 1905-06 ing December, 1905, shows the entry of 



was more than double that of 1906-07, or 34,399 as against 16,303 persons for the 



44,672 persons, while the American immi- same period ending December, 1906, that for 



gration was 2,384. The total immigration the 6 months ending June 30, 1906. recorded 



was 52,652 in the preceding year. _ _ the arrival of but 18,253 immigrants as 



A summary for the two years' immigra- against 13,269 for the same period in the fis- 



tion gives the followinfr results : cal year ending June 30, 1907. 



NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO CUBA. 



A happy New Year to the 



From people of the beautiful Island 



President of Cuba, and may all peace, 



Roosevelt, prosperity and happiness be 



theirs in the future, and may 



all honor follow and be under the flag of 



the star and the tri-color. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 

 I hope that the Cuban people will con- 

 tinue to grow in prosperity, political 

 strength, and conservatism. Their experi- 

 ence in the past, if it is to 

 From be of value to them, has 

 Secretary taught them the necessity of 

 Taft. self-restraint, for subordina- 



tion of private ambitions to 

 the good of the state, and for the uphold- 

 ing of law and order at every cost. These 

 are the elements necessary to make a perma- 

 nent and solid government, preserving the 

 rights of life, liberty and property for all. 

 Such a government is the greatest boon 

 that can come to the Cuban people. — Ex- 

 tract' from a letter addressed to the Wash- 

 ington (D. C.) correspondent of the Diario' 

 de la Marina, who was also the bearer of 

 an autograph greeting- given above by 

 President Roosevelt. 



The past year has been, for 

 From Cuba, a period of constant ad- 

 Governor vancement in material pros- 

 Magoon. perity and political develop- 

 ment. Commerce, both for- 

 eign and domestic, has thrived ; the harvest 

 season now at hand gives promise of 

 abundant yield and the prevailing prices 



for Cuban products assure substantial 

 profits and an enormous addition to the 

 national wealth. The census enumeration 

 just completed shows a large and gratifying 

 increase in our population. Providence 

 has smiled upon this favored island and 

 the works of man have prospered, and the 

 Cuban people contemplate the present with 

 satisfaction and look to the future with 

 confidence. 



The year of 1907 ends to- 



From the day. It may be called in Cuba 



Diario de la a year of drought, of strikes, 



Marina, and of millions supplied to 



December agriculture and to road con- 

 31, 1907. struction work. The drought 

 finally ended, but there is 

 as yet no ending to the idleness 

 of our workmen. Neither the rail- 

 way strike nor the masons' strike is 

 wholly settled yet, and we are threatened 

 with further strikes of truckmen and of 

 cigarmakers. And the Federation says that 

 the laborers of Cuba are closing the year 

 gloriously. -Four years ago a workmen's 

 paper of Gijon made ,the same statement 

 under similar strike conditions as obtain 

 in Cuba, and in a short time, thanks to la- 

 bor troubles, the industrial movement of 

 the great Austrian city ceased completely 

 and thousands of laborers were forced to 

 emigrate. Many of them are repeating 

 that experience in Cuba. And if they tri- 

 umph, they will put an end to industry 

 here also, and will have to undertake again 

 the eternal pilgrimage in search of work. 



