THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER COMMENT. 



The steady increase in our 

 Steady sales to Cuba is the more not- 

 Increasein able since we have had to 

 Sales. create a market there for our 

 products, while our market 

 for Cuba's chief products^sugar and to- 

 bacco — had been long established. We have 

 had also to compete with the manufactur- 

 ers of European countries, to which the 

 Cubans had formerly looked largely for 

 their supplies. Yet we have been gaining 

 on these countries, for- while the island's 

 newborn prosperity has greatly enlarged its 

 purchasing power, we have not only held 

 our share of this increase, but have made 

 further progress at the expense of Euro- 

 pean shippers. Our share of Cuba's im- 

 port trade in 1903 was 41.2 per cent. In 

 igo6 it was 46.8, and in 1907 it was prob- 

 ably over 50. — New York Tribune. 



We all remember the jere- 

 Enlarged miads that came from some 

 Markets. of our most eloquent orators 

 in Congress when Cuba reci- 

 procity was the theme — ^the tears they shed 

 over American industries of every class and 

 fashion now threatened with murder. Yet 

 Cuban reciprocity only served to increase 

 our production and open to us enlarged 

 markets. — Washington, D. C, Post. 



The reciprocity treaty has 



Reciprocity been in the interest of no one 



Opinion. class of tradesmen, but has 



benefited the manufacturer, 



the miner, the lumberman, the farmer, and, 



in fact, all who have anything to sell. 



While we are taking Cuba's sugar and 

 tobacco with no injury to our home trade 

 the island republic is furnishing to' us a 

 a profitable and rapidly increasing market 

 for commo'dities of all sorts, and at the 

 present rate of trade development soon wlil 

 be among the customers who buy more 

 than they sell us. — Pioneer Press, St. Paul, 

 Minn. 



The reciprocity treaty be- 

 Reciprocity tween the United States and 

 WifJi Cuba Cuba which has cost the 

 a "Lemon." United States loss of revenue 

 exceeding $40,000,000 and bal- 

 ance of trade of more than $60,000,000, ex- 

 pires in December next, and a bill is be- 

 ing prepared directing the president to give 

 the Cuban republic notice that at the ex- 

 piration of the period for which that treaty 

 was negotiated it will be null and void, and 

 will not be renewed. It is likely that the 

 President will make a strenuous resistance 

 since he is apparently more concerned in 

 Cuba than in a home industry, but the 

 friends of that home industry are going 

 to put 'up a strong protest against further 

 building up foreign industries at the ex- 

 pense of our own. — Bay City (Mich.) 

 Tribune. 



Following out the Amer- 

 Not Six ican idea that Cuba belongs 

 Trustzi'orthy to the Cubans, Lrovernor Ma- 

 Men goon has addressed a letter 

 in Cuba. to the leaders of these par- 

 ties, offering to replace the 

 army officers he appointed as provincial 

 governors, if the parties would get together 

 and agree upon six "trustworthy" men to 

 fill their places. 



The manner in which this proposal was 

 received is a fair comment upon the Cuban 

 character in general, and Cuban politics in 

 particular. The leaders cannot agree and 

 their conduct is virtual admission, as one 

 Cuban paper puts it, that there are not in 

 the island, with its population of nearly 

 two million souls, six men honest and 

 trustworthy enough to enjoy the confidence 

 of their political opponents — ^and that at a 

 time when the very life of the republic, as 

 an independent sovereignty, is at stake. — 

 New York Morning Telegraph. 



The United States is the 

 Annexation natural market for the pro- 

 Demand ducts of Cuba. Tariff bar- 

 from Cuba riers now intervene and al- 

 ways will with Cuba inde- 

 pendent. The owners of Cuban land, and 

 land is the chief medium of investment as 

 yet, would profit by the removal of all trade 

 barriers between Cuba and the United 

 States. If they control the new govern- 

 ment we need not be surprised to see a 

 move for annexation begin in Cuba. — Lin- 

 coln (Neb.) Journal. 



The shrinkage in Cuba's 

 Cuban sugar crop will reduce the 

 Sugar 'sland's revenue fully $25,- 

 and Politics. 000,000, and this loss will be 

 felt by all. It would manifest- 

 ly be unwise to turn over the island to 

 the Cubans when distress prevails, and the 

 belief is gaining ground that evacuation 

 will have to be postponed beyond President 

 Roosevelt's term. It may never, for that 

 matter, take place. — Herald, Birmingham, 

 Ala. 



Cuba ought to be a state of 

 Cuba the Union. Its location, its 

 Should be a nearness to the United States, 

 Part of U. S. and, above all, the improve- 

 ments in every way that have 

 been made in Cuba since it has started to 

 assimilate American ideas, ought to make 

 it a self-evident fact that the natives should 

 come in under the wing o'f Uncle Sam's 

 American eagle and be one of us and a 

 part of us. — Budget, Troy, N. Y. 



In doing his varied, complex and ardu- 

 ous work in Cuba. Mr. Magoon has acted 

 with that fine combination of firmness and 

 suavity, of authority and tact, which must 

 characterize jthe successful administrator. 

 — New York Tribune. 



