REVENUE. 



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the labor of the country, while the system of non- 

 paid officials and officers of justice, tends to throw 

 the burden of their support upon the poor, it being 

 notorious that the wealthy can obtain favor by perso- 

 nal influence. Thus, nearly the whole burden of the 

 State is thrown upon the common people, which 

 tends to accumulate wealth in the hands of the few, 

 making the rich richer, and the poor poorer, to the 

 manifest disadvantage of the common weal. 



With such a buoyant prosperity, what might we 

 not hope from Cuba, if the millions which are now 

 drawn from the fountains of her wealth to support a 

 foreign and corrupt government, and a large non- 

 producing armed force, were allowed to flow in their 

 natural channels, to the reward of labor, the increase 

 of individual wealth, and the advance of the public 

 welfare.] 



