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Title: Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival), 1852-1917
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e with the oldest and the greatest of the powers ofthe earth in every field of human intelligence, industry, andendeavour, and it will scarcely leave the great work it hasundertaken in Cuba to others for that final accomplishmentwhich it is best qualified to carry to perfect completion.Cuba looks to the United States for encouragement, forstrength, for education, for development, for business—forunion, shall we say ?—and, as her nearest neighbour, theUnited States will pledge itself that the Queen of the An-tilles shall not look in vain. In strong and hopeful contrast with this compulsory com-merce is the amended American tariff of Cuba, which makesno discrimination whatever against the Cuban purchaser;and now and hereafter, so long as the United States Gov-ernment controls the affairs of Cuba, the Cuban producermay sell his sugar, tobacco, fruit, iron ore, hard woods, andall that he produces to whomsoever he will; and he maybuy what he wants from whomsoever he thinks sells cheap-
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Commerce 273 est and best. He is in no way bound to the United Statesand its markets, but is perfectly free to buy his goods inEngland, or France, or Germany, or Kamschatka, or evenin Spain herself, if he can there find the best return for hismoney. We of the United States shall not so much as ex-pect that the Cuban may, from a sense of gratitude to usfor services we have rendered, give his trade to us; but weshall teach him, by the invincible example of the very bestgoods at the very lowest prices, that the markets of theUnited States present to the buyer attractions possessed byno other markets of the world, and he will learn early thathaving been his benefactor in war, we are not less so inpeace; and as we have made him free, we have no fear thathe will use that freedom to his own disadvantage. Under the reciprocity of the McKinley Tariff law, Cubaand the United States were brought more closely togetherin commercial union than ever before in their history. Nomore competent testimon

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