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ECONOMIC SITUATION IN CUBA.
We
have
been
ask:dto
publish
the
following extract
of
a
letter by Mr.
A.
J. Thompson,
of Havana,
to the ‘‘Lousi-
ana- Planter,””
which
carries
moral
and
tells
a good
tale.
last
season
I saw
a
young
negro who
had just received
SSO
as
a
cane
cutter
for work
of probably
two
weeks.
He
wore patent leather
shoes,
white
flannel
trousers,
a
straw
hat
with
a
silk
band
and
a
goid
ring
and
stick
pin.
With
his
SSO.
he
bought
at
the
plantation
store
ten
silk
ties
at
$3 each
and
two
bottles of perfume
at
$lO
a bottle.
Another
instance
of some
of the past
economic
errors
of
Cuba
came
to
my
attention
during
one
of
my
lonz
horseback
rides
through
the
interior.
About
noon
one
day
we
came
to
a
little hut with an earthen
floor.
The
oc-
cupants
were
a
man
of about
50
and
his wife four
children.
My companion
and
myself
asked
for
a little coffee,
intending
to proceed
on
our journey afterward;
but
in
the truly
delightful manner
of
the Cuban guajiro
(farmer)
he insisted
on
our dismounting
and
eotering
his
hut.
The
family
had just had
their almuerzo
(noon meal
and
on the
rough
nailed
boards
consti-
tuting the
dining table
were
a package
of cut
sugar
from
Brooklyn,
two
emp
ty cans of the finest bouneless
French
sar-
dines on
olive
oil,
empty cans
of breast
of chicken,
three
empty
cans
of
Cali-
fornia
giant
asparagus,
two glass
jars
of costly
American
bacon
and
a
tin
of
golden rusks.
These
things
are
expen-
sive enough
in
any big city
in the Uni-
ted
States,
Lut to
find them
in
the
in-
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.
1. U
S. A
.
SATURDAY
15tH
OCTOBER
19Z1
terior of
the isiand
of
Cuba
means
that
they cost
the consumer
about
three-
times
the original retail
price.
After
coffee
the farmer
said
he would
accompany
us
to
the town,
about
eight
miles away,
and begged
a minute
or
two
delay while
he
chased
round
and caught
a
pig.
He
tied
its
legs
with
heavy
cord (rsade
in
the
United
States)
lifted
it
on
his
saddle
(made
in
the
United
States)
and
sc¢
joined
ts
for
the
jinr-
ney to the
town
store.
This
man carried
the pig
to
the
store
and sold it
for cash,
and
with
this cash
in the
same
store,
he
loaded
his
sad-
dle
bags
with
tins
of sausages
made
in
Chicago,
tins
of iard, rice,
more bacon
in
glass jars,
ink fish
in cans,
pate
e
fois
gras,
French
peas
and
preserved
Cali-
fornia
fruits.
This is only
cne
instance
of
the
econ-
omic errors
of
the people
and for which
they
are
now
paying
the
piper.
But
this
man
still
has
his
wonderful
land
and
still
grow:
his
rich
cane,
All
he
asks
for now
is the
money
to
pay
his
laborers
so
as
to
harvest
the cane
and
keep
the fields
c¢lean
of
weeds.
During the recent
high
prices
of sugar
conditions
in Havana
reflccted
the
opu-
lence of sugar
farmers.
They poured
into
the city,
where
some
of them walked
on
sidewalk
for the first
time in their lives.
Their
pockets
were
full
of
gold
and
their heads
deveid of
any
sane
methods
of handling it.
They
bought
high-priced
American
afd foreign automobiles
and paid liveried
chauffeurs
their own price
to drive them
—with goscline at 54 cents
a gallon.
A farmer entered
the
largest
diamond
stores
in Havana.
He
was
wearing
the
typical Panama
hat
of the
country folks
the rest of his
custom
was
a
blue shirt
with
pockets
like
a
coat
and
with tne
tails
outside
his
trousers
and
a
stiff
starched
pair
of
crude
linen
trousers
creased
down
the
sides
and
a
pair
of
screaming
nev
yellow
shoes
which
squeaked
at every
step
of
his stocking-
lecs
feet
He
said
to
the
attendant:
“I have
no
jewelry
of
any kind, and[
want
to get fixed up.”’
He selected
a jewelled
gold wateh,
a
pearl
and
platirum
chain,
two
hand-
some
Oriental
sapphire
and
diamond
rings’’,
a beautiful pear]
and
diamond
scarf pin
and
a gold
and
diamond cigar-
ette
case.
“‘Well Chico,
how
much
is
all
this?”’
The clerk figured
and reglied s*'lo,soo.”’
The
farmer
looked
at
his
purchase
again and said
“‘Well
all right but put
NO,
241,
in about
4,500
more
and
then
I’'ll
be
all right.”’
That farmer
is back
now on the farm.
He is eating
rice
and
beans
and
work-
ing eightesn
hofirs
a
day.
His
lands
are
producing
the
same
old 1,000
tons
of cane
a
caballeria
and
iastead
of pay-
ing his
cane
cutters
$7.50
to $lO
a
day
he is promising
‘hem $1 a
day and
their
food.
The farmer
can
keep
this up
as
long
as he
has
the
rice
and
beans
but
our
bankers
and
politicians
must
see
that
his snpplies
do not stop,
otherwise
his
fields
will
grow
full
of
weeds
and
instead
of produecing
1,000
tons
of cane
a caballeria
of land
he will be
producing
only 100 tons
and
that
will
soon
reflert
itself
in
Cuba’s
ability
to
prodiice
su-
gar
at low prices
If this
is
neglected
$600,000,000
of
American
capital
now
invested
in
the
sugar
industry
in Cuba
will be
partially
or totally lost
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