Show SUGAR TRUST MAY PURCHASE CUBA Evolves or Accepts an Ambitious Suggestion Understand the Island is For Sale and Beady Cash Would at Qnce and Forever Settle l Differences V i New York June 21A dispatch to I the Herald from Washington says Astor A-stor is current that the sugar trust has evolved or accepted an ambitious suggestion that Cuba Is substantially for sale and might as well become a sugar plantation for a gigantic corporation corpo-ration supported by the sympathy and the interest of our country In other words that we might have a West Indian In-dian company as England had and a Hudson Bay company each of which aided vastly In the extension of the i I I British empire I is said that the I Spanish minister to the United States cabled recently to Madrid reports of J the disposition of our government to i decline to Interfere by force and also J to support Cuban autonomy and that 1 I this I cable prevented the recall of Wey ler when a change in the Spanish ministry min-istry was In the air to send to Cuba i Campos who closed the ten years war with cash In hand and might do the I same job now by the same means much cheaper than Spain can keep 200000 soldiers In the field Immediately Colonel J J McCook Is the gentleman credited with the imagination to conceive con-ceive the capture of Cuba with cash as a measure of peace This as Colonel McCook understands i is merely n matter of business The idea runs thIs way Spain has already charged to Cuba a debt of 400000000 and under Spams dominion the island can never yield u revenue amounting to onehalf the interest in-terest Cuba without a post or town or ship has a national debt and yet there are many who think the credit of the Cuban should be as good if not better than that of Ssaln Suppose there was a company commanding com-manding money to take up the whole Cuban debt with the war debt of such as charged to Cura at its market rate say 50000 I 000 and JEO000000 for the Spanish Span-ish rights in Cuba and the Cuban I rights in the forests and mines and in settling American and Cuban laims against Spain and the United States would guarantee bonds to the amount of 100000000 at 3 per cent and supervise i super-vise and administer the customs of the ports of Cuba for the payment of I the interest the government holding I the bonds as security would not Jib erty and peace and prosperity for the island be accomplished at the cost of 3000000 a year taken out of the Cuban Cu-ban customs house Incidentally It would seem there must be an immense tax to the managers of what might be called the Cuban trust The advantage to the Spaniards would be peace and the extinction of some hundred millions of hopeless debt for the creditors of Spain would be glad to scale her obligations and s he cpuld have a large sum of money in hand instead of aCuba of blood and a loss on her nanus I The gain to Cuba would be a i government by a corporation lim i lIed instead of a crown abo j I lute and there could be a contract con-tract guaranteeing civil liberty to i the people on its models There would I be money for roads and schools andS and-S sanitary measures and there would lp I as a necessity of Internal adminlstra I tion such measure of self governmentS S as would maintain order through a police po-lice force with American and Cuun volunteers to deal with brigandage The municipal problems could be dealt with by the municipalities and I adjustments made for the admimstra I tion of Justice and payment of worthy i pensioners With the Introduction o f i American energies and the security of i capital made plain by the visible presence pres-ence of security Cuba would yield wealth beyond the dream of avarice avar-ice The revenue In the days of te ciprocitv with us was In excess of S30000000 and it would rise far beyond that figure within a few years of this I magnificent business management |