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Show STOCK MARKET LITTLE AFFECTED BY THE STIR IN CUBA; SHOWS CONFIDENCE I v "IrW TOBK, Sept. 24. Tha Times todaj states that ersnts la Cuba havs bees viewed . with comparative com-parative indifference here and abroad, and their progress from bad to worse has been reflected in bat small meaa-ure meaa-ure in the stoek rohrketa. which, after all, are the best index of the minds of that part of the public at least with interests in-terests at stake. Cuban bondholders have remained calm and the obligations of the new Republic Re-public have lost only 4V4 points since the early days in Augnst when the ramblinjrs of the embryo insurrection were first heard. At the bottom of this confidence here and abroad is the knowledge that our Government, under the provisions of the Piatt amendment, is the rsponsible (ruardian of the Cuban peace. Financial Finan-cial interests have supreme confidence in this Government 'a abilitv to put an instant quietus to the fighling on the island just as soon as intervention becomes be-comes a necessity. . Cuban development has gone on at a marvelous pace since the American occupation oc-cupation under the stimulus of American Amer-ican and English capital. It is estimated esti-mated that the American capital how in Cuba amounts to f 200,00u,000 and the sum of the English investments foots up to about the same total. |