Show OUlI The rhe News tho ho receipt of Monthly Summary of Commerce of ot the lie th Island of Cuba August 1901 with complements of ot Henry Pap Page collio collector tor of It II Is a large pamphlet containing much mud valuable information on tho tue vulture commerce and Industries of ot the he Island that Is 18 about to launch out ns as a afree 1 afree free tree and independent state It shows that the tie resources of ot the he country cou II t 1 lire are such that It If properly developed tIre the most for tho Ito future 1111 provided tire the people will work vork for fol the tire common interest The pamphlet shows that lint the tho manu matu manufacture facture of Qt sugar is hi progressing with modern Coffee Cortee I generally destroyed during luring the Ire war Will but reconstruction has halt hn commenced In one province Farina anti cattle arid and l special ranches nr nn ate being restored activity Is la displayed In the build lag InK up liP of ot small farms rue Tho chief chlof products seem to bo be corn and beans boons of ot which winch two crops are arc hammed every evory year ono one In tho Ito wot wet and ono one In tho the dry season Pens lons unit and rico tico do rio well Veil Tire Tho former are sown aon all nil tho the year round anti and are picked as liS soon a nil as ripe oats arc aro ens ensly ly lIy cultivated but hut It seems no one line has devoted Iris his hl land hind to those except Its is s an nn experiment Tire The Indian fig tree grows wild willi arid and an abundant variety of ot fruit is grown Irown Hubber cotton colton hemp eon can bo ho grown to advantage Somo Some countries by nature less Iou boun bountifully endowed Cuba have haYe started as nil independent dono well Hut But success has lias been b n achieved by the tho people devoting themselves to the tIre de do development of tho hue natural resources and keeping heaping p ao with tire the neighbors Cuba Culm should do ito ns as well u nil its It If not bettor better b than some come ot or the small Huro luro I uro TItan ican states that now enjoy material prosperity to a ii high degree Tho turning over of ot tho the Cuban gov government go to the thu Cubans Is II a n most Im ha event In he history of or the Isi lal nail and also of ot this government Dur fur DurInG InG ng the hio Q the tho United States line hns ad all admInistered mInistered tho the affairs of tire the island the tho Ire have been be n given a n great grent op up opportunity to set seo and study government administration and MI no doubt th they y have hare greatly by b the opportunity A it month und and a Ii half and they will willo lie 10 o In control of their heir own affairs That they hey wilt will make somo omo soul blunders ut rut t first firsts is III s inevitable plenty of It blunders ur arl are by hy governments government many malty decades older hiatt Cubas anti and they will con to be made so long n III as they the are nrc run rita by man May Cuba realize nil nit her hopes hope aspirations and become a n happy prosperous country May her Iter future be as nl bright as rum her past has JUlY been lJean lark |