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Show j REACTION INEVITABLE What an unusual financial condition exists in Cula When tha' countr) was impoverished by wars extending over a period of ten years or more, the lauks were sound and business look its course H undisturbed Now. after three or four years of unequaled prosper-iiy. prosper-iiy. Cubs has a moratorium during which no depositor is allowed to draw on demand more than 10 per cent on accounts and 11! per cent Hj on deposits. For twe years Cuba ban been receiving Returns on sugar far be-3 be-3 oud any dream Of wealth that ever came to a dark-eyed native in 1 that dreamy country. This countr) of ours has gone through a somewhut similar ex-penence ex-penence With so much money pouring into America as to upset the rate of exchange ami with the treasury of the United States forced to take some action to cheek the flow of gold, this country finds itself at the end of three years of riotous prosperity facing a j period of readjustment which is causing no small degree of anxiety j lui the part of little and big business. Jj It seems there is no escape from reactions, whcthci a country be I rjch or por |