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Show CUBA HAS A HEADACHE. A year ago Cuba was one of the J 'most prosperous countries in the orld. Sugar was commanding un-j heard of prices and the Island republic had a big crop. Today Tuba Is going 'through a financial collapse and trou bio? are multiplying so rapidly that I there is talk of American Intervention. ' Analyzing Cuba's disorders, a stu- j dent of Cuban affairs, attributes thel upsoi to the following: Economic disorders caused b the shut down of sugar cane mills and , general stagnation of industry. Financial, caused by excessive sugar crop speculation, resulting in the insolvency in-solvency of numerous bank and the establishment of a moratorium by the governuii.nl Political, emanating from lallure to' determine who has boon elected president, presi-dent, charges nt elceti ;i irauda clouding cloud-ing the result. t uba appears to bo Buffering from a -ugar spree and the morning alter ;'lth sugar selling at 25 cents In the, I'nitid States last year I'ubn was roll ling in wealth and sugar millionaires I I I WOTS made in a da Then the pri e of sugar slumped, the cane mills i closed and Cuba went broke. It is a contradiction to say that pros- perlty brings depression, but in Cuba, this has been true. The people en-1 Joyed uuparnlleled prosperity during whloh they -.pent their money freely. mdulgwd themselves to the limit and then suddenly came tacc to face with I a drop m prices. The) had found at tho end of tho rainbow their pot of I Igold. had squandered the riches, ex jpecting to find another, and then an-! j other, pot oi sold, and finally came out ot their dreams with nothing but la sad awakening to tho fact that dissi ' Ipation leads to distress. While we in America han not gone j the wild pace of the Cubans, our 'whirl of excitement has been suffi i Icicntly great to leave us in a nervous pond it ion Wc hac had our spree dur ling which all classed have spent with , the recklessness of drunken sullorr land we must pay for the sobering up pro SSS, which is now on nn i |