Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . In 1894 134,210,000 In 1895 158,662,000 In 1896 185,914,000 In 1897 123,417,000 On the other hand, the exportation of leaf tobacco hasincreased fifty per cent.; from 177,000 bales exported in1889 by the port of Havana, the exports in 1895 had in-creased to approximately 250,000 bales. It is easy, then, tounderstand the actual condition of the tobacco industryand its dependencies, and that of the numerous f
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . In 1894 134,210,000 In 1895 158,662,000 In 1896 185,914,000 In 1897 123,417,000 On the other hand, the exportation of leaf tobacco hasincreased fifty per cent.; from 177,000 bales exported in1889 by the port of Havana, the exports in 1895 had in-creased to approximately 250,000 bales. It is easy, then, tounderstand the actual condition of the tobacco industryand its dependencies, and that of the numerous familieswho live by the work that this gives them; their futurecannot be promising, unless laws are immediately enforcedto protect them and raise them from the abject state inwhich they find themselves. Cause of decline. Besides the high customs tariffs onimported cigars abroad, among which we may mentionthose of the Argentine Republic, as well as the internaltaxes of those countries where tobacco is a source of govern-ment revenue, one of the main reasons of the decline of theCuban industry originated in the McKinley bill, whichcompelled many manufacturers to move their factories to. Tobacco 315 the United States, owing to the want of protection on theraw material, thereby causing a considerable decrease in theproduction of the Island, and increasing in the same pro-portion that of the United States, in which country themanufacture has reached the enormous sum of 5,000,000,000cigars per annum. EXPORTATION OF TOBACCO TO THE UNITED STATES In 1889 101,698,560 cigars $3,970,034 In 1890 95,105,760 4,113,730 In 1891 52,015,600 2,742,285 In 1892 54,472,250 2,859,941 In 1893 46,033,660 ?* 2,424,425 In 1894 40,048,330 2,131,981 In 1895 39,579,400 2,050,367 In 1896 40,601,750 2,091,856 In 1897 34,017,583 1,868,610 Mode of protection. To protect and promote the pros-perity of this industry it is necessary: 1st. To maintain thesuppression of export duty on cigars ordered by the localGovern
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