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 . eing these ship-ownersoccupy the anomalous position of being men not without acountry, but without an established form of government towhich they can take allegiance. How long this anomalouscondition shall continue rests to a very great extent withthe Cubans themselves. Their shipping, too, is virtuallywithout a flag. Yet in the designation of a distinctivesignal—the blue flag with a white union—the author
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 . eing these ship-ownersoccupy the anomalous position of being men not without acountry, but without an established form of government towhich they can take allegiance. How long this anomalouscondition shall continue rests to a very great extent withthe Cubans themselves. Their shipping, too, is virtuallywithout a flag. Yet in the designation of a distinctivesignal—the blue flag with a white union—the authorities ofthe United States have more closely consulted historic andheraldic proprieties than did the Cubans themselves. Thecolours chosen are those adopted in different forms byArgentina, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua,the former Spanish colonies on the Atlantic which won andhave maintained independence. The cynical student ofhistory cannot point to a lone star, and croak that we haveimposed it on Cuba as a sign that the history of Texas is tobe repeated. The same just policy, the same desire to consult the prob-able wishes of a future independent government, the same. Navigation 365 willingness to forego selfish advantages, have characterisedthe formulation of navigation regulations for the foreigntrade as for the coasting trade of Cuba. Under the warpower, as construed by the courts, the President could,without doubt, have so framed regulations as to divertforcibly to the United States, and to vessels of the UnitedStates, a large share of the commerce of the Island whichnow seeks other channels. Direct taxation is not the onlyform in which commerce can be made to pay its contribu-tions toward the expenses of war. Disregarding narrowadvice to create opportunities for American profit out of theCuban situation, the President and his advisers have soframed the navigation regulations for foreign trade that notonly is there no discrimination among nations in trade w
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