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 . ruction must beperformed in the interests of the people of Cuba, only, andthat the profit to the United States must come in the in-creased prosperity of the people of Cuba, and in the benefitsaccruing from a peaceful, instead of a constantly warringneighbour. According to Mr. Chamberlain, this is thefundamental principle underlying Englands operation in hertropical colonies. In comparing British administra
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 . ruction must beperformed in the interests of the people of Cuba, only, andthat the profit to the United States must come in the in-creased prosperity of the people of Cuba, and in the benefitsaccruing from a peaceful, instead of a constantly warringneighbour. According to Mr. Chamberlain, this is thefundamental principle underlying Englands operation in hertropical colonies. In comparing British administration in Jamaica with anypossible operations of the United States Government inCuba, the fact of the great difference in the populationmust be considered. In Jamaica not over 15,000 of the700,000 population are white. When England began totreat this island as a trust, and not as a possession,—sayabout 1834,—the population was made up of 311,070 slaves,15,000 whites, 40,000 coloured, or brown people, as they arecalled in Jamaica, and 5000 free blacks. In Cuba a major-ity of the population are white—the census of 1887 showing1,102,889 white and 528,798 coloured—in all provinces;. The English in Jamaica 51 Matanzas, with forty-five per cent, coloured, and Santiago,with forty-two per cent, coloured, representing the strongestcoloured sections of the Island. That half a century of Brit-ish rule in Jamaica has improved the population of Jamaica,nearly all of whom were slaves when the work was begun, isself-evident, though it is equally true that similar govern-ment in Cuba would have resulted, by reason of the prepon-derance of white population, in more far-reaching is, Cuba, under such a government as England hasgiven Jamaica, would, in all reasonable probability, havenumbered at this time a population of from four to five mil-lions, with a greatly increased commerce, diversified in-dustries, magnificent main and parochial roads, an adequaterailway system, many p
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