. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . another contribution called industrialduty, and still another for loading or shipping,which is equivalent to an export duty. Cuba Ruined for tlie Sake of Spain. Still, if Spain was a flourishing industrialcountry and produced the principal articles re-quired by Cuba for the consumption of its people,or for developing and fostering its industries, theevil, though always great, would be a lesser everybody knows the backwardness of theSpanish industries, and the inability of Spain tosupply
. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . another contribution called industrialduty, and still another for loading or shipping,which is equivalent to an export duty. Cuba Ruined for tlie Sake of Spain. Still, if Spain was a flourishing industrialcountry and produced the principal articles re-quired by Cuba for the consumption of its people,or for developing and fostering its industries, theevil, though always great, would be a lesser everybody knows the backwardness of theSpanish industries, and the inability of Spain tosupply Cuba with the products she requires forher consumption and industries. The Cubanshave to consume or use foreign goods. TheSpanish merchants have found, moreover, a newsource of fraud in the application of these anti-quated and iniquitous laws ; it consists in nation-alizing foreign products for importation intoCuba. As the mainspring of this senseless com-mercial policy is to support the monopoly ofSpanish commerce, when Spain has been com-pelled to deviate from it to a certain extent by an as. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 18$ international treaty, it has done so reluctantly andin the anxious expectation of an opportunity tonullify its own promises. This explains the acci-dental history of the Reciprocity Treaty with theUnited States, which was received with joy byCuba, obstructed by the Spanish administrationand prematurely abolished by the Spanish Govern-ment as soon as it saw an opportunity. The injury done to Cuba, and the evil effectsproduced by this commercial legislation are be-yond calculation ; its effects have been materiallosses, which have engendered profound discon-tent. The Circulo de Hacendados y Agricul-tores, the wealthiest corporation of the island,in 1894 passed judgment on these commerciallaws in the following severe terms : Tt would be impossible to explain, shouldthe attempt be made, what is the signification ofthe present commercial laws, as regards any eco-nomica
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