The History of Colonization From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
The History of Colonization From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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the magazines of that period, especially the Atlantic Monthly; also "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and "American Annual Cyclopedia," article, "Cuba." « Leroy-Beaulieui 263.
Digitized by Google 288 HISTORY OF COLONIZATION chap.
administration, and an extravagant and burdensome form of colonial government, due to the stubbornness of the parent state, could have but one consequence. Taxation was the scourge of Cuba. According to ex-Minister Ruiz Gromez,^ of Spain, the annual rate, a few years ago, in ...the French West Indies was $4 to $5 per capita; in Canada, $6; in Cuba, $22.
Paper money, quoted at a discount of sixty per cent, was com- monly in circulation, but the taxes were payable in silver at its face value. Excessive imposts, a depreciated currency, differential tariffs favoring Spain, which nevertheless could not increase its trade, the attempted and, in a great measure, consummated annihilation of American business, the practical prohibition to Cubans to buy where they found abundant sup- plies, duties of forty per cent on American meats, ninety-six per cent on American flour, and the real starvation of 1,600,000 people to the profit of a few Spanish provision houses, which carried wheat from America to Spain to reship it to Cuba,* were grievances so well known as not to require elaboration, not the less absurd in their character than serious in their results.
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the magazines of that period, especially the Atlantic Monthly; also "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and "American Annual Cyclopedia," article, "Cuba." « Leroy-Beaulieui 263.
Digitized by Google 288 HISTORY OF COLONIZATION chap.
administration, and an extravagant and burdensome form of colonial government, due to the stubbornness of the parent state, could have but one consequence. Taxation was the scourge of Cuba. According to ex-Minister Ruiz Gromez,^ of Spain, the annual rate, a few years ago, in ...the French West Indies was $4 to $5 per capita; in Canada, $6; in Cuba, $22.
Paper money, quoted at a discount of sixty per cent, was com- monly in circulation, but the taxes were payable in silver at its face value. Excessive imposts, a depreciated currency, differential tariffs favoring Spain, which nevertheless could not increase its trade, the attempted and, in a great measure, consummated annihilation of American business, the practical prohibition to Cubans to buy where they found abundant sup- plies, duties of forty per cent on American meats, ninety-six per cent on American flour, and the real starvation of 1,600,000 people to the profit of a few Spanish provision houses, which carried wheat from America to Spain to reship it to Cuba,* were grievances so well known as not to require elaboration, not the less absurd in their character than serious in their results.
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