Whatever the future may have in store for this wonderful and unfortunate Island, the author can truly say that the task allotted him by the President has, so far as Cuba and the Cuban people are concerned, been conscientiously and faithfully performed. The measures inaugurated for the government of the Island, which were based upon the author’s reports, have been scrupulously framed in the interest of Cuba and not with a view of benefiting by discrimination the United States. The machinery of the new government has been set running in Cuba, and though some time may elapse before it is working as smoothly as we would wish, it has been inaugurated with the sole desire of doing the best possible by Cuba. Of the rest, the reader must judge for himself. The subject at least is interesting, even though its treatment here may be a little statistical. The account of the visit to General Gomez was deemed sufficiently interesting and important to give it in full, exactly as the report was made through the Honourable Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman J. Gage, to the President.
Recognition is due to Mr. W. J. Lampton for his assistance to the writer.
R. P. P.
36 East Sixty-fifth Street,
New York.
February 9, 1899.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | —Cuba—Political and Economic | [1] |
| [II.] | —Conditions which Confront us | [14] |
| [III.] | —Political Future of Cuba | [32] |
| [IV.] | —The English in Jamaica | [47] |
| [V.] | —The Americans in Santiago | [62] |
| [VI.] | —Outlook in Cuba for Labour | [73] |
| [VII.] | —The Population of Cuba | [90] |
| [VIII.] | —Sanitary Work in Cuba | [108] |
| [IX.] | —Cities and Towns of Cuba | [122] |
| [X.] | —Havana | [139] |
| [XI.] | —Colonel Waring’s Sanitary Report | [154] |
| [XII.] | —Municipal Problems in Havana | [172] |
| [XIII.] | —Banks and Currency | [190] |
| [XIV.] | —Payment of Insurgent Soldiers | [204] |
| [XV.] | —The Revenue of Cuba—Customs Tariffs | [211] |
| [XVI.] | —The Amended Tariff—Official | [221] |
| [XVII.] | —The Revenue of Cuba—Internal Taxes | [248] |
| [XVIII.] | —How the Revenue was Spent | [256] |
| [XIX.] | —Commerce | [267] |
| [XX.] | —Sugar | [281] |
| [XXI.] | —Tobacco | [302] |
| [XXII.] | —Mines and Mining | [318] |
| [XXIII.] | —Agriculture and Stock | [329] |
| [XXIV.] | —Timber and Fruit | [338] |
| [XXV.] | —Transportation | [351] |
| [XXVI.] | —Navigation | [362] |
| [XXVII.] | —Education and Religion | [376] |
| [XXVIII.] | —A Meeting with General Gomez | [390] |
| [XXIX.] | —Conclusion—The Outlook for the Future | [408] |
| [ Index] |
