The question is. How can this be done most effectually without injury to our own industries? To take Cuba into our commercial union by reciprocity would be to free her from the burdens and restraints of a protective system which has in this country raised the price of all supplies and products above the international level. and has also so restricted the labor market by Chinese exclusion and immigration laws as to maintain a higher level for labor than the international level. Thus Cuba would have the advantage of a production on the low international level of labor and supplies. but would sell on the higher level of our protected markets. which. in sugar. would secure to her double the price she would otherwise get. The effect would be to rapidly stimulate the production of sugar in Cuba by every device known in the way of cheap labor.
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