No. It will be the wealth and prosperity of a small oligarchy therethe planters of Cuba. reenforced from America. employing half slave labor throughout the island. Cuba. without restrictive immigration laws. will be the refuge of the refuse labor of the world. and the people will be freemen in name onlyserfs. attached to the soil without interest in it. laboring for the great combinations and syndicates which will control the land. Will Cuba then be better fitted for incorporation into our Union than now? I hear it often said that Cuba would be desirable if for a half hour she could be sunk into the sea and then emerge after all her inhabitants had perished.
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