LIGOS SONDOCIS GROS 28 Another way out was being looked for. He(Wachado) began to talk about the establishment of a state bank to establish Cuba right to money issue, but then the question was raised on what would the money be issued. So the question. o? the state bank mas taken off the agenda. have also heard talk about a divorce law. could not understand that it is all about, in the midst of this terror and strat gle a sudden discussion about a divorce law. In Cube 1t is not so difficult to have a couple of wives, if you want to. so it appears that the covernment loold me for sources of income, Inowing that the American millionaires and others wat will come to look for divorce in Cuba, and that this is a very expensive thing in the United States, proposed the divorce lam as something that could offer a little Income to the government. It is ridiculous, but it is a fact. The United States was unfavorable to the proposition, and the thing was dropped.
This indicates that the government, feeling bankrupt is seizing on every pretext to cein some income. The foreign debts abount to 250 million. could prove that high rates of interest are being paid on public debt. One of the measures actually adopted for a solution of the crisis was the Emergency Law. have in one of my letters briefly described the character of this law. This Daergency Law was not worked out from the point of view of rosulating conditions in the country to peredt the development of one branch of industry. a rxent it was not considered from that point of view at all. It was drawn up under the impact of panic. The prices for registerine birth, formerly 50 cents was now 00; taxes were placed upon imports, and charges were raised on the issuance of foreign papers. The tax upon Imports bad to be changed or abolished upon the protest of the various merchant Mechado was looking for a short cut to Increase the income of the treasury and was telding everything he could think of Naturally, all the merchants, theatre owere, etc. Imediately raised the priceoot their commodities, shifting the burden of the tax upon the consumers. It is impossible to say whether the mergency law has actually improved the financial co adition of the government. It is clear that the emergency law was creating a shrinkage of consumption. Fith the conclusion of the sugar harvest, the buying was reduced considerably, and it is very unlticely that the emergency law would improve the 11 nancial situation of the government. cannot awe11 very long on the political importance of Cuba for the United States. only ment to remark thet Machado represents the consolidation of bourgeois power in Cuba. want to emphasize that the idea of cooperation of the liberals, conservatives and the other parties was not on the basis of of agreement on dig economic and political questions. As was informed, Menocal and the other politicians were kept from being in opposition because Machado peia Menocal 10, 000 out of the income of the lottery. Perhaps am mistaken, but this seems to me to be the reason for the so called harmony that prevailed among the bourgeois Parties in the beginning. The Lottery in the Latin American countries is also great source of sqeezing large sums of money from the masses who deny themselves food to participat in the lottery in the hopes of getting rich quick, Machado is getting tone of thousands of dollars out of this lottery, which enabled him to buy over these varias politicians. It would be wrong to say that the opposition began Just because the Lottery decreased and therefore bribery decreased. That would not be a correct analysis of the opposition. will not repeat here the program of the nationalists. w111 mention some of the points: Restoration of the Constitution of 1902, the enlarging of the suffrage laws, against the bic expenses on public worlos, like the palace, public roads, etc. and the main point, that Machado must o. state that in order that we can see how far the stionalists have gone back on their om derands. They are already going against their main programmetic demands. believe we must find an oprortunity to discuss in detail what were the real forces of the nationaliste. Is it Документы Советской элии BS http: soydoc. rusarchives. ru