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THE ISLE OF PINES TREATY DISCUSSED.
#95, FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1925
The Times'. Washington correspondent,
an article published in that paper on March 17th, wrote:-
The treaty under which the United' States relinquishes nit' claim of title to the Isle of Pines in favour of the Re- public of Cube which was ratifed on March 13th by the Senate, was negotiat ed and signed at Washington on March 2nd, 1004, by Mr. John Hay, as Secres tary of State, and Señor Gonzalo de Quesada, as Cuban Minister.
It had been three times favourably re- ported by the Senate Foreign Relationa Committee on February lit, 1906, on December 7th. 1992. and on February 18th, 1921 had never ceased to have the approval of the State Department, which, under Mr. Hay and all his succes sors slown to Mr. Hughes, had steadily maintained that the Isle of Pines as historically and geographically a part of Cuba. It was further supported by the decision of the Enited States Sup reme Court in the case of Pearcy Stranahan, handed down in April, 1907, in which it was held that the lale of Pines as an integral part of Cubu, and to be regarded for tariff purposes as foreign territory. The Senate, for 21 years, cared for none of these things. A treaty going before that body. Mr. Hay once said, is like a bull going into the arean: no one enn say just how or when the final biow will fall, but one thing is certain it will never leave the arena alive. It has taken almost a generation to prove him, in this minor instance,.
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The Isle of Pines lies in the Caribbean See the south-western part Cuba, from which it is separated by 50 miles of shoal water. It has an area of 865 square miles, a census taken in 1919 showed a total population of 1.969, and the cultivation of early grape fruit and winter vegetables is the business-of-pras- Numerous tically all its inhabitants. development companies were formed in the United States, at the close of the Spanish-American War, and these bought title to most of the land in the Isle of Pines, and resold it in small tracts to investors. It is estimated to-day that 10.000 Americans hold nine-tenths of the area of the island, though only 700 live there on farms of five to ten acres only,
American property-owners were. natu- rally, the backbone of the opposition to the treaty, and at various times they bad proposed the purchase of the island by the United States, though it had never appeared probable that Caba would agree to sell. Their fear of an impair. ment of their intercats it all claim of national title should be definitely re nounced by the United States would have had a large justification it they had not lived in sufficient prosperity under Cuban jurisdiction since 1902, and if the present treaty did not expressly provide that they should "eufer no diminution of the rights and privileges which they have acquired prior to the dose of ex- change of ratifications of thit tresty." So far as their immediate status is co- erned, therefore, the ratification of the trenty does nothing to disturb conditions which have persisted for 23 years.
THE DEFINITE ARGUMENT. Some use has always been made of the argument that American sovereignty over. the Isle of Pines was, if not imperative. at least desirable as part of a general scheme of national defence. Here, again, the contention hardly stood the test of examination. The relations between thi United States and the Republic of Cuba are stated in the form of an amendoient to the Army Supply Bill of March 2nil. 1901-known as the Platt anemligent "
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which in effect soft-the-conditious upon which American military forces would be withdrawn from Caba. Among other things, the young Republje was required to sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coating or naval stations at reftain specified points. to be agreed upon with the President of the United States." in order to "enable the United States to maintain the inde pendence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well us for its own defence," There was never any doubt in
It seemed, to Cabn first, and after Cuba the minds of the American naval experts to Central and South America in general, as to the relative uselessness of the Isle of Pines, and on July 2nd, 1903, the Cav. to be a test of American good faith, and ernment of Cuba leased to the United of the sincerity of the oft-repeated pro- States certain areas of had and water is that the United States cherished no designs of territorial aggrandizement. in Guantanune and Behin Honda. What In recent years it has not stood alone. is more, Article II. of the treaty which The activities of the United States in has now been tardity renderis valid set Haiti, San Domingo, and Nicaragua, the forth that:-
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the grants of coaling stations in the with events and political developments Taland of Cuba: heretofore mide to the in Honduras-zed-cisewhere did not fail United States of America by the Reto cause certain alarm. These Latin- public of Cuka,
American anxieties may or may not have There was accordingly, every reason been justified, but while they existed they that the Seante should promptly honour, were a political fact of the first import- the engagement made-save one, the fact ance, and not the least significant of the that the mere failure to act constitutes movements since President Coolidge came a negative fore, and this power of ginto office has been the attempt to allay tion is jealously guarded by the Upper them,
Chamber of Congress. A treaty once The ratification of the Isle of Pines ratified becomes part of the law of the Treaty was not secured without the exer- land, it passes for administrative purtion of a good deal of pressure by the poses into the hands of the Executive, White House on Congress. It comes at n and it is henceforth beyond the rench of time when the United States in lifting: The legislative branch of the Coverageat, its hand from Haiti, San Domingo, and While it lies uncompleted on the table, Nicaragua, and when, in the form of or while it fills a pigeon-hole in the desk action or of speech, no opportunity is af the Chairman of the Foreign Relations being lost to encourage a greater cord. Committee, it is at least a point of poasiality in relations with Latin-Americans ible contact with the world of foreign generally. Whatever may be piously pro- affairs, a world into which for a quarter tested, this cordiality is to-day less real of a century past the Senate has endea than it might or should be.. voured to force its way. In the distant The last Pan-American Conference, at days of John Hay, treaty after treaty Santiago de Chile, was perhaps a feast was negotiated, only to fail acceptance of reason, but it was not the flow of when it reached Congress, and it was the soul that Washington desired. If it habit of that admirably but occasionally contributed to anything, it was, rather irasciblo Secretary of State to say that to the encouragement of the Latia- the Senate would bring down his grey American than the Pan-American spirit, hairs in sorrow to the grave. This per Now, when Chiba can point to the lale haps it did, but in the present instanon of Pines as an undisputed possession, and the failure to set the seal upon a contract when there is a perceptible softening of with Cuba has had a wider effect.
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