Show COaiSEENTS BY THE PRESS New York Mail and Express Senator Chandler believes that congress should appropriate 3000000 or SlOOuOGOO for the relief of tho starving Cubans first and recognize their independence afterward But why not recognize their independsnce fIrst and thus help them to relieve them sehws Houston Tex Post The absence of an Income tax In the United States or of taxation oC stocks and bonds tl is l keeping I millions of dollars out of other forms of investment and reducing by to much the business and Industrial development of the country San Francisco Chronicle This is a bad time for river and harbor appropriations and San Pedro may have to Unfit for very Inch of the ground supposed to have been already won I speaks well for the southern spirit that nothwlthstand ing the bad outlook an energetic struggle llt be made utno both s ete and house Should the plan fail San Pedro will be certain to figure conspicuously In the debates de-bates of the succeeding congress St Louis GIobckDomocrat The coast lint of the United States according to the coast survey embraces 5715 miles includIng Ing 2319 miles on the Atlantic 1556 on the Gulf of Mexico and 1S10 on the Pacific Sir Charles Duke Is certainly right in say nc that Spain will not succeed In blockading block-ading us Kansas City Star Clara Barton of the el J tg Red Cross society is so discouraged I by outsd Interference with her work in Cuba that she Is tempted to abandon it Her experience In Armenia was nothing as compared with the difficulties with which she is now grappling This bra woman has discovered that the unspeakable unspeak-able Turk is really a humanitarian a compared com-pared with the unutterable Spaniard Pittsburg Post The currency plan agreed on by the Republican subcommittee subcom-mittee of the banking and currency committee com-mittee was submitted to the full commit com-mit e yesterda Tho most important feature of the plan is the method of dealing with the greenbacks avoiding direst di-rest retirement by the substitution of a legal tender note which ths national natonal banks are required to assume and for the redemption of which they are required to find the gold There Is no ned to waste time on this plan as It Is not I proposed with any Idea it will become a law There wIll be Ito currency legislation legisla-tion by this congress |