Show L THE PRESIDENT AND CUBA I i I President Tlooscvolt has sent to Congress Con-gress a special monsae urging the J j adoption of rcciiirociil trade relations 1 with Cuba He opposes > the rebate proposition and disclaims the idea of Y wanting any one industry to bear the burden of thlu reciprocity Yet It is I I hard to see how the burden in tho case t or the scaling down of duties as he j proposes would fall lo t fall upon the sugar producers of his country HoI Ho-I suggests that the fear of the trust taking tak-ing the benefit of FUCII reductions could bo arrested but does sot point out I how His insiancln of the cases of Hawaii and of Porto llico Is not in point for two reasons first the sugar production of Hawaii and of Porto Rico in comparatively unimportant herons Cuba could within ten years iompletcly supply und dominnto tho sugar market of this country stopping Altogether the homo production ncsn n common trust might control both Cuban nnd Aiueifcan sugar In Its own InlrcJt and second Hawaii and Porto llico ore United Slates territory und so fire not subject lo treaty ulipula tlonn as to dntlcM being entitled to thu benefit of our home mttrkols free t VTo confess lluu Ii the rupjir Inisl iis control of the beet sugru production a of the country 11f well us oC iho refining i re-fining of all Illti0l ted criulo Ktigar there Is no particular use in lighting the matter one way or l the other Hut I r that In not our understanding of tin matter So far us Utah lu concerned 1 011 local men ate In uontiol nnd they iiuuli taut not only that the uugar tnmt IB not In ullnrge but that full huh ot the sloelt lu owned at home and thnt so far as they know niitu of that which Jf I ovncd In I he Uuct lu owned by the BUJJHI trust Hcsldo l J thero nit many other sugui Caclurlcs lo lin built In this mountain region thcy un ne del tt d-el to fouler a diversified and paying r agriculture So tlau We must continue > to Insist that whatever the Nation ovts to Cuba must bo paid by the 1 Nation Na-tion and not by our beet sugar Inter csts and that when reciprocity Is urged J It be on lines that will not breakdown break-down the American tyslem of protect lag home induiUrlcs |