| Show American People Facing an Issue Which Defines Their Obligations Obliga-tions to Cuban Republic nettled the Cuban rebellion without intervention in-tervention and without shedding a drop of American blood by securing a reciprocity law for Cubas wong had their rise more In economic causes than In social and political ones WHAT CUBANS ASKED Therefore It was natural that the first thing the Cubans asked from their American benefactors j was a restoration re-storation of the trade relations enjoyed en-joyed before the rebellion It was natural nat-ural that upon the mere promise of McKlnley lo use his Influence to secure a reciprocity treaty the Cubans should grant every request made by the United Slates for upon HIP opening of the American market to Cuban sugar depends the economic future of the land l and upon that depends the maintenance of the public peace there I It Is Important that Americana slujld know that history Is about to rCjjToat itself in Cuba for the Cubans had faith In McKlnlcys power to bring about tho reciprocity treaty which they desired Industry revived on the strength of that promise and the Cuban planters put In a big sugar crop Labor again found employment Again there wan contentment content-ment In the island But the treaty failed to pas The duty against Cuban sugar In American ports Is prohibitive Sugar sold on the wharves of Havana for 1CS and and the admitted coat of production In 2 SMALL CROP GOING IN This year a small crop Is going In Labor hardly finds employment Capital Capi-tal In ohy No other Industries are moving mov-ing A slow paralysis Is I binding the island The next ntep will bo rebellion and some American General whowJh 11 intervene In the rebellion to protect American property In the Inland will be knoYu I in Cuban history as the American Ameri-can Wcyler This will be a pleasant ending of all the finn promises wo AmerIcana made to humanity when we drove Spain from the Island to protect Poor Cuba Yet Cuban revolution American Intervention American conquest con-quest and forcible American annex Uon are the Inevitable conscqunncen of the present policy of the United States Every vote which prevents the eslab Hshmcnt of Cuban reciprocity In the next Congress Is I certain to cost the I lives of a hundred American soldiers of the conquest DONT ENLIST FOR HEALTH Styi soldiers dont enlist for their health and there are causes that are bought cheaply with American blood No one should begrudge a few thousand thou-sand lives if they bring value recolvrd The question which the people of this country must decide Is whether or not America Is getting enough out of her stand against Cuban reciprocity lo make It pay Of course the opponents to the reciprocity plan have their shIn of the case Put in a few words it I Is Ihl5 That there Is i rising In the United Stales a new Industrythc beetsugar Industry and that to compel this now Industry to compete with Cuban sugar just now will kill the beetsugar Industry Indus-try and sacrifice much American capl tal The champions of beetsugar claim that the question is purely a commercial commer-cial one and not In any sense a moral Issue I From their viewpoint they are correct ONE THING TO CONSIDER And It Is I Just us well to consider the matter for a moment from a commercial commer-cial I standpoint forgetting the moral forces at stake It Is agreed that tho total sugar consumption of the United States Is 2400000 tons annually Of I this amount about onetenth Is beet I sugar and about onetenth cane sugar produced In the United States proper I In other words of the total consumption consump-tion of sugar In the United Slates proper prop-er onefifth of It Is homegrown Between Be-tween onesixth and onefaeventh comes from Hawaii and Porto Rico From Europe or countries llko Java and the East Indies controlled by Europe one third of the sugar comes that Is consumed con-sumed in the United States And the other third of the sugar we Americans use comes from Cuba The price of I tho homegrown sugar will not be fixed of course by what It I costa to produce I sugar In the United States but ralher the price will be based on the highest cost of production tariff duties and transportation from the farthest foreign for-eign country for there cannot be two prices for the same article on the same market and American planters would of course increase their prices to meet the prices made by foreign rivals In business WOULD CONTROL ALL If the gap between consumption and the supply which foreign sugar fills were a very small one still the price of tho sugar it took to fill that small gap would control all the sugar sold In the country Cuba today produces onethird of the sugar used in the United States It Cuban sugar wcro admitted duty free which by the way the reciprocity treaty does not provide It could not control or cheapen the price of sugar in the United States for there would still be coming into this country TTbm European colonies and countries a great flood of sugar paying pay-Ing a 108 per cent tariff which will always al-ways maintain the high price io that homesugar growers will not have to compete with even free sugar from Cuba AS TO BEET SUGAR But even 1C such a reduction In tho tariff does reduce the price of sugar as tho beetsugar people wrongfully claim would It not be better to sao each American householder a few dollars dol-lars a year on his sugar bill than to continue protecting an Industry like beet sugar which according to tho prospectus Issued I l by the Oxnard beet sugar people Is making nearly one hundred hun-dred per cent of profit on Its investment Invest-ment The more one makes this Cuban Cu-ban reciprocity question purely a commercial com-mercial one the worse the beetsugar people came out of It The real interests inter-ests of all the people demand cheaper sugar more urgently than the beet sugar interests demand the national nourishment of that Industry Commercialism Com-mercialism Is very thin Ice for the beet sugar people to aland on And then of course there Is the other aide the American sldco tho reciprocity proposition which has not been weighed at all That feature oC the case Is found In the fact that In I return for this favor to Cuban products pro-ducts Cuba will reciprocate with similar simi-lar favors to American products When reciprocity Is established the United Stairs will supply the Cubans with flour and much of theIr foodstuffs America will bo tho natural mar Jet placo for Cuba and tho island will merge itself into tho American Union naturally People who wear American made clothes eat American Ameri-can food uso American machines and read American newspapers and American magazines and books are going to bo Americans in fact before be-fore they know what haG happened to them EFFECT OF CONCESSION The effect of this concession to American Amer-ican manufacturers not merely of ono Industry hut of all industries would be felt at once Cuba now has a population popu-lation of a i million nnd a half people General Leonard Wood Is authority for the statement that Cuba will easily i sustain a population of fifteen millions If lie Unlled Staten pays her obligation obliga-tion to Cuba nnd allows Cuban industries indus-tries lo thrive as thoy thrived underlie under-lie McKinley law of 1890 the population popula-tion of Cuba will rise toward the fit teen million point rapidly The In prpapo must be largely American Tho mortuary statistics collected under the American military occupation of Cuba show that fuban plUoa ore as healthful health-ful when they arc properly cleaned as ninetenths of the American cities The American populallon will make an American Cuba The political nlllancft may come coon or It may come late but If the commercial alliance is I mart under the proposed reciprocity measure the political alliance Is Inevitable Cuba will come into the Union as American as Texas or California did In a few years Latin traditions will pass away as they hnvc passed in tho southwest and Cuba will be one of tho great American common woaltns QUESTIONS AT ISSUE Thin must happen sooner or later In spite of beet sugar Today the question ques-tion Is not when Cuba shall come Into the Union but how Whether by assimilation as-similation or by conquest whether pulled In by the hair 0 her head kick hag and squalling In revolution or whether she shall come rejoicing bringing In lie has The Senatorial Sena-torial insurgents pcrfcr to let Cuban labor stand Idle llll the insurrection oCcurs and then send an army down to protect American capital from the df h predations of Cuban evolutionists i and finally bring Cuba Into HIP Union that witty The RooseWJt plan is a different one II Is to keep faith with Tuba glvr her what we promised her and what considering her concessions to America she has a right to expect from America to make such olroniyconimcrcliil aliiel of the Cubans that hey will seek political po-litical protection to make Cuba a field j for young Americans seeking new Industrial In-dustrial and commercial opportunities to Americanize Cuba by kindness rather rath-er than by conquest t KINDNESS PAYS Kindness always pays from 3 purely business standpoint whether It be kindness of men or of nations The Good Samaritan was Infinitely richer for his kindness to the man on the Jericho road than was he who received the benefits I Is a law a fixed and as Inexorable as the law of gravitation that kindness bears Interest and bea1 returns re-turns all of the principal America cant lose n dollar by being kind to Cuba The great benefits that came to America after the Spanish war are in evidence to prove that from t purely Ewlllsh standpoint n purely commercial commer-cial standpoint It pays 30 to 10 percent per-cent per annum to be brave and generous gen-erous and kind We have put tho man we found bleeding on the Jericho road on our own beast we have taken him to an Inn We have even departed giving the host two pence to take care of our unfortunate neighbor And now there are two parties In tho land debating de-bating as to our further duty In tho matter WHAT THE CROWD SAYS One party tho party led by the President Pres-ident says In effect Let us fee If that poor neighbor of ours Is getting along all right down there at the Inn out of our bounty maybe we may help him In his convalescence we wont feel the loss and the poor fellow needs a little help right now pretty badly The other crowd says In effect Isnt it getting about time to quit throwing good 001 money after bo i tel that soreeyed spavined human hamburger down there at the tavern we want him to get up arid run us f footrace carrying JOS per cent tariff handicap and if he cant do that why he can go to tho devil and shut the door after him till we get time to come down there to foreclose the mortgage on his mangey hide for that two pence hotel bU wo spent on him Naturally one party in America views this situation as one involving duty and a high moral obligation And also It Is entirely consistent for tho opposing party to regard Americas re lations to Cuba ns a commercial propo ottlon The priest and tho Levite had some such Ideas 2000 years ago To Rolacquor Brass Bods I your brass bed Is tarnished you can relacquor It yourself at small cost Buy 10 cents worth of gum shclloa dissolved In alcohol and apply it with a paint brush Other household artlclclcs made of brass may be treated in the same way |
