| Show WHAT THE OTHERS THINK THEY KNOW CUBAN UBAN RECIPROCITY d From the Chicago Tribune The moral mOra sense of this country is In favor of special reciprocal trade arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments with Cuba involving CUba Involving reduced duties duties duties du du- du- du ties on sugar and tobacco tobacco from the island as as an act of consideration and Justice for f r the Cuban people The unprejudiced business sense of the country is ia also in favor of the same action and has haC reason to be on purely bJ business grounds LORD DUFFERIN ERIN From the Minneapolis Times England has suffered a severe and notable notable notable no no- table loss in the death of the Marquis of and Ava Whether as ls Govern Gover Gover- n nor General of Canada and later of India India in- in In In- dia or as Emb of England to Russia Italy y or France Lord Dufferin proved himself all able to cope with difficult problems executive or diplomatic and earned arned the high respect of people of whom he was the titular head or of governments to whom he was accredited as the representative of his own great country When hl hi life comes to be written as written it will be his his bi biographer biographer biographer bi- bi will find that his memory Is Ismore Ismore ismore more dearly cherished In Canada than that of of any Governor General the mother country ever sent to the Uie i. Dominio-i. THE BRIDGE OF COMMERCE From From th the e City of Mexico Herald Von Humboldt's prediction that Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- t ico n would become the Dna bridge UL of or the fhe Il t ico n would become the Dna bridge UL of or the fhe Il worlds world's commerce Is apparently held to tobe tobe tobe be well bas based d by the th famous famoUs British contractor contractOr contractor con con- tractor who has wo won the approval and support of President Diaz Diz DI With good harbors made at the tho Gulf and Pacific termini of the Tehuantepec railway I 1 Mexico Mex xico x- x ico will come td be regarded as a veritable veritable vent vent- able bridge of international commerce as fis asit s sit it ft was W ve 1 in a a. small sma l. l way y during the u e sll six sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when th the m mule le trains trains carrying Oriental mer merchandise merchandise men mer chandise brought by the royal galleon to Acapulco transferred the wares of Asia to Veracruz for shipment to Spain taking b back c European m merchandise for the he P Phil Philippines ll- ll and China hog 1898 From the New York Tork Tribune 7 We did think the year 1898 1805 would be re remembered re- re largely largely for our our oui war Spain Instead it now ow bids fair or fair or foul foul to to go ringing down the ages a as the year which gave rise to the great problem Who was Ameri Americas America's as a's friend This problem seems likely to rank rau Ir in hi persistence with that concerning the identity of him who smote the late lamented William and with the Bacone cryptogram In Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- ke- ke speare not of ol co course comparing ing it with these h 8 in ln Importance But Bu It i imay it may may be sal said sala f t to resemble them In irk being a matter upon which there is little hope of or a i g and especially circumstance circumstance circum circum- the with the latter of or them in ID stance tance that persistent persistent disagreement with and of ot the consensus of sane opinion actual knowledge is la maintained by b a limIted limited lim lim- urn urn- but ever audible few to whom for various arious reasons the futile utile wish is father to the bumptious declaration |
