Show 1 MM MM M M MM- MM MM i THE RELIEF OF CUBA t. t 4 t t 4 I 4 4 t 4 4 MM I I MM H 4 M I It 4 I General Wood rood is in Washington So by this time is Estrada Palma So also are the Adminis Administration and the Congress At the moment the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal object of the aggregation is to discuss or quarrel quarrel quarrel rel over the CubAn reciprocity matter as the case may be Wood rood and Estrada are prepared t to demonstrate dem that twenty per cent of the late Mr 1111 D Dingley Ding Ding- ng ley icy will not allow the Cubans to live that forty per cent is necessary to their health and that thir- thir ty three per pep cent would barely keep their noses out of water Beyond any reasonable question the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House holds the tile same view Ariew and the President is isha ha having ving to heart-to-heart talks with the bitterest JP i- i of Cuban reciprocity and they ought fo to produce results Heart to heart talks with American American American Amer Amer- ican Presidents almost always end in Congressional conviction that where there is no there is no pie On that account we feel some confidence that antagonism to the administration policy as regards Cuban sugar and tobacco presently will decline many degrees in fierceness and that in the end something more liberal than twenty per cent will be booked for the benefit of the island There are several arguments jn n favor of such a line of action One is that prominent beet sugar men like dike Mr lr Cutler of Utah admit that a reduction of ty live per cent on n Cuban sugar would not injure injuriously affect the American beet interest Another is that we are importing two million tons of sugar I annually and it might as well come from Cuba as I elsewhere Still another is that thiat if we were to admit admit admit ad ad- adI I mit the whole Cuban crop free of duty we westill still should be compelled to import a million tons to tomake tomake make mal up the difference between the joint American and Cuban production and American consumption It must be said for the reciprocity anti men in Congress Congress Con Con- gress that so far they have stood out like wooden fence posts for the inviolability of the tariff as handed down from the he inspired experts to o the prophet Din Dingley le but Administration influence can cando cando cando do much and members do not want it unfriendly to them in an election year rear |