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Show THE RESIDENT AND CUBA. President tlooacvelt has sent to fon-giess fon-giess a l clnl memiige urging the adoption o rei Ipi oral trnde leintlono wl'ti Cuhaj Ho opimses the rebate pioponitlonj and ills. Inlms the Idea of wanting niyr one Industry lo bear tho burden of Jhln n ( liroe lt. Yet It is hard to ieehnw the burden In the ease nt the scajlag down of duties, ns he proposes, would fall to fill upon the lugar producers of this ceuintr). Ho suggests thcit the Penr of the trust tnk-littr tnk-littr the henent uf lueh reductions could be ariertcd but does not point out hnu Ills instancing nf the ciisom nf Hawaii and of l'orlo Itlco Is not In point, for two reason, llrst, tho stigni irnduillon of llawiill and of l'orto Itleo Is comparatively unimportant, whereas Cuba could within ten years completely suppl) and dominate the sug-ir markit of this country, stopping altogether the home production, unless a common trust might control both Cuban and American sugar In Its own Interest; -ind second, Hawaii and l'orto Itiro aro Uritel States territory, nnd o nio nut nibjeet to ticuty stipulations stipula-tions as to duties, being entitled to the benefit f our homo markets free We tniito-n that if the sugar trust hsi control of ihe beet suoir pinductlon of the cotinirj ns well as of tho ro-lliilng ro-lliilng of alt Imported crude sugar, there li no psrtlnilar nse In lighting the matter way or tho other. Hut that Is not ear understanding of the matter Hn far as 1'toli Is conierned. our local men are In control nnd they innlnt.iln not nnl) Hint the sugar trust Is not In chiree but that full 'halt of the slock UcMinul nt home nnd that so fin ns tiny know, none nf that vv1il.li Is owned in the, i;a,t is owned b) the augiutrimi Doubles, theie nre many other iiurur fin lories to be built In this mountain region, th,y are neM-ed neM-ed to foster dlv i rslfled und palng atrleiiltiirc. Sot! it womust continue to insist tliirwliateve'rtho' Nation owes to Cubimust be paid by the Nation, Na-tion, mid not by our beet augur Interests, Inter-ests, inul that when reilpmclty is urged. It be i a llnc that will nnt break down tho Anwrlmn system of piotect-ing piotect-ing homo incuxtrits |