Arizona republican., 1897-11-12
Nothing Significant in His Going Back to His Post
NO DANGER OF SPANISH WAR
Wild Stories Built Upon Cab
 inet Conferences
What the Bureau of Statistics Re- port Upon Exports and Imports for the Last Year Ending Sep tember 30 Will Show.

maItsntal upCn which to build W. scare Gan. IIe planned to go Cuba immediately after the election fully six weeks ago and he has Is several talks with President McKinle inn ili1e intervening time about what he is to do when he gets there. Gen. Lees errand on this trip will be of great importance, but nlot warlike- What this government wants to 1n just now is whether Cuba wi
 the autcnpmy offered in
 good faith by Spain, or whes1
 insurgents will reject that plad slnding the struggle on the island the autonomy is accepted, that e it; if it is mott accepted, someth must be done by this country to sd the war, lbscause Spain cannot stuJ it and Cuba will not. How this gov ermment will stop it has not been settled or discussed
 Just at present there is absolutely nothing in the diplomatic relations tn excite the slightest alarm. When ths annual message of the president tD congress becomes public the people who are expecting immediate trouble will be surprised at its mildness The president realizes the responsibility that rests upon him. There will be no word uttered by him that will in any way provoke trouble.
 It may be said t1iat Spain herself will commit some covert act which will provoke war. Spain will do 1othimg of the kind Of all the colln- tries in the world, Spain Is just now least anxious to engage i'm hostilities with the United States More than this, it can be stated-once more on high authority even an overt act would not precipitate trouble. If the United States enters upon a war it must be for some cause upon which the entire nation is agrelsd The president will not act with divided people behind him.
 The situation today in Washington is just this: The administrator Is having frequent confer ences about the best diplomatic policy to pursue to stop Cuba's war to the satisfaction nf all concerned These conferences lead to wild stories because the offie- fals will not tell what is going on and
 because advertising is not a good thing for diplomacy.
 OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Worth.ngton c. Ford, chief of tha | bureau of statistics of the t,Isasury | department, has received advance 1 proofs of his report on the impor.s 1 and exports of lhe United States for September and for the nine months
 ol the currant year ending September | 3Oth.
 | While the aggregate imports of ,he ] United States for September indicate
 a fa,lisg off of more than $S,O0O ,00l
 due probably to the large importa- l tloHs made earlier in the year in ad- 1 dcIpat1on of the passage of the Ding i ley b.ll, the total imports for the nine
 months covered by the rep-rt show
 an increase of nearly $67 ,OGo .0O0 over
 the corresponding period of last year. i The exports, both for the month of l September and for the nine months.
 are particularly satisfactory to the treasury officials The figures indi- i cate clearly that the export trade of { the UniIJsd States is increasing not
 only largely, but uniformly. During 1 September the exports of the country
 exceeded by almost $20,000,00 the
 exports during the same month of 1 last year; and for the nine months
 ending September 90 the experts ex- ceeded those of the corresponding
 period of 1896 by more than sS0000-
 900. The precise figures contained in
 MT. Ford's report covering the en- ! tire country are as follows:
 Imports September, 1896, S5O,S55,-
 s90; September, 1897. SAP, ,407 ,4O2; fer
 mine months ending September 30, 1896, 522,OSS, ,2SS; for mine months end ing September 30, 1897, s5SS, ,743, ,115.
 Experts September, 1896, sS5, ,1s1,-
 09S; September, 1897, $104, $40 .912; for
 the ninla months ending September
 90, 1896, $666, 6,G61, ,99O; for the nine
 months ending September 30, 1897, 1 STAG, ,23S, PAP.
 l Quite naturally the great bulk Of
 both the exports and imports of this country pass through the ports on the Atlantic seaboard. New York heads the list with the gTeatsst aggre-
 gate amount of both imports and ex-
 ports, Boston being second. Two
 thirds of Hhe foreign wool brought into the United States during Septem- 1 ber came through the port of Boston, ! 1,63S, 600 pounds of class 1 in the Agreasa being imported from the Ar
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