Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-06-10
MADE A GOOD RECORD.
ADMINISTRATION HAS ACCOM-.
PLISHED MUCH.
McKin1ey'sl Vigorous American Pol
icy-Action On Cuba Will Come in
Due Time-Continued Business Linz
Capital City Chat.

Capital City Chat.
Special Washington correspondence:
President Mckinley has now been
three months in Office, and the record
which his administration has made is
a laudable one In those three months
Congress has been called together,
tariff bill framed, passed by the House,
considered by the Finance Committee
of the Senate, and is now under consid-
Grafton in that body; prison doors have
been opened in Cuba and American
citizens released in great numbers, q
commission has been dispatched to
Europe to inaugurate and Initiate a
movement in favor Of a bimetallic con-
ference. a commissioner has been dis
patched to Cuba to obtain information,
in order that the President may act in
telligently in regard to the matters OF
that island, warship has been sent to
Hawaii to protect the American inter
ests there and open the way for more
important action regarding that appli-
can't for membership in the Union, and
changes in the offices are being made
as rapidly as consistent with the con-
ditions under which the civil service
was left by the preceding administra-
ton. If any gentleman who is inclined
to be faultinding with the progress of
events under the new administration
can point to any administration in
which there was greater prOmptness of
1t, ~. ,y,I 1>1 c,v1 f,o,
if not, let him cease breeding dissa It's
faction by complaints.
Action Should Not Be Hasty.
People who are inclined to criticise
the apparent delay of Congress and
the administration in regard to Cuba,
step which might complicate the rela-
tons OF this government with one Or
more great nations Of Europe, cannot
be undertaken without careful thought
and examinati ton into the situation. The
consular representatives in Cuba must
of course to a great extent be the eyes
of the administration, and with all
those offices filed by men of former
| administration it is not surprising that
| President Mckinley and his Cabinet
| have found it necessary to exercise
! great caution in taking so important a
| step as that which is demanded by
| many people in the United States, or
| that they are unwilling to act until re-
| ports are received from their own rep
resentatives recently dispatched to
that island When the work which
this administration has already done
in the release of American citizens
from Cuban prisons and the relief of
other Americans there from starva ton
is compared with the attitude and acts
of the last administration On this sub
iect. it would seem that the contrast is
decidedly striking.
| The Retaliation Ruyaboo.
| Those foreign countries which are
proposing to ''retaliate," by shutting
out American products, if our tariff
law does not suit them, will think twice
before they enter upon one-sided wal
of this sort. Austria-Hungary, which
makes the loudest talk in that line
took So, 439, 651 worth of our produc
tons last year, and sold us $7,644, 154
| worth of her own products. Argentina
| which has also suggested a course OF
| this kind, took $5,979,S46 worth of oul
products in 1896 and sold us $9,313, 1885,
| worth of her own. Japan took 81, $40,
| $50 worth of our exports and sold tC
| people of this country $50, 537 ,02S OF
| her products. When countries with
| those relations realize that systematic
| exclusion of our products from theil
markets would result in cutting off
| much larger sales of their own pro
| ducts to people of this country, they
will stop talking about retaliation
| against the tariff, or at least do moth
| ing more than talk.
China Makes Move.
Even China is waking up on the gol6
question. Information just received
here shows that silver, which in 1866
stood at the rate of Is to / with gold
! at Shanghai, fell to 26 to in 1893, and
now stands at 80 to /, and with the
consequence that there has been {
| marked activity in the development OF
the gold mines of China There are
now fifty-two places In China where
gold has been found, while relatively
Little silver is or has been produced.