Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-07

| between the Maritime Canal company and
| the Nicaraguan government has been de-
\ clared forfeited by the latter, and then re-
/ views the work of the United States canal
\ commission and dwells on the Importance
OF the undertaking TO this country, and
1 reneWs his recommendations Of year ago.
/ OF which he says the reasons then present.
4 ed Tor early action are even stronger now.
Inc saoWlng this country VIII make al
/ the Paris exposition Of next year Is treated
! Of at length, and says that we will have
! 100 exhibitors from this country.
Attention is called to the fact that Ger
many declines to recognize the excellence
! of our food products, but predicts a sat
isfaetory settlement of the question. OF
this he says:
The several governments Of the empire
! seem reluctant 10 admit the natural eX-
4 cellence Of our food products and to ac-
! cept the evidence we constantly tender Of
! the care with which their purity is guard
! ed by rigid inspection from the farm
/ through the slaughter house and the pack
| ing establishments. TO the port of ship
! ment. Our system of control over ex-
] ported food staples invites examination
| from any quarter and challenges respect
! by its efficient thoroughness.
Efforts to obtain for American life insur-
| ance companies a full hearing as TO their
business operations in Prussia have, after
/ several years of patient representation,
! happily succeeded and one of the most i'm
portant American companies has been
| granted a concession TO continue business
/ in that kingdom.
| am also glad to announce that the Ger
man insurance companies have been read
mitted by the superintendent of insurance
to do business in the state Of New York
satisfactory progress is reported in the
work OF the Alaskan boundary commits
sion and hopes that the negotiations now in
! progress will end in a satisfactory agree
| mert.
The necessity of a Pacific cable to Manila
! Is alluded to- and he recommends that in
| case congress fails to provide for such com
| munication the postmaster general be en-
| powered to call for competitive bids for the
| establishment of the cable
Wants Commission to China.
q commission TO China is urged in the
| following words
In my message to congress Of December
, ), 1898, | urged that the recommendation
! which had been made to the speaker of the
! house OF representatives by the secretary
1 of the treasury on the 18th of June, 1898, for
! an appropriation for commission to study
4 the commercial and Industrial conditions in
/ the Chinese empire and report as to the OPP
/ pOrtunities for and obstacles to, the en-
| largement Of markets in China for the raw
| products and manufactures Of the United
! States, should receive at your hands the
| consideration which its Importance ana
/ timeliness merited, but the congress failed
| TO take action
! Importance of the subject has steadily
! grown since it was first submitted 10 you.
| and no time should be lost in studying for
! ourselves the resources of this great field
| for American trade and enterprise,
The samoan Question
The entire history o. the Samoan question
| is gone over extensively, and of the recent
conference between Great Britain and Ger
| many he says:
The arrangement under which Samoa
! was administered had proved imprac-
ticabe and unacceptable TO all the pow
ers concerned To withdraw from the
| agreement and abandon the islands to Ger
| many and Great Britain would not be
compatible with our interests in the archi-
| pelago. To relinquish our rights in the
/ barbOr of Page Page the hpSf oro
| in the Pacific, the occupancy of which had
| been leased to the United States in 1878
| by the first foreign treaty ever concluded
by Samoa. was not TO be thought of either
| as regards the needs of our navy or the
interests of our growing commerce with
any proposition for the abrogation Of the
| tripartite control which did not confirm
us in all our rights and safeguard all our
| national interests in the islands.
Our views commended themselves to the
! other poweSs. A satisfactory arrangement
! was concluded between the governments
I of Germany and of England by virtue of
which England retired from Samoa, in
! view Of compsnsations in other directions.
and both powers renounced in favor Of the
! United States all their rights and claims
| over and IN respect 10 that portion OF the
I group lying 10 the east of the one hun
! bred ard seventy-first degree of west
/ longitude, embracing the islands of Tu-
! tuiia, Ofoo, Olosenga and Manua |
/ transmit to the senate. for its constitutional
action thereon. convention which, be-
| guarantees us the same privileges and con-
! ditiOns in respect to commerce and COM
mercial vessels in all OF the islands of
| Samoa as those possessed by GERMANY.
Relations 10 Cuba.
OF our relations to Cuba during the wear
he recalls the Withdrawal of the Spanish
! garrisons and the establishment of Ameri-
/ can military government until such time
as the people We're capable of caring for
and maintaining government of their
own. He says that our pledge 10 Cuba to
| establish an Independent government is Of
the highest honorable obligation and must
! be sacredly kept. OF the progress being
made in the island he says
! / believe that substantial progress has
been made in this direction, All the admin
istrative measures adopted in Cuba have
/ aimed TO fit it for regenerated existence
! by enforcing the supremacy of law and
! justice: by placing wherever practicable
! the machinery of administration in the
! hands of the inhabitants: by instituting
| needed sanitary reforms: by spreading ed
| ucation by fostering industry and trade:
\ by intoxicating public morality, and in
I short, by taking every rational step to aid
the Cuban people to attain 10 that plane of
self-conscious respect and self-reliant
unity which fits an enlightened community
for self-goVernment within its own
sphere, while enabling it to fulfill all out
ward obligations.
This nation has assumed before the world
a grave responsibility for the future good
! government of Cuba We have accepted a
| trust the fultlment of which calls for the
! SleTneSt integrity OF purpose and the eX-
ercise Of the highest wisdom The new
| Cuba yet TO arise from the ashes of the
! past. must needs be bound to US by ties of
singular intimacy and strength if its en-
/ during welfare is to be assured. Whether
! those ties shall be organic or conventional
! the destinies of Cuba are in some rghtftl
| form and manner irrevocably linked with
our own, but how and how far is for the fu-
ture to determine in the ripeness of events
| Whatever be the outcome. we must see to
| ii that free Cuba be a reality, not a name
! perfect entity, not a hasty experiment
| bearing within itself the elements of fail
| ure: Our mission. to accomplish which we
! took up the wages of battle, is not to be
| fulfilled by turning adrft any loosely
! framed commonwealth to face the vicissi-
| tudes which too often attend weaker states
! whose natural wealth and abundant re-
| sources are offset by the incongruities of
their political organization and the re-
| curing occasions for internal rivalries TO
! sap their strength and dissipate their en-
| ergies The greatest blessing which can
come TO Cuba is the restoratio of her agri-
! cultural and industrial prosperity which
| will give employment to idle men and re-
establish the pursuits of peace. This is her
| chief and immediate need.
Census of Cuba Being Taken.
On the 10Th of August last an order was
| made for the taking of the census in the
| island, to be completed on the 30th of No
vember. BY the treaty of peace the Span
| ish people on the island have until April H.
| 1900, to elect whether they will remain cit-
| zens Of Spain or become citizens of Cuba
| Until then it cannot he definitely ascer-
| tanned who shall be entitled to participate
in the formation of the government of