The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-13

man says he is not prepared to make any
thing like a full report. There are mann
schools both in town and in country. Thos
! in the country are poorly and irre=uiarl7
attended. The children are brigh. ant
quick, develop earlier than ours and man!
are capable of learning to read and write
much sooner than the American children
The prompt sending of teachers Of the
lower grades acquainted with both Eng
fish and Spanish would, he thinks, be th'
hest step to facilitate a change in tbs
system of education and to enable the ris
ing generation to become Americanlzed
The athoHc colleges both in San ICar
and Ponce haze suffered such falling OF
Of support, owing to thd~war, that he Car
form no estimate of the work they dc
and the work they are capable Of doing.
The organized charities in Porto Rice
are defective.
Father Sherman says the system OF
burial in Porto Rico has been barbarous.
In places corpses are thrown into shallow
graves sometimes without box or casket.
The cemeteries are. too small and fire.
quently crowded
FEARFUL STATE OF MORALS.
The state of morality can be inferred
from the fact that the numbe. of illeglti-
mate children exceeds that of the legiti-
mate. Concubinage is said to b. com non
and is not sufficiently discountenanced
either legally or socially. The problems
in Porto Rico that are most difficult is the
eradication Of this great evil, owing to
the mixture Of races there. 1t IS often as
serted that the Catholic clergy are partly
to blame for this deplorable state Of af-
fairs. because marriage is said to be eX-
pensive.
In conclusion he says:
"A million people differing from US in
language literature, tradition, customs
and manners welcome US by reason of po-
litical sympathy and a sentiment of con-
fdence in our desire to govern for their
good to enlarge their liberties and to in
crease the substantial blessings they en-
Joy without imposing on them any new
burdens. Porto Rico is not TO be judged
by the Drumming excitement and manifold
tendencies to unrest due TO a vast polit-
icaI and moral appeal, nor by the acts
Of a few cunning marauders who avail
themselves of exceptional circumstances
to wreak private vengeance or to continue
in the barbarous instinct of destruction.
Nor are we to argue their political inca
pacity from fractional differences, but re
Numbering that they have cities, towns,
villages and are not waste lands as were
California and New Mexico, in 1913. They
are highly civilized, have thousands Of
educated men, able lawyers. excellent
mr. nd n
ufacturers whose establishment - aggregate
many millions Of annual output"
Washington, Jan. Representatives of
the American and the Canadian lumber
interests met in conference here today.
Among the American lumbermen were W.
c. Mcclure of Duluth; S. T. Mcknight. c.
A. Smith and B. F. Nelson of Minneapolis;
Irvine of Chippewa Fails, Wis;
Judge J. W. Cochrane Of Ashland. Wis;
J. H. Parker and W. ". Brown OF Port
land, Ne: c. w. Goodyear Of Buffalo;
Mr.. Thompson and Mr.. Mason Of West
Virginia; F. G. Ames of Puget Sound; ex-
Governor f. f. Jackson of Maryland; Al
exander Stewart of Warsaw. Wis; and
Mr.. Dill, president Of the Baltimore cham
Der Of commerce, and William 5. HARVEY
IF Pennsylvania, secretary of the confer
ance- The Canadians were represented by
William Q. Edwards, VI. P; w Anderson.
the J. II. Booth Lumber com
7any; Q. \. Spain
There were also present United States |
High Joint Commissioner John A. Kasson.
congressman Stewart, Broussard and |
Tawney, and Mr.. Charlton, a member OF /
he Canadian high joint commission. Mr.. /
the first speaker, was followed /
y Representative Tawmey and he by NJ. /
Edwards.
Lumber. IS is said. has been the rock on /
which the United States and the Canadian /
ONT commissioners have split in every
fort a. agreement on a reciprocity
reaty. The Canadians have been uuwill-
ng 10 make any reasonable concessions
without important reciprocal advantages
n iumoer. Ere admission 20 Canada o.
American forest products and free ex-
'ort Of sswloss and pulp VOID are the
oncessions the Canadians offer Pulp (
7ood IS row exported free from Canada /
~ an export duty has been threatened
2 retaliation Tor the 3 duty on white pine
UNDER TIE provincial parliament Of
'ntaT1o already has imposed a retaiatory
XpoTt dury OF saw.oez. In exchange f5g
ne proposed eolceszion- the Canadians
K tals mornings sezsion put IN strong
.e2 ioT f7ee lumber. TIE American how
Fer. 9r7doee3 data te-'ii1g 10 snow THAI
&c manufacture . Iur7s,er z uluch chean-
? n Canada than ta the Unstet States
I'd mat their proximity 20 the New Eng
'Ila market and tas important couces~
.2i-s granted taen BY CANADIAN roads.
aces tfe noTthsez-e-n ard seutaeasre-r j
-odlct o. The Caites States ~ very
2 easi liss esFa1tase and consequently tnesr
si'iassa 5 wholly un-eaaase- i keens
-ooaoie' however. 5aAt the A,aericaa
M s'er'slsu. rataer thaa nat TIE p-nHag
'eaiy oe;~eez re- Two countries shoaf1
'En s'-eie-y taa. wlU consent - a c=nces
On q = pe~ cent from the present 2
iis' Wn-ea v51id make ne Fzss zlss
'aasan4 fee. bar uzs5eg 10 csrcurs-
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