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The times., 1899-06-22
STATEMENT OF TRADE.
Commerce Between America and
Cubn md the PhIIippine-

The following statement OF trade between
the United States and Cuba and the Philip
pines, for the ten months ending April 30.
1899. prepared from official sources, has
been issued by the War Department. The
figures for the corresponding periods o;
the fiscal years 1897 and 1888 are also
given.
The exports from Cuba to the United
States during the above period in 1891 wers
S12.f22 ,445: in 1885 the figures were Sl3,-
760.5S6. in 1893, sI7. Coz. $50.
The imports into Cuba from the United
States during the above periods were:
1897. $4,e57.s26; 1895, Si,sI7,557; 1899. S5.-
s74.473.
The importations of sugar into the Unit
ed States from Cuba in the above perio5s
were: 1897. S5o.s50,7sS pounds. valued at
S.i65.S7S; 1898, 3SI. .27S.6l1 pounds. va,uei
at Ss.5S6.619: 1882 434. l42. .636 pounds. va u
ed at $40. .l25. .7is.
The importations of sugar into the Unit
ed States from the Philippines during the
period stated were: 1897, 61.7o4 500 pounds.
valued at Sl.05s,14 1s9s. 1886 600 pounes
valued at S223.59l; 1899. 81. 1.s25. $50 pounds
valued at S9e9. 1923.
Leaf tobacco imported into the United
States from Cuba was as follows: 1897.
3.ISS.0S5 pounds. valued at 81. .91e. COS; 1895,
ff-Jp.oSS pounuS, Ndiued at S-.Sl4, IL. 1917,
b,S69.61S pounds, valued at S4.024,471
The total amount of Manila hemp i'm
ported into the United States was as fol-
lows: 1887. 3S.39S tons, valued at 81, ,s62.-
6I2; 1898. 1888 tons. valued at S2,791. oil,
1899. 1880 tons. valued at s.. .2S5. les.
That the trade between the United
States and the territory now under mil
itary control is making a gratifying in
crease is shown by the figures for April
as compared with the same month last
year. The figures show that the imports
into the United States from Cuba. Porto
Rico. and the Philippines increased 20 per
cent during the month OF April. and the in
crease in the value of goods shipped from
the United States to these islands was 175
per cent.
The imports in April. 1898 and 1899.
were as follows: Cuba, 1888. s4,196. .s67.
1899, S4,419.712. Porto, Rico; 1898, $751;
2S5; 1899. S7S2, ,172 The Philippines: 1898.
s433.672 1899. s937, 1854.
The exports TO these islands for the
same month were as follows: Cuba. 1895.
s62i,6O2; 1899. si.72S.O62; Porto Rico. 1898.
s156, 1874; 1899. sS16,669. The Philippines.
1898, 81, 0S5; 1899. S112, ,2S7.
The times., 1899-06-22
TO RECEIVE THE VOLUNTEERS.
for Care of Troops
Returning From MANILA.


Returning From Manila.
The arrangements for the care of the
volunteers returning from Manila are
nearly completed. Reports received by
Quartermaster General Ludington from
San Francisco state that the new general
hospital under construction there will be
ready for occupancy not later than July
l. Surgeon General Sternberg has gone
to San Francisco to inspect the sanitary
arrangements of the hospital and the new
model camp. which is being constructed
under the direction OF General Shafter.
DR.. Anita Newcomb McGee. superintend-
ent of the Army Nurse Corps. has ordered
nearly fifty trained nurses 10 be on hand
at San Francisco to assist in the care of
the invalid soldiers
Commissary General Weston has issued
instructions to Major Gallagher. depot
commissary at San Francisco. to see that
everything in the way OF food supplies is
provided He has directed Major Gala
CHER to issue in addition to the regular
rations a supply of milk. butter, and eggs
for all the soldiers. whether invalided or
not These supplies will be issued in the
following proportions: To every 100 ra-
tions u IL gallons of milk, 10 pounds
CT butter and 10 dozen eggs.
1t is the intention of the department
to see that everything necessary for the
comfort of the returning volunteers while
in camp at San Francisco awaiting mus
ter out is provided. and General Shafter
has been directed to inform the depart
ment OF anything that may be needed at
the camp.
The times., 1899-06-22
Cleveland Strike Reflections

(From the Philadelphia Ledger)
When the great street car strike in Cleveland
is fully investigated, If il Ever is, it will prob
ably he found that the people who are doing
the violence in connection with it. manning per
sons and destroying property, are not the strill-
ers themselves, but the lawiess element which
exists in the population of every large city,
and which rejoces in such occasion as this
when it can indulge its propensity for crime
under cloak of public sympathy. 1t is the same
element which packs political conventions, and
stufs balot-boxes with votes for the worst can
didates 1t is the element which constitutes
the grdvcst menace TO the American system oi
government because it is the element that
makes possible the boss rule, of which We have
conspicuous illustrations all over the country,
and nowhere more SO than right here in Phiia.
dolphin. It Is only occasions OF out
break like that in Cleveland. but its destructive
work in politics is going on all the time. and i.
made plainly apparent by its results
The times., 1899-06-22
An Army of Evasion.

The New York Herald has il from a
thigh official that. when the President
returns and considers ''the propriety of
increasing the army in order to place ad-
ditional troops at General Otis disposal, -
any increase will be effected by means of
enlistment. and the recruits so obtained
viii be formed into regiments
The information of the Herald" is
probably authentic. and the plan it out
lines must be conceded to be a conven-
lent and clever one frcm the view point
Of Mr.. Ayers Office. II may involve dis
advantages and open the door to abuses,
but these the public will have great diff
Guilty in discovering. owing to the secre-
tive manner in which it will be possible
10 conduct operations. Recruiting Offices
viii be opened only where il may please
the war authorities to locate them. The
returns from these agencies will not be
public property, but liable to bulletin ed
itorship and eKpurgation, like the de-
spatches from Manila. At present a
liberal estimate of enlistments for the
regular army places them at about one
thousand q week. This number, il is said
by the 'HeraId's" high official" can be
increased whenever Mr.. Mckinley chooses
10 issue orders to that effect What mi
Iaculous power may inhere in a Presiden-
tial decree that more people than formerly
shall yearn for service in the Philippines
we are not advised, and are rather skep-
teal regarding the proposition. But there
is no doubt that there viii be great en-
thusiasm and a rush for Khaki uniforms
and canned beef. according to the Admin
isuation and the portion OF the press un-
der its control.
II the idea of this movement be TO
raise an army Of evasion. probably it will
accomplish its purpose, or. at least keep
The lnes of national criticism down to a
bearable degree Of heat for a while But
If it is to be an army for the purposes
OF Philippine invasion, then We are afraid
Mr.. Mckinley is on the wrong track
What he wants, of course. is thirty-five
thousand patriotic men. representative of
the intelligent and respectable citizenship
of the country. He knows that he could
get them without trouble or delay if there
We're man at the head Of the War De-
partment enjoying the confidence of the
people. He also knows that the class of
recruits needed viii not apply for service
while Algerism dominates his war coun-
ellis and controls the American Army.
The times., 1899-06-22
Work of the Tnrin.

ttTom the Philadelphia RecOrd)
Ii it be the interest Of the trusts to maintain
the existing tariff the buwark of these monop-
olies, it is as manifesty in the interest of Amer
lean consumers to encourage imports whenever
combinations force up domestic prices beyond
the level of fair profits. The best that can be
said for protection by its advocates is that its
object is to adjust duties 50 as to equaiize the
differences between the wages OF American and
foreign labor. Herein they coniound rates of
wages with cost of production, which are essen
tally different things. As a rule, the economy
OF high wages, in attracting the best labor and
sustaining the morale OF workngmen, causes a
lessening OF the cost OF production This Is what
explains the eyer-increasing expectations Of Amer
lean manufactures. FOR the production of which
the highest wages in the industrial world are
paid. These growing shipments OF the products
of skilled labor TO all the foreign marts Of trade
demonstrate to the most careless observer that
the tariff has lost its significance. both as an
economic and political factor. While the higher
wages in this country. by stimulating and re-
warding the energies of worliingmen diminish
cost OF production in comparison with the cost of
lowwage labor, the protective duties many raw
materials OF industry tend to heighten the cost OF
finished products and to check expectations. This
is what the Democratic tariff bf 1894 remetlied
by transferring a large number OF raw materials
to the free list
The times., 1899-06-22

(From the St Louis Globe Democrat)
While it is true that armed Tagal forces are still
in the field, it is equally certain that they have
ceased TO be formidable. Their claim TO the
sovereignty has become farcical. They hoped to
defeat the Americans in battle by superior mum
bers, that the climate would destroy i large
part of our army and that the non-expansiouists
would create in this country a strong sentiment
against annexation. How many men it will
take to properly garrison the whole group is an
open question But the war for the sovereignty
is over. The Tagals may continue 10 fight for
something else. but not seriously for that. 1t
may be asked what else would satisfy them.
They have made any statement this
point. All that is reasonable has been offered
them by proclamation. If they still have an
expectation that they pull down the flag
of the United States on any island of the Phil
ippines they are simply madmen who, if they
persist, will be wiped out.
The times., 1899-06-22
TREASURY DEFICIT CUT DOWN.
Indebtedness for This Fiscal Year
Now Estimated Mt S1OO.OOO.OOO.

The Treasury deficit for the current fis-
cal year amounted yesterday to S100. .301,
520.97. The Governments total indebted
ness on account of the Spanish American
war was much greater several months
ago, but the recent Improvement in
finances as a result of the enormously
large customs and internal receipts has
been so marked as TO cause Secretary Gage
to revise his estimate of the Indebtedness
for the year which will end on June 30.
He now predicts that the deficit will not
exceed 500 900. 900 and he believes that it
may possibly be as low as sos. 000, 900.
An estimated statement of the expendi-
lures for the current fiscal year, now near
ly completed, places the disbursements at
S610, 100000. The receipts by the end OF
the present month will be about s514 .000,
600 Up to yesterday the total expend-
lures of the Government for the year have
been S599, 1892, and the receipts have
been S499. All 451. The estimate of total
receipts for the year is based on the as
sumption that the total receipts from in
ternal revenue sources will be s272, 800. .00l
fIom customs $205, 500 600, and from mis-
cellaneous sources of revenue S36 800. 900
In his annual estimates submitted to Con-
gress last December Secretary Gage fig
ured that the deficit for the current fiscal
year would be SIP 900, coo, so that the
present good showing is a surprise to him
and to the other officials of the Treasury
Department who had been estimating a
deficit considerably in excess of S100, ,O0O.
coo and counting on the possible necessity
of borrowing money.
The customs receipts have exceeded all
expectations. especially during the spring
months, and this fact is largely response
ble for the decreased deficit. The internal
| receipts under the war revenue law have
also been very large, and it can be said
that the law has been all that Secretary
Gage, at least, expected from it.
The times., 1899-06-22
IN CUBA AND PORTO RICO.
Interesting Observations Made by
CnPtnin Carr In the Islands

Capt. d. ]. Carr. OF the Signal Service.
reported at the War Department yesterday
preparatory to his departure for the Phil
ippines. Captain Carr WIS connected with
the signal service in Cuba and Porto Rico
and has just returned to this country from
San Juan Speaking Of the situation in
forto Rico. Captain Carr said yesterday
that the people there were greatly re-
1olced over their annexation to the United
states In his opinion. the people OF Porto
htco are far superior in intelligence to the
natives of Cuba. The latter, he says. have
little if any ambition and take no interest
IN the improvements inaugurated in San
tiago province by General Wood. In Porto
RICO the natives are anxious to become
thoroughly Americanized; they want to
learn the American language and adopt
American customs.
Captain Carr described the recent rob-
berry of the old church 10 Santiago prov nee.
when the thieves procured thousands of
dollars worth of jewels. To prevent dis
covery they had cut the wire from Ell
Cobre to Santiago. and then retreated into
the woods. The operator at Ell Cobre,
VINO was signal service man. soon dis
covered that there was something the mat
ter with the wire and he procured an old
mule and rode rapidly along the line of
the telegraph until ne discovered the break.
He quickly mended the wire and returned
to the station and sent the news of the
robbery to Santiago. Owing to his quick
announcement the authorities were able
to get Immediately upon the trail of the
robbers and captured them the next day.
They were tried by a justice in the FL
Cobre station, convicted and sentenced.
All of their plunder was recovered.
Captain Carr states that the coffee raisers
and business men of Porto Rico complain
bitterly about the protective tariff imposed
by the United States upon the importation
of products of Porto Rico into Cuba. When
Cuba was under Spanish control there was
no duty on coffee raised in Porto Rico.
Its other principal market-Spain-h also
been closed by high tariff. since the ISL
and has passed under American control.
and the coffee plantations have been pro-
ducing large quantities of coffee, but the
planters have no market for their goods.
The protective tariff of the United States
operated against the trade in tobacco and
other products. The Porto Ricans, he
added, hope that some action will be taken
Immediately looking to a removal of
what they regard as unjust taxation.
The times., 1899-06-22
A Race of Dwarfs in the pyrenees.


Prof Miguel Marazta has made what seems a
curious anthropological discovery in the Valley
OF Rrbas (Gerona), at the end Of the Eastern
PyTenees. There exists in this district some
whgt numerous group Of people, who are called
Nanos (dwarf.} by the other inhabitants, and.
as a matter of fact. not more than four feet
in height. Their bodies are fairly well built
hands and feet small shoulders and hips broad.
making them appear more robust than they really
are. Their features peculir that there Is
no mistaking them among others. All have red
hair: the face Is as broad long, with high
cheekbones, strongly developed jaws and fiat
nose The eyes are not horizontal, but somewhat
oblique, like those Of Tartars and Chinese A
few struggling. weak hairs are found in place Of
bead The skin is pale and hIbby. Men and
women are so much alike that the only
he told from the clothing. Though the mouth is
large the lips do rot quite cover the large, pro
iecting incisars. The Sanos. who the butt Of
the other inhabitants. live entirely by themselves
in Eebas They intermarry only among them
selves, so that their peculiarites continue TO be
reproduced. Entirely without education. and
without any chance OF improving their condition,
they lead the life OF pariahs. They know their
own names. but rarely remember those Of their
parents can hardly tell where they live and have
no idea Of numbers.
The times., 1899-06-22
The Zionist Movement.


American Hebrews OF course. have no need OF
4 refuge from the tangible manifestations OF in
tolerance In the United States all races and
creeds. so far as their practices do not conflict
with the laws and with the accepted ethical
standards OF the land. enjoy perfect equality anl
are admitted TO the privileges Political
prefermcnt and social distinctions are attainable
by Jews not less than by Gentiles. Under our in
sttutions all classes Of people have the greatest
liberty compatible with the happiness OF Others.
No one Is ostraeised Disseminated against on
account Of religion Consequently. the wish To
escape excessive burdens to find opportunity
for freer exercise OF abilities cannot animate
American Zionists. With them union of the race
as an Independent people upon the soil which be
longed to it centuries ago represents a sentiment
Il religious idea.
Many Zionists doubtless desire merely to i'm
prove the condition OF Hebrews who feel the
weight Of despotism and are themselves perfectly
content to remain here. But Widespread dis
position nevertheless exists to encourage the
project. Future developments viii. therefore, at
tract extensive attention.
The times., 1899-06-22
The MnIincux Cnse


(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
The District Attorneys attack on the May
grand jury for its action in the Moineux case will
lose much weight with the public because his
action in the has been open to
criticism. From the start he has pro
ceeded the assumption that Young Moineux
was the person who sent Cornish the poison that
killed Mrs. Adams and, in spite of conflicting
testimony. he has refused to admit the posi-
biity that any other person could have been
guilty Of the deed. lie has created the impression
that he was bent convicting young Molineux
whatever the character OF the evidence in the case
This has worked to the detrimcnt Of justice In
every case Of this kind it is important that there
should be no appearance OF persecution, for other
wise public sympathy for the accused is almost
certain 10 be aroused. The July grand jury
will promote the ends OF justice by free and full
consideration OF all the facts involved in the
Adams case regardless of the conclusions Of the
District Attorneys office
The times., 1899-06-22
Criticism OF Public schools.
iFrom the Chicago News.)

--tFIUII VITINaEU NtWs-l
In public schools while certain amount Of
Just criticism is helpful and wholesome. the
general tendency toward carping and fault find
ing needs to be carefully restrained II the schools
are To accomplish the best work. Boards of
education, as a rule, fairly competent to look
after the Interests committed TO their care and
they are likely TO attend to them much better
than the public can by constant agitation, mass
meetings, and resolutions. There may be times
when the latter course is iusliAabc even
necessary, but they extremely rare More
over the danger to the schools lies in this ex-
treme readiness as to criticism. The habit. like
that of fault finding in the household, grows by
what il feeds upon and, instead OF tending to
advancement, produces merely discord and stays
progress. BY such course, also. i city, like an
individual, acquires unenviabie reputation.
Educators of assured position not likely to
accept leadership under such unfavorahle con
dtions and in the end the educational interests
of the city nearly always the loser By such
The times., 1899-06-22

official endorsement by active preparations
for war. 1t is grave business, but the
British Empire cannot and Will not refuse
the challenge.
Consequently. it is highly probable that
We shall see as interesting a minor war as
the history of recent times can show.
The latest estimates of our own military
experts place the fighting force of the
Beers at twenty ty-fve thousand men, and
this includes a large number of skilled
officers who are suspected of being ''on
leave from regiments in the German and
other European armies.
To meet and overcome this small but
well equipped army Of the Transvaal it
is probably true, as Lord Douglas Comp
ton has said, that sixty thousand men will
be required, but we have no doubt that
they will be forthcoming and mobilized
in Cape Colony very speedily. The Brit
ish War Office has a way of finding trans
portation, whether the owners of bottoms
want TO furnish them for military pur-
poses or not. II it were an English in
stead of an American army that was in
a dangerous situation in the Philippines
the question of carriage would not bother
John Bull while there was a steamer fly
ing the Queens flag that could be reached.
The First Army Corps is ready in Eng
land, and We are greatly at sea if con-
tingents from Bombay, Calcutta, and per-
haps Bermuda and the Barbados are not
racing over the ocean for Cape Town.
War in South Africa may possibly be
averted. but it will have to come sooner
or later. and it will surprise those who
have been watching the development of
the trouble with intelligence if it is not
closely at hand.
The times., 1899-06-22
scrupIes of Conscience.

The vegetarians have been holding COM
munion with one another on new prob
lem. They have long advocated the virtue
of vegetable foods in place OF beefsteak
and chicken. but it has only lately struck
them that they. ought not to wear shoes,
because animals have to be killed to fur
nish the leather. This is a worse juan
Diary than the first, for whereas one may
live entirely on vegetable food and not be
unhappy. shoes, in this climate, are abso-
lutely necessary TO health, and there seems
to be no very good substitute for leather
as material for them. Paper has not yet
been manufactured in a form sufficiently
flexible and durable to be of much use in
the shoemaking business, and wood, while
it is common shoe material in Holland,
would hardly be popular here. Some sort
of basket-work might be contrived, or oil
cloth might be used for the sole of the
shoe. but any reform in this direction is
likely to be attended with vexation of spirit
both on the part of the shoemaker and his
customers.
There is however, way out of this
dilemma, If the vegetarians are really in
earnest. 1t will be noticed that shoes or
sandals are worn in Eastern countries by
Buddhists and other yegetarians, and the
problem of leather can surely be solved by
us as it is by these people. A Hindu who
lectured in this country not very Tong ago
explained the arrangement He was talk
ing to miscellaneous crowd of people,
who were for the most part skeptical about
the value of his doctrines. and after his
lecture ne gave the audience permission to
ask him questions. With an air OF
triumph. some one inquired:
Didn't some animal have to be killed to make
your shoesg
The shoes of the lecturer were pair OF
tan -colored foot coverings. obviously of
Indian manufacture With his insc-uta-
BILE smile. the man Of the East replied:
No; in India We make shoes Of the skins Of
dead animals. not Of killed animals.
1t is somewhat alarming TO think OF
the prunings of modern civilization which
would ensue if the vegetarians had their
way. There would be no more fish, oys-
| tiers. beef, chicken. eggs or lobster on our
tables: no more fur or feather trimmings
on hats or gowns, since the wild creatures
who are shot or trapped to furnish these
things have a way of dying in remote and
secluded places; no more rat or cockroach
poison in the drug store; no more fishing
rods in the hands of small boys. It might
| even come to the point at which water
would be forbidden on account of the
bacteria.
The times., 1899-06-22

(Fron the New Orleans rimesDemoerat.)
Il was travelling through 4 thinly settled dis
trict up the country some time ago said a
drummer who can't tell lie when he sees one,
''and had occasion TO stop at small town of the
line OF the road The only vslcie could get at
the station was 4 ramshaclc buggy driven by an
old darkrv. and Is suIilej up the road |
amused myself 10y pumping hiu about people and
things. Finally il occurred to to get some
POINTERS ON the best place To lodge Look here.
GncIe' l said where do folks generally hang out
here?' The old man gave a sudden start and
glared at me with evident apprehension. Wei.
bo~s.' he replied in q haasSe whisper. they mos
crner'ly hangs out on that thar big chestnut tree
NanGcr second lin frum III hott0m-'