Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-08

seem reluctant to admit the natural ex-
cellence of our food products and to ac-
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 en-
ported food staples invites examination
from any quarter and challenges respect
by its efficient thoroughneSs.
Efforts to obtain for American life insur-
ance companies full hearing as to their
business operations in Prussia have. after
severa! years of patient representation,
portant American. companies has been
granted a concession to continue business
in that kingdom.
l 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 satisfactory agree
ment.
The necessity Of Pacific cable to Manila
is alluded to, and he recommends that in
case congress fails to provide for such COM
munication the postmaster genera be en-
powered to call for competitive bids for the
establishment of the cable.
The Samoan Question.
The entire history of the Samoan question
is gone over eXhaustively, and of the recent
conference between Great Britain and Ger
many he says:
The arrangement under which Samoa
was administered had proved imprac-
ticable 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
pelago. To relinquish our rights in the
harbor of Page Page, the best anchorage
been leased 10 the United States in 1873
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
the east. We could not have considered
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 powers. "A satisfactory Arrangement
of Germany and of England, by virtue of
which England retired from Samoa, in
view Of compensations in other directions,
United States all their rights and claims
over and in respect TO that portion OF the
group lying to the east of the one hun
gas aaa sragshg the eeE aands of of M
tuila, Ofoo, OIosenga and Manua 1
transmit to the senate, for its constitutional
action thereon, convention n which, be-
guarantees us the same privileges and con-
ditions in respect to commerce and com
lnffeial vessels in all of the islands of
Samoa as those possessed by GERMANY.
Relations to Cuba.
OF our relations to Cuba during the year
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
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
by enforcing the supremacy of law and
justice; by placing wherever practicable
the machinery of administration in the
hands of the inhabitants: by nstituting
ucation; by fostering industry and trade;
by inculcating public morality, and, in
short, by taking every rational step to aid
the Cuban people to attain to that plane of
self=copscious respect and self-relant
unity which Ats an enlightened community
for self-government within its own
ward Obligations
This nation has assumed before the world
grave responsibility for the future good
government of Cuba. We have accepted a
sternest Integrity, of purpose and the ex-
ercise of the highest wisdom. The new
Cuba yet to arise from the ashes of the
past, must reeds 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
form and manner irreyocably linked with
our own, bat how ard how far is for the fiji
ture to determine In the ripsness of events
it that free Cuba be reality, not name,
d perfect entity, not a hasty experiment
bearing within itself the elements of fall
,srr tt~L ~
took up the wages of battle, is not to be
fulfilled by turning 4drift any loosely
framed commenWeatth 70 face the vicissi-
whose natural wealth and abundant rs-
sources are offset by the incongruities of
their political organization and the re-
sap ,hnrr strength and dissipate their en-
come to Cuba Is TIE restoration Of her agri-
cultural and industrial prosperity, which
will give employment to id!f men and re-
establish the pursuits of peace. This Is her
chief and immediate need
Census of Cub, Being Taken.
On the 18th Of Angus. last an order was
Island 10 be completed on the goth Of No
ish people on the island have until April II,
1900, to elect whether they will remain cti-
zens of spain or become citizens OF Cuba.
taned who shall be entitled to participate
in the formation of the government of
Cuba. BY that time the results Of the cen.
sus will have been tabulated and we shall
proceed to provide for elections which will
commit the municipal governments of the
island to the officers elected by the people:
The experience thus acquired will prove Of
great value in the formation of represen-
tative convention of the people to draft a
constitution ard establish general sys-
len of Independent government for the is
iahG. IA the meantime. and so long as we
exercise conlFo! over the island, the prod
ucts, Of CUBA shpqtita| have market in the
as favorable rates Of duty.as we given to
reciprocity which shall be made.
For the relief of the distressed in the
island of Cuba the war department has
issued supplies to destitute persons,
taoug AZ officers Of las dne army which
eos, Of s' 81 Ill 55ig '7''''9' ''''S' al
To promote the disarmament of the
Cuban volunteer army. and In the iblerest
people the sum of $50 was paid to each
Cuban soldier borne upon the authenti-
Gated rolis on condition that he SHOULD
designated by the United States. The sum
thus disbursed aggregated 81. 547760, which
was paid from the emergency fund pro-
vided by the act OF January g. 1899, for that
Out of the Cuban island revenues during
tt,s six months ending June 80, 1899 ST.
}S.plIO 3 fer aid to the destitute
He says that peaceful rotations have again
been resumed with Spain. and recommends
that legislation that will permit the carry
ing. out of that part of the peace treaty
which provided for the settlement of claims
Of American citizens against Spain by this
government be enacted
The Peace Congress-.
Our connection with the peace congress
Is reviewed at "ishgtI, and the president
says that the results Of the conference
meets the realization of earnest desires bf
fhe part of many of the American psop9E
Df or particular part in this conference
The Dresilant saws.