The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-07
DUR Foreign Relations.

| the congress, resulting in wise and judi
| ciouS action.
Our Foreign Relations.
| Our foreign relations are treated ex-
| hat stively, and a general state of tran
quilHty is shown with all countries. In
| this connection he notes that the contract
between the Maritime Canal company ana
| 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
| renews his recommendations OF year ago,
| of which he says the reasons then present.
ed for early action are even stronger now.
The showing this country Will make al
| the Paris exposition of next year is treated
| of at length, and says that we VIII have
| 1900 exhibitors from this country.
Attention is called to the fact that Ger
! many declines to recognize the excellence
| of our food products but predicts sat-
isfactory settlement Of the question. OF
| this he says:
The several governments of the empire
seem reluctant to admit the natural ex-
| cellence of our food products and to acc
| 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 O 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 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 general 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
compatible with our interests in the archi
| peago. To renquish our rights in the
| harbor of Page Page, the best anchorage
been leased to the United States in 1878
| by the first foreign treaty ever concluded
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as repards the needs If orr Raw or The
| interests of our growing commerce with
| the east We could not have considered
any proposition for the abrogation of the
tripartte 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
| was concluded between the governments
| of Germany and of England by virtue of
| which England retired from Samoa, in
| view of sompensations in other directions,
| and both powers renounced in favor of the
United States all their rights and claims
! ever and in respect 10 that portion OF the
group lying to the east of the one hun
| dred and seventy-first degree of west
! longitude, embracing the Islands Of Tu-
tuiia. Ofoo Olosenga and Manua. l
! transmit to the senate, for its constitutional
action thereon. convention which. be-
| sides the provisions above mentioned, also
| guarantees us the same privie ges and con-
| ditions in respect to commerce and COM
mercial vessels in all of the islands of
| Samoa as those possessed by GERMANY
| R.I,tians IN cuy,
| :" '
| OF our relations to Cuba during the year
| garrisons and the establishment of Amerl-
| can military government until such time
| as the people were capable of caring for
| and maintaining a government of their
| own. He says that our pledge to Cuba to
establish an independent government Is Of
| the highest honorable obligation and must
| made in the island he says
| | believe that substantial prorress has
been made in this direction All the admin
istratiye measures adonted In Cuba have
| aimed to fit II for a rerenerated existence
nv enforcing the sunremacv of law ana
| ilistice. Inv placing wberever nracticabla
| The machinery or aSministra tipn IN the
| hands Of The inbabitants' bV inst - ir,e
needed sanitary rafnrnls. by SnraaSino "a
400 Hon. h,, fnstarin,, ia go, - ~ "a rs. ~
| Nv innnlcatipo rnhifo ,onraIiyy anu uiauS
| Sot ~, taii5 pa a n n,iy any, ~
the c,,bSr 1919 ~ a. - e. steP " alv
cn oos,ii pvoPir 20 atteii 70 'hat plane OF
| unity which fits an enlightened community
| loT ser government Wlthln It's own
| splere, WINE enaolihg ii TO fuihil all out
| VAIN opiiSatlohs'
llls hatloh mas assumed before inc world
| crave responsIpiIlty Tor the future good
| soVerhlhent OF Cuba, we nave accepted a
lIust tne Imminent OF when calls for the
| sterHest ltegTlty OF purpose ana the eX-
| erClse OF the hlghest WISDOM, The new
| tupa YET 10 arse from the ashes or the
past, must needs ne bound 10 us by ties OF
| singular intimacy ana strength II its en-
| curing Weltare is 10 be assured. Whether
those ties shall be organic or conventional,
| the destnles or cuba are in some rightful
| form ana manner irrevocably linked with
our own, but how and how far Is for the flu
| Whatever be the outcome, we must see to
| it that free Cuba be reality not name,
perfect entity, not nasty experiment
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