Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS,

INDUSTRIAL CUBA; Being a Study of Present
Commercial and Industrial Conditions with
in the Island for American Capital. Enterprise
and Labor. by Robert p. Porter, special com
mi sioner for the United States to Cuba md
Porte Rico. With Maps and Illustrations New
York; G. T; Putnams Sons. Washington:
Woodward & LothTop
Mr.. Porter went to Cuba to study condf-
lions affecting the vital problems of finance
and commerce. Incidentally he arranged
with General Gomez for the extension of
the gratuity of $},otDUO0 to the Cuban
army. His mission carried him into close
contact with the people and he had every
opportunity to bring his special knowledge
of political economy to bear upon this
new situation. His conclusion is that there
is a glorious future for Cuba if her peo-
pie will submit patiently to the process
of regeneration which is now under way.
and TO the guardianship of the United
States during the days of reconstruction.
He finds the resources of the island Won
derfully rich, and he points out that nature
has decreed the closest kind of union com
merciai between Cuba and the United
States, by reason of a diversity of prod
ucts. One possible obstacle to the course
of industrial progress he notes in the labor
problem. Cuban labor is not satisfactory
Yet the climatic conditions at present for
bid the wholesale Importation of American
labor. If some means can be devised to
furnish ample labor supply the fields
and factories of Cuba will surely boom
with prosperity. Mr.. Porter says that the
particular lines in which the enterprise,
ingenuity and capital of the United States
can he utilized in Cuba will undoubtedly
be in the establishment of public and semi
public works and the Improvement of
methods of production. Among such en-
terpriseS likely to be taken up by Amerl-
can and English capitalists he mentions
T1ay1fG n
street railways ard light railway transpor-
tation in suburban districts. gas works and
electric lighting; unifying and extension of
the railway system; establishment of bet
| ter facilities for coastwise navigation be-
| tween Cuba and the United States; wharf
age. Hghterage and public warehouses;
| telegraph and telephone services; public
| roads and highways, savings banks and
| financial institutions to aid commerce and
| industry; places of amusement, tropical
| gardens and hotels.
DEMOCRACY; a Study of Government. By James
II. Hyslop. Ph D. professor Of logic ant
ethics in Columbia University. New York York
Charles Scrbner's SoLs. Washington: Breu
| tano's.
| Professor Hyslop has come to the con-
| clusion that the prevailing method of gov
| eminent in this country is wrong. He sees
evils round about him which he attributes
| to the system and not to its manner of APP
| plication. He therefore seeks Il remedy fol
| the ills which are most fragrant in the grea
| communities such as that in which he re-
sides His remedies are less radical than ar
those of most other reformers. He does no
pfe pose socialism or repulism, but modif
cation of the present process, to the chic
end of 'integrating and diferentiating thu
| functions of government and of increasing
the powers of the executive" Briefly, h,
| believes in concentrating power and re
| sponsibility to the end that the people IL
| tteir turn may justly distribute praise o
| blame. His scheme is thus broadly state
| in nine propositions: o. a permanent of
| fetal class in subordinate Administrative
| positions, civil service reform extended t
| state and county governments, subject t
| efficiency and good behavior; CD the estab
| lishment of q branch of government o
court, for securing universal official re
sponsibility, including both the executiv
and the legislative functioEar aries, other tina
/ to the electorate, to be called, perhaps,
court of Impeachment and removal; 60 tn
| extension of executive powers of appoin
| nent and influence over legislation; Cd III
| establishment of an agency partly for limit
| ing the abuse of executive powers in az
| pointments and partly for preventing cor
| gressional usurpation and interference
| appointments by means of political bal
| gains and intimidation; 90 the adoption
the English system of representation wit
| some modification in favor of local cond
tons; 90 the further differentiation OF lei