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surrendering the islands, with all their
property interests, to an Gnintelligent
and irresponsible population, even though
1t is in the majority. These islands
should have been kept as a colony and
not admitted as territory of the Union
and for a long time to come should have
been governed with firm hand.
Sugar Decision "a Mistake.
"In my judgment our decision on the
Russian sugar bounty question was
great mistake On the steamer in which
l made the trip from Nagasaki to Via
divostok there were 700 tons of American
farming machinery, orders for which had
been given prior to the raising Of the
sugar question, and all of this was des-
tined to Eastern Siberia and Manchuria.
1t was the opinion of every consul in that
part of the world whom / met and Of
every American merchant from the Pa
cific coast to st. Petersburg, that the or
ders for American machinery had prac-
tically stopped, and that hereafter they
would be taken by German manufacture
ers; indeed this was being done when 1
was there.
"The country from Vladivostok north
through Manchuria and down the valley
of the Amur, is wonderful in it's fertility,
and in few years, owing to its rapid
colonization will become a great source
of the wheat supply of the world. 1t
seemed for 5000 miles of the journey as
if we were travelling through Minnesota
or Nebraska This would be an almost
illimitable market for the agricultural
and mining machinery which we are ca
pable of supplying.
Kind Feeling Tor Americans.
""The people are kindly disposed toward
the Americans, and we ought to sell them
what thew IN o tIot
the advantages were all in our favor
Russia has peculiar way, by executive
order, of making her tariffs vary accord
ing to the circumstances of the situation.
For example, the duty on tea is much
less at Vladivostok than at Odessa, the
object being to have tea come in at an
eastern port and furnish freight for the
Trans Siberian railroad, rather than go
by water around by India, through the
Suez canal into the Black sea, to be
landed at Odessa. AS with tea, so prac-
tically with everything else; this rule
has acted as a preferential tariff in IA
vor Of American products by way of San
Francisco and the Pacific ocean.
This sugar bounty decision was the
result Of divided opinion by the three
appraisers, Mr.. Tichenor holding that
the rebate of tax was not a bounty. Mr..
Some1ville and Mr.. Fischer disagreeing
with him. l did not find man in Rus
STA, either an American or a native, who
did not agree with Mr.. Tichenor The
case is almost exactly parallel with our
treatment Of the alcohol question, and 1
| do not believe that anyone would claim
that the United States government, be-
| cause 1t related the tax on alcohol for
| export thereby paid a bounty on export
| trade. The interests involved Indirectly
are INFINITELY mere important than the
/ sugar question is OF ever can be. That
| is purely local question affecting South
ern Russia, and as I understand it the
whole amount of sugar imported here
was worth less than s250,000 Over against
it is the possible trade, through favored
ports, by direct line of ocean traffic into
what in fifty years will be one of the
most influential powers of the world