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FOR the Times Republican.
Dixie, May 13.-Iowa has much TO say
these days In national affairs, With Hem
derson presiding over the house, Hull |
chairman of committee on military af-
fairs, Hepburn running the Nicaragua !
canal business. conger minister to
China, Allison in the senate on the APP
propriations committee, and Wilson as
secretary of agriculture. Curtis, in his
letter On Cuban and Porto Rican aft
fairs, referring to an extract from
Cuban paper, says:
This writer has accurately defined
the intentions OF the agricultural de-
partment. Secretary Wilson. not salts
fled with the advancement of the agri-
cultural interests of the United
States which has marked his four
years in office, is aiming to make the
country independent of Cuba by devel-
oping the tropical resources of our new
islands. He has succeeded in awakening
many Of the southern farmers To the
advantage of diversified crops and has
persuaded them 10 raise less cotton and
more corn and bacon. He has induced
them to take up cattle and sheep; the
/ planters of Louisiana and the other
gulf states are noW raisn, more rice
| than we need, and under his dirs ction
are beginning to export it. He be.ieves
| that within a few years they Viii be
able TO supply the markets of Porto
Rico and the Philippines When he came
| into ofices.thfre We're a few struggling
\ beet sugar factories, but the industry
mas grgwn until last year we produced
Sl,So0ooo worth OF sugar or 10 per cent
4 of all We use. The remarkable success
4 which has attended his efforts tn pros
/ mote the export Of agricultural pro-
ducts is expected TO BE- repeated in Porto
Rico, Hawaii and The Philippines, and
the Cuban planters have accurately es-
4 timated the danger that threatens than
i from competition. and their only means
of escape is by annexation
4 1t is no exaegsrati0n TO say that
4 Tana Jim has done more 10 make his
4 department worthy Of the name III be-
Z ing a cabinet position than any II his
predecessors. andthere have been many
good men known as secretary Of agri-
culture. His work has been Of the
practical order work thar has resulted
in dollars and cents, not only for the
present, but promises big future re-
turns, as his initiatery steps Will GER
!. talnly produce them. 1t is no Idle claim
W
II almost force Cuba to annex herself to
!. these United States.
: And here is what another Washington
: correspondent had TO say of anothe,
: Iowa man. In recent issue Of the
I Hartford Courant We are told that:
7 The interviews Minister Conger tele-
: graphed from San Francisco are not en-
9 tirely gratifying To the state depart
81 ment If the minister to China ha:
been correctly reported he has been un
q diplomatic in his discussions of tn: Chi
v nesr question in public, and he has givei
fresh cause for criticism of his recen
actions at Pekin. a member of the cab
4 inst, who is most friendly to Ministe
. Conger and had been in sympathy viii
$ the movement To have The republican
y of Iowa give him unanimous nomina
I tion for governor. expressed the hop
= today that Mr. Conger would cease Tn
3 discussion Of the Chinese question ur
i til he reached Washington. and the
make up his mind to become the Cover
10 nor of Iowa.
1T Will be dificult.' said he 80
II Mr.. Conger to explain why he has per
> sistently and continuously misundei
IL sNi2itA iilt lllsA uIlAplIS III luts SDNtII
inent cabed TO him since the beglnnin
OF the trouble at Pekin. That he ha
done this more perslstently than an
other representative OF the gopernmer
o cannot be denied 1t has been mos
embarrassing to the president, and ma
u, seriously complicated the situation s
"a sekin. Instead Of fonowlng the ir
" structions OF the state department.. NJ
n. .frlI
IN arbitrary powers Of Europe. and ga,
lie the voice Of the government To props
sa sitipns which the president utterly II
VI pudiated.
lie powers of Europe, and gave the voice {
a. this government To propositions while
le the president utterly repudiated.
10 1t is the belief in administration Gil
Ia cles that had Minister Conger foilowe
st his instructions the situation at Peki
ia would now be much better than it !
se There has been no disposition 10 hai.
n, ~ criticise Mr. CongerI because we HAY
all realized that the men who Went thu
" the siege at Pckin were sorely trie
ia and that 1t was most difficult for the
as TO disassaesaie their privete grIevanc'
er from the demand OF their government
q. But IL is ditiicul, TO see how the pres
or dent can return Mr.. Conger to PEEK
or and trust ths policy Of this governnel
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