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sumption would be an exceedingly
small fraction of the domestic product
of the United States. The Canadian
farmer and lumberman desire free ac-
cess to the American market, not for
the purpose of depressing American
prices but for the purpose of enabling
the Canadian producers to add the
duty to the price he receives.
The policy of the near future Will
be either reciprocity in trade or re-
ciprocity in tariffs. Canada will not
continue to impose duties Of one-halt
the amount that is imposed by the
United States, with the result Of giving
the latter country command of her
markets Of that country. Free trade
in natural products and moderate
revenue tariff upon imports other than
natural products, would be a policy
that Canada would probably be pre-
pared to adopt. Failing to obtain this,
the demand will speedily become ir-
resistible for reciprocity in tariffs and
for an increase of our duties from 20
per cent to so per cent, followed by the
expansion of our manufacturing in
terests, and the shutting out from our
market Of no less than three-fifthS OF
the manufactures at present imported
from the United States. The entire
case may be summed up in a single
sentence. Canada will say to the
United States, You let down your bars,
or we will put up ours"
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writer of such article, statement or
editorial, signed or printed at the end
thereof, subject to penalty of one
thousand dollars for each offence, to
be recovered in a civil action.
A critical examination Of this statute
discloses several defects in it. In the
first place, it is obvious that it will
not, and probably was not designed to,
afford protection against the publ
cation of ones private and domestic
affairs. 1t would not, for instance, pre-
vent a newspaper from printing all
the prurient details Of a family scandal
or divorce suit.
The exception of persons holding Of
flee should be broadened so as to in
clude candidates for public office; and
there should be a proviso that persons
who have themselves voluntarily dedi-
Gated their features to the public by
some act Of publication are not within
the protection of the act. 1t may well
be doubted, too, If the phrase (which
caricature will in any manner reflect
upon :. -. the political motives
of the person so caricatured," is not
too vague to be effective.
With these exceptions, however, the
act seems to be a fair attempt to rem
edy the evil aimed at, and will afford
a good basis for enterprising legis-
lators in other states to work on.
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producing countries, it has suffered
from the heavy bounties paid to beet
sugar. L.
These are what are called material
questions, but material questions have
a good deal to do with the success of
any government or administration. If,
at the very beginning Of its life, the
Cuban government works it's way
through hard times period, most folks
will agree that the prospects for
longer existence are very good.
In any country we judge something
of it's government from the men who
are honored with public positions. If
they are good men and true, we think
well Of that government No one
doubts that the schoolmaster-presi
of Cuba, Tomas Estrada Palma, is a
good man and a strong one, too. The
pastor and his other neighbors at Cen
trail Valley, New York, where seventeen
years of his life were passed as the
head Of a school for Cuban youths
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examining the statistics of American
trade, that Great Britain is the largest
consumer the United States possesses
for her varied products, that Germany
ranks next to Great Britain, and that
the Dominion of Canada occupies the
third place on the list, and, as con-
sumner of American manufactures, 1t
leads both Great Britain and Germany
in the amount of it's imports from the
United States. The great trade with
Canada is not divided in fair proper
lions between American exports to
Canada and American imports from
Canada. The great development of
the American export trade to the Do
minion has been due to a moderate
and liberal tariff policy upon the part
of the government of the last-named
country, while the meagre proportion
of the exports of Canada to the United
States, aside from precious metals, is
due to the repressive and illiberal poll
icy of the United States toward Can
ada. These two policies on the part
of these two countries have been
working out their results since the
abrogation of the reciprocity treaty in
1866, and during that entire period
Canadian duties upon the imports of
the products of the factories and
workshops of the United States have
been, on an average, less than one-half
the duties imposed by the United
States on Canadian imports.
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By Capt. +. 10. Barber.
Editor of the National Gaardsman.

In the military service, the abuse of
alcoholic liquors is one of the most
potent factors by which efficiency is
impaired; and in the past it's effects
were SO apparent that drunkenness
was largely looked upon as a distinct-
lively military failing. It's influence as
well as it's prevalence Is indifferently
shown by military statistics; for all
drinking men do not enter hospitals for
alcoholism, and a certain proportion of
drunkards succumb to such various
diseases as gastritis, cirrhosis of the
liver and nephritis, in the development
and ultimate result of which the use
of intoxicants~ has probably played no
minor part; further, the term alcohol
ism includes many pathological condi-
lions and their symptoms, these vary
ing according to the quantity Of alcohol
taken and the manner in which it is
consumed. Chronic drunkenness occurs
chiefly among old soldiers, and these
steady drinkers, although their rates
are higher, are not proportionately
represented on sick reports as COM
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vored by malnutrition: and hence uni
formity in the time of taking food, as
well as it's good quality and ample va
riety and amount, should be the con-
slant care of the company commander.
No small proportion Of soldiers who
would resent the title Of drunkard
take quantity of alcohol daily suffi-
cient to maintain a certain state or de-
gree Of stimulation for months at
time, exhibit no special peculiarities
of conduct and attend to their duties
with the utmost regularity. Such usu-
ally die from or are discharged by rea-
son of some acute Inflammation or
chronic disease largely dependent upon
alcoholic irritation. While it is obvious
that any attempt at defining the limita-
lions of this class must be purely ar
bitrary, it is considered by many au-
thorities that any man drinking on an
average more than two ounces of pure
alcohol during the twenty-four hours,
whatever may be the form in which it
is absorbed, may be included in this
category.
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spect to alcoholics; and prolonged ex-
posture to heat, cold and moisture has
frequently been observed to develop, in
such men, a latent desire for drink
which probably otherwise would have
remained dormant. A certain number of
periodical military drunkards are true
degerenates. Without apparent cause, in
the face of promises and protests to the
contrary and in spite of the knowledge
Of inevitable court-martial and dis
grace, alcoholic exercises are begun and
continued until exhausted nature
brings the debauch to a close. Then
follow deep contrition and humiliation,
renewed and earnest promises of re-
form and an apparently sincere at
tempt to repair the damage done to
health and character, period of deco
rous life, and again plunge into ex-
cess. The greater proportion of inc
briates, however, as found in the mill
tary service, appear to be men of I'M
stable mental equilibrium, indecision
and weak character. Such, under any
conditions out of the ordinary, find the
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The Law of Privacy

of the decision, and to discover, if may
be, some remedy for what is undoubt-
edly a growing disregard for the rights
of privacy
The case before the Court of Appeals
was this: A photographic company
had printed, and milling company
had circulated as an advertisement
Of it's flour, some prints upon which
appeared the likeness of a young wo-
man, above which were the words:
Flour of the Family" and below, the
name and address of the milling COM
pany. A young woman claiming to
be the original of the portrait brought
suit against both the maker and user
of the advertising matter, claiming that
she had been greatly Inundated by the
SCOTS and jeers of persons who had
recognized her face and picture on the
advertisement, and that She had been
made sick and had been put to the ex-
pense of employing a physician, by
reason of which she had suffered dam
age She prayed to be compensated
in damages and for an injunction re-
straining the further circulation of the
picture.
Her complaint contained none of the
usual averments of an action for libel,
namely, malicious or false publica-
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BY Charles M. Pepper


thority. Efforts have been made to
restore them, but Cuban public senti-
ment says mo"
Yet they have politicians in Cuba
who are selfish, thinking only of them
selves, and caring little for the public
good. The same is true Of the United
States. On the whole there is as much
patriotism among the Cuban public
men as among our own.
The Cuban congress Is formed al
most exactly after the model of the
congress of the United States. It has
about the same powers. There is a
house of representatives and senate.
No law can be enacted without the
sanction of both bodies. Some propo-
sitions which, to us seem very foolish,
have been introduced in the Cuban
congress, but simply introducing them
does not make them laws.
The chief drawback is the lack of ex-
perience. 1t debates a great deal and
many fine speeches are made, but fine
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american Trade G)hh Canada

In the last fiscal year the Canadian
rate of duty upon the total importa-
tons from the United States was IL
5-1O0 per cent, and the rate upon du-
table imports from the United States
was "a 83-100 per cent, while the du-
ties imposed by the United States
upon total entries was, in round num-
bers rs per cent and upon dutiable
imports SO per cent. Under these un-
equal conditions the American exports
to Canada have risen from $28,572,866
in 1866 to $119,306,000 in 1901, while
the exports of Canada to the United
States have risen from $44,143,000 in
1866 to $72,3S2,OO0 in 1901. The exports,
however, to the United States in the
last year included $2S,331,000 of coin,
bullion, gold nuggets, etc., leaving
net export to the United States, de-
Quoting precious metals, of $44,051,000
or less than in the year 1866. This
statement shows that while the ex-
ports of Canada to the United
States have practically remained sta
tionary, the imports from that country
have, during the same period, increas-
ed 31S per cent.
A very striking illustration of the
character of trade movements between
the two countries during the period
since 1866 is furnished by the state
ment of trade in farm products. In
1866 the exports of farm products from
Canada to the United States exceeded
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soldiers of lower and more depraved,
class, and by such a novice in the art
of drinking may not rarely be assailed
with ridicule and contempt. Such men,
now fortunately few in our army, are
largely responsible for the idea which
occasionally obtains among recruits,
that a physical tolerance of alcohol is
an essential attribute of the soldier and
that only he that is able to imbibe his
share of intoxicant without apparent
effect has demonstrated his fitness to
enter upon the profession of arms.
Some few soldiers undoubtedly acquire
the habit Of taking alcoholic stimulants
largely as a result of favorable oppor-
tunity, particularly if they are men
without aim or purpose in life beyond
the perfunctory accomplishment of
routine duties-men who are possessed
of no internal resources for their
amusement and to whom the normal
existence is burdensome, dull and mo-
notonous. A still smaller class of SOL
diers appear to be markedly Influenced
by atmospheric conditions, with re-
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By Gibridge {. Tdams

or which tends to expose the person SO
caricatured to public hatred, ridicule or
contempt
"a violation Of this section shall be
misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a
fine of not less than one hundred dollars,
nor more than five hundred dollars, or by
Imprisonment in the county jail for not
less than one month nor more than six
months, or by both such fine and imprison
ment.
'All persons concerned In said publica-
ton, either as owner or manager, editor,
publisher or engraver, are each liable for
said publication. Actions for the viola
ton of this section shall be tried in the
county where such newspaper, handbll,
poster, book or serial publication, or sup
plement is printed or has it's publication
office, or in the county where the person
whose portrait or caricature is published
resides at the time Of the alleged publica-
tion."
The second section requires that ev-
cry article statement or editorial con-
tanned in any newspaper or other print
ed publication, published In California,
which tends to blacken the memory
of one who is dead, or to impeach the
honesty, integrity, virtue or reputa-
ton, or to publish the natural or al
legged defects, Of one who is alive, ana
thereby expose him or her to public
contempt, hatred, or ridicule, must be
supplemented by the true name Of the
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in the farewell address which they
made to him-showed their own deep
esteem. Some of these neighbors went
to Havana for the one purpose of see
ing him inaugurated.
President Palma so far has shown
his firmness and his purity of charac-
ter. His aspiration is for Cuban re-
public which shall be like the Amert-
can republic. A scheme was formed
to restore the lottery, which had -four
ished under the Spanish rule and which
is found in all Spanish American coun-
tries. 1t became known that President
Palma was infexibly opposed to this
scheme, and would veto it If bill
should be passed by the Cuban con-
gress. Knowing the feeling Of the
president, the promoters of the lottery
scheme have not been able to make
Roadway.
The brutal bull fights, which were
common under Spanish rule, were abol-
ished by the American military au-
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pared with younger men, among whom
the use of intoxicants more frequently
occurs in the nature Of periodical ex-
cesses, requiring medical treatment.
Acute alcoholism not rarely termin-
ates life, and even at as recent a period
as the decade 1865 it stood sixth in
order of Importance in determining the
mortality among the white troops Of
the United States army. The proportion
Of discharges and constant non-effi-
cheney from this cause is, however,
low.
The rates for alcoholism in our SER
vice have steadily decreased in the
past fifteen years., this having been
accomplished through greater care in
the selection of recruits, a growing sem
timent in favor Of temperance in the
social class from which the soldier Is
drawn, greater effort on the part of au-
thorities for the early elimination of
inebriates from the military service,
and, finally, and of the most import
ance, from the establishment of CAM
teens.
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ton, and defamation of character or
reputation: nor did it allege that the
picture had been obtained through
breach of contract. The relief sought
was grounded solely upon the propo-
sition that the circulation of the ad-
vertisement, without the complaint
ants consent, constituted an invasion
of her right Of privacy.
In reaching the conclusion that her
complaint stated no cause Of action
known to the law, the court observed:
while most persons would much pre-
fer to have a good likeness Of themselves
appear in responsible periodical or lead
ing newspaper rather than upon an adj
vertising card or sheet the doctrine which
the courts are asked to create for this
case would apply as well to the one pub
LEGATION as to the other; for the principle
which court of equity is asked to assert
in support of recovery in this action Is,
that the right of privacy exists and is
enforcible in equity, and that the publica-
ton of that which purportS to be the por-
trait of another person, even If obtained
upon the street by an impairment individ-
uual with a camera, will be restrained in
equity on the ground that an individual
has right to prevent his features from
becoming known to those outside of his
circle of friends and acquaintance. If
such principle be Incorporated into the
body of the law through the instrumental
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greater than from all the rest Of the
world. We give to the United States.
exclusive of coin and bullion, total
free list Of over $53,000,000. We re-
ceive from the United States in return
a free list, covering nickel matte, pulp
wood, saw logs, and few minor ar
ticles, which Canada would prefer re-
tanning and manipulating within her
own borders.
The question which will confront the
American statesman in the future,
when celebrating as to the conditions
that should be applied to trade with
Canada, will be a serious one. The ex-
listing conditions Of trade between the
two countries the great mass Of Cana
dams thoroughly believe to be essen
TALLY unfair as relates to their own in
terests, and the feeling is becoming
well-nfght universal that unless the
United States will extend to Canada
degree of liberality in commercial af-
fairs somewhat approaching the char
acter Of the Canadian policy toward
the United States, Canada will be driv-
en- to the adoption of a policy express
ly designed, as it is believed was the
case with the policy Of the United
States toward Canada. to decrease the
volume of imports from that country,
and If the United States desires to re-
tain the hold upon the Canadian mark
ct that it at present possesses, and to
share in the advantages that will come
from the approaching development of
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caricaturing citizen of that state, it
could not prevent Boston and Chicago
papers from lampooning him as much
as they chose.
The state of California, however,
which is quite as progressive in the
science Of law making as any state in
the union, has succeeded in getting up
on it's statute books law which is
designed to prevent the unauthorized
publication both Of portraits and Carl
catures. The law which was enacted
in 1929, as an extension Of the law
of criminal libel, may be reproduced
here because of it's novelty. 1t is as
follows:
cit shall be unlawful to publish in any
newspaper handful, poster, book, or serial
publication, or supplement thereto, the
portrait of any living person, resident
of California. other than that of a person
holding public office in this state, with
out the written consent of such person
first had and obtained; provided, that it
shall be lawful to publish the portrait of
a person convicted of crime. 1t shall
likewise be unlawful to publish in any
newspaper, handful, poster, book or serial
publication or supplement thereto, any
caricature Of any person residing in this
state, which. caricature will-in any manner
reflect upon the honor, integrity, manhood,
virtue, reputation or business or politi-
cal motives of the person so carcatured
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6OM the Republic Of Cuba Jurpipe!

hands out of work there would be riots
and disorder, which might threaten
the government itself and cause the
United States to intervene a second
time. That fear is past The people,
in spite of their distress, have kept
peaceful and patient Hard times are
still ahead of them, yet the worst has
been endured. In the fall there is
bound to be some work in the sugar
cane industry, because the plantations
must be kept going, even at a loss.
But there is hope now that this sea-
son the crop will not be a loss. Under
the pressure of public opinion, this
American congress is almost sure to
grant the lower rates of duties for
Cuban sugar and other products, which,
it refused in the spring. Then, also
the results Of the Brussels Internation-
al Conference, which agreed to doing
away with the heavy bounties paid by
European countries for the production
of beet root, within another year will
begin to benefit Cuba. Like all cane
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speeches in themselves do not keep
the wheels Of government in motion,
or insure the enactment of measures
beneficial to the public. But this lack
of experience on the part of the Cuban
congress is in a fair way to be cured,
in the only way that is possible, which
is by the actual exercise of the legis-
lative function. Experience can only
come from practice, and the Cuban
congress is having a chance to prac-
tice.
From the above statements it may
be gathered that my own opinion leans
to the belief that the Cuban republic
will survive. certainly believe it
will survive long enough to satisfy the
mass of the Cuban people in their as
pirations for independence.
There are some factions for the flu
ture which are yet to be taken into
account. The leaven of Americanism
is going to help the Cuban people, be-
cause sturdy American element will
find opportunities in the island.
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~ . AS one the right to pass
through this world, If he
wills, without having his
y picture published, his bust
ness enterprises discussed,
his successful experiments written up
for the benefit of others, or his eccen-
tricities commented upon either in
handbills,- circulars catalogues, period
icals or newspapers? This was the in
teresting question which recently came
before the New York Court Of Appeals.
The decision. by closely divided
court, that, in the existing state of the
law, there is no such right, as a legal
and actionable right, has, curiously
enough, received the disapproval of
many newspapers, which, if a con-
trary conclusion had been reached,
would be liable to some one for nearly
every issue published. 1t has likewise
excited some surprise in the minds of
many persons who had thought that
equity is nothing more nor less than
the power possessed by judges, and
even the duty resting upon them, to
decide every case according to high
standard of morality and abstract right.
In view of the widespread interest
which the case has attracted, 1T may
be worth while to examine the grounds
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It's abolition is met by precisely the
same statements that were made In
England and in New England and
everywhere else in the world The rep
etition of history is fairly startling to
the student of industrial conditions.
Louisiana, Tennessee and kentucky
have enacted laws forbidding 1t; and
the recent Democratic state convention
Of South Carolina has asked that the
legislature enact such a law. How
much it is needed in the Carolinas.
Georgia and Alabama may be seen by
a conservative estimate that more than
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BY PROT. CARROT.
The Governments Forecastsr-in Chief

This is by no means to say that all
weather changes on the earth are at
tributable to the sun, but merely that
way very powerfully to influence CHI
matte conditions. There seems to be
no doubt Of the fact that hurricanes
and other violent meteorological phe-
nomena on the earth coincide to
marked extent with fiery outbursts on
the sun. On the other hand, when nor
NAL conditions on the sun are least
disturbed, the weather on the earth is
most equable.
ence, stretching out and embracing the