The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-13
A Remarkable Document.

A Remarkable Document.
Washington. July 12-(Special)-A re-
markable document has just reached
the document rooms of the Senate and
House from the Government printing Of
fee 1t is entitled the Deadly Parallel"
on Cuban tariff reduction. and was COM
piled by Truman G. Palmer. 1t was or
dered printed during the closing days of
Congress as a Senate document.
Mr.. Palmer calls it "a parallel without
a parallen in the record of falsehood." 1t
contains extracts from the testimony of
those favorng Cuban reciprocity, COM
pared with similar extracts from the tes-
timony of those opposed to it before the
Ways and Means Committee, and hun
dreds of extracts from newspaper edit
torials and from news sources the OBJ
5ect being to show how little ground the
advocates of reciprocity had to stand on.
Mr.. Palmer does not hesitate to attack
everyone in favor of reciprocity with
Cuba and in his Introduction makes the
following reference with a people none
too scrupulous with their words, espe-
cially when their pockets are concerned,
with a Governor-General at one end of
the cable urging tariff reductions and
anxious to facilitate the early withdraw
al of his troops; with Secretary of War
at the other end of the cable animated
by the same feelings and with a misin-
formed press, the sugar trust. the great
benefactor of any tariff reduction on
Cuban raw sugar has had a marvelously
complete channel through which to fool
the people,"
An interesting comparison was made
between the letters and cablegrams from
Cuba to newspapers and commercial
organizations in the United States claim
ing there was great distress In Cuba and
the statements of witnesses before the
committee on ways and means on practi-
cally the same days to the effect that
no suffering existed in Cuba at that time.
Considerable space is given to the ex-
ploitation of the position of Senator Ell
kins on the Cuban reciprocity question as
we'll as General Grosvenor, Representa-
tive Steele, Speaker Henderson and 9TH
ers
A review of the history of the sugar in
dustry in this country follows. in an eff
fort to prove that the American Sugar
Refining Company would be the primary
beneficiary from the passage of a reCi-
procity bill. This is supported by a
great many clippings from the editorial
columns and news columns of hundreds
of newspa pers.
Following this is a digest of the testi-
mony before the ways and means COM
n1ittee for the purpose of showing that
the Cubans are not distressed and that |
the people who are asking for tariff con-
cessions are American syndicates who |
own vast sugar plantations in Cuba and |
Spaniards who still hold their allegiance |
TO Spain.
Mr.. Palmer takes up the war between |
the sugar trust and the beet sugar in |
terests of the Missouri Valley and claims |
that the sugar stock went up from 116 12 |
in January. 1902. to 1873 1-2 on March %, |
the reciprocity bill having been adopted |
by majority of the Republicans of the |
ways and means committee on March Is.
In this connection he gives hundreds |
of other clippings from newspapers re-
lating to the war on the beet sugar by |
the cane sugar refining interests. TIE |
purpose for which this compilation was
made and printed is not apparent at pres
cnt the bill having been defeated, but 1t
will doubtfully be used extensively in
support of the arguments of the OPP
ponents of that measure and will prob
ably be in evidence next winter II the
subject again comes before Congress.
Annexation Talk Brtal.
Il consider all talk of the annexation of
Cuba at the present time absolutely bru-
tai" said Representative Cooper of Wis
consin, chairman of the House Commit
tee on Insular Affairs today. Without
discussing the relative merits of the res
buttons Tor the annexation OF CUBA, III
PRODUCED by Senator Elkins and Repre-
sentative Newlands. Mr. Cooper announc-
ed that he was unqualihedly opposed to
the agitation of this question at the pres
ent time.
I'VE have launched Cuba as a new re-
public among the nations of the world"
he said, and 1t certainly would not he
in keeping with our pledges to her and to
the word--certainly not within the spirit,
If within the letter of these promises-if,
before her government had been given
an opportunity to demonstrate what it
could do. we should inauglrate a move
ment for annexation. No doubt many
wealthy Americans having large financial
interests in Cuba, as well as the wealth.
Ter classes there. would prefer annexation
to A Cuban republic. but | consider it
brutal to undertake to force annexation
,non the island, which. l believe, is the
object Of those who favor annexation at
present
Il Will not say what I would do in
casa the annexation question came to a
vote in the House, hut at present / am
onnosed 10 any agitation Of the question.
because II can have but one result to
disrontent the Cuh9ns with their govern
ynAnt nv showing them the great advan-
4aqes Of commercial and political union
with the United states. The adoption of
+be Plat amendment, against which I
voted, has made Cuba dependent upon US
and we are responsible for her success.
I think therefore we should give her
commercial advantages by means Of