The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-02
THE LOUISIANA VIEW OF RECIPROCITY
WHAT SENATOR FOSTER OF THE CREOLE STATE
TOLD THE SENATE WAS THE ACTUATING CAUSE
IN THE MOVEMENT TO REDUCE TARIFF ON
CUBAN SUGAR.

Senator Foster Louisiana the extended speech
against bill said among other things:
Mr.. President the with Spain largely in the interest
humanity The uerng of Cuba and the endured by that
people appealed strongly the American public that Govern
ment readily took to relieve them OF the anne and Ppes
sion OF Spain.
Immediately after the restoration OF peace when the flag OF Spain
had left that island there from this country number of long
sighted ceareaded American SPECTATORS They rich field for
They purchased extensive plantations They invested magn
cent banana and fruit while wealthy American corporations pro-
jected splendid railway system across the island
These Americans quick understand that reciprocal treaty
this Government might make with Cuba would only enhance their
but the offer inducements other
sentiment IN his contrv That law behind te war General WOOD WIS
that time the military governor Of Cuba His enlisted
and he became earnest coaduor this appeal the
mpathes and the sentiments of the American people Of
the alleged needs and distresses in Cuba
doubt the history OF this country will show syema-
tic and organized effort deceive and pe the American people and
play upon their sympates charities than this the
these Americans aided and assisted by the representatives this
Government that island Every hamlet every city community
for aid Letters and kilograms forwarded all the country
and the American press ever responsive to the noble calls of humanity
wherever found readily espoused the of what thought be
suffering Cuba
The services of the pulpit enlisted and the ministers Of the
gospel throughout the length and breadth Of this land Numbered forth
their eloquent appeal the American people the help and
distress and actual suffering and
Every agency ndustous employed to build sentiment in
this country for the relief and aid of the conditions OF that
island
when Congress assembled had been well DONE The
the pulpit all the agencies that up public
had been successful in mPessg the American people the need
OF this legislation
There appeared before Committee Ways Means
House delegations of representative Cuban and Spanard planters
merchants and representative Americans both from Cuba and this
country who related the most thrilling and heartendeng OF
Cuba's pitable and disessul condition
Not only its financial and economic conditions pictured in the
darkest coo but the people of the island represented only
absolute and need but the borders of actual starvation
boldly and unblushngly proclaimed both by the Spanish
planter and the American adventuer that unless relief furnished
without delay turmoil strife and boodshed would the
viable result.
Before that committee appeared the famous Mr. Thurber who
with parisacal hypocrisy pleaded the suffering Cuba while
the time his pockets comfortably filled with
thousand dollars of the sugar trusts money and $1,000 from
the Cuban treasury illegally taken hereom by General
Wood the military governor of the island
But Mr. President the relief furnished The House OF Rep
passed its the Senate and died in the
Committee Foreign Relations That bill reflected the will of the
lower House of Congress After full and mature consideration that bill
from the other House reflection OF the wishes and of the will
of that great body.
Senate very
and substantial differences the requirements of that bill and the pro-
visions Of the present
That bill provided first that after the by the Government
OF Cuba of immigration exclusion and contracabOr laws similar and
equally restrictive the laws of the United States those subjects
the President of the United States would be authorized negotiate
of Cuba commercial agreement wherein receipt
equivalent each the
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