The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
A TRUST WITHIN ITa
THAT PROPOSED ISLE OF PNEs
 TREATY.
"Savoyardv Discusses the Possibilities of the Proposition as Related to the Tobacco Tnterest--H0w
 There May Be Trouble nvSxs

| Ghe VOU0CCO EUlGFGEt--nDW There May Be Trouble l Over It.
 l Some twenty years ago one day | sat in the gallery of the United States senate, when that august body was considering bills unobjected to on the | calendar. At that time an old fell
 Senator Rm 0 ire from rNe Nebrassa m m and his col
 son. seasIs both G Republicans. van wyck what was later the Popuiist party and
 late Zeb Vance used to describe him by 1 relating an ancedote of North Car
 olina mountaineer. known as Uncle
 the elephant had more shag leather
 essary. Any one who eyer saw old
 Van Wvck and took look at his l plants could see the humor in Vaace's as rate and the word aggressive was l written all over his strong and rugged features.
 | clerk reported a bill on the calendar l that had been introduced by Mander- son. referred to Mandersons commit | to the Senate with a favorable rec l ommendation. When the clerk report ed the bill old Van rose and said some biii can m pass the Senate today. I ask that it be laid aside until can look over 1t. suspect there is a little rail- road hid away in its verbiage." And | it was so ordered.
 If the scrutiny is rigid enough I sus- pect a tobacco trust. not very little. ology of the Isle of Pines treaty that is now pending before the United states Senate. and reported favorably tions Committee. The Isle of Pines is as much d part of the public domain as the Territory, of Arizona or New to Cuba. That is something that cam not be done that way. It takes an act of Congress to sell American soil. with glorious climate healing wa ters, bounteous soil ana valuable fish cries: It Is. splendid tobacco region there because, under treaty of peaee l with Spain, under the famous Platt amendment on the ofacfal map. made by declaration of the War Department the Isle of Pines is as much g posses sion of the, United States as Porto our e1iro; citizens S over N T to cnba to be har- ried and impoverished ,py unjust and eonfiscatory taxation. lying done, the great Tobecco Trust has acquired control of the tobacco lands of Cuba. and, practically, all the to- the trust. When that tobacco is inns ported into the United Sites, 1t is sub 1 ject to the tariff duty nominated in | tobacco from the Isle of Pines comes | In free. One can see at glance that | 1t is money in the Tobacco Trusts cof- l if for no other purpose than to put | the duty on tobacco from there that is levied on tobacco from Cuba Wheth- | statement of the case. or not. 1t is what a great many folks who have been down there are openly saying. minority report, and if all the Demo- crats stand by him cupa will not get
 This thing of selling land is not ex-- aetly American anyhow. l am not much of a historian, but 1t is my recol- faiied eiIsSn to 'St get all the ground we Claimed we certainly never surrendered any we got. We had the snadowiest title written by John Quincy Adams con struing the Louisiana Purchase-but we got Texas under 1t. backed up by Victorious war. Those Americans who went to the Isle of Pines under the assurance of their government | pie and the protection of our flag as entitled to the sympathy of our peo- were the heroes who fought at San 3aointo.
 And there is room for San Jacinto on the Isle of Pines if there should The The American does not love to be oppressed by taxation unless he levies 1t himself in the name of a false po- American itHieii Industries. -' when a Cuban comes nosing round tn an American community, such as the Isle of Pines taxes in unskiiifuI fashion on Ameri-- can citizens, to be collected for, and expended by. a Latin American repub- lie, you may look out Tor squalls. It is the best way in the world to make battle of San Jacinto.
 am told that Cuban officials are in tering the Cuban tariff in most inso- lent and oppressive fashion. They
 i've their peculiar way. of valuation and assessment that is little improve Duke of Lerma in the Spain Of three centuries ago. There are said to be of Pines and that of these there are over 600 fighting men. They have de- clared themselves American citizens, ia ment. " 1t would take an army of Gu should be Shed in the quarrel our to RSGRue the Roosevelt administration.
 Of course 1t is only question or time when Cuba will belong to the was nearly ripe when the Ostend Man ifesto was promulgated during the ad- ministration of Franklin Pierce. That document made James Buchanan the Democratic candidate for President in 1865 and but for the war of 1S61-65, Cuba would have been part of the Union long ago. The present chair man of the Judiciary Committee of the National House of Representatives contends that Cuba belongs to. us now. Whether it does or not the American people will be Nmighty angry. with an administration that will suffer Cuba to confiscate, under the guise of taxa ton. the goods and chattels, land and | tenements of American citizens in the Isle of Pines.
 Trust is behind this business; but | that is common talk In this town.
 Savoyard.
 Washington, D. c.