Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-11


sugar In three years Is voted
condition of the island viii b
than the first.
Santo Domingo produces sugaf
In that island when crop is to be
vested the laborers are run in and
enough to satisfy them, which is
enough, 1t is said. to satisfy thu
borer In any other place on 9
except in some sections of the
east. Porto Rico. II is claimed. u
fore cannot compete under the
posed conditions with Santo Dom
and the Porto Rican laborer who
to work for pitiful sum but who
is getting fair wage and other TIL
which he did not know before. n
give over under new competitive
dltions all that he has gained an
lapse into the old abject state. 81
In Washington today there is g'd
cation consisting of the speaker
the Porto Rican house of delega
the president OF the executive coul
and several prominent planters,
business men. This delegation ia
cial. having been appointed by an
OF the legislature of Porto Rico
the purpose OF representing and
Tending the island In connection wi
the pending tariff bill"
Guthrle's Difficult Post.
George w. Guthrie of Pittsburg
Pa. who has just been confirmed
Uncle Sans ambassador to Japa
was an original Wilson man." and
may be said that original Wilson me
are getting fair chance at preferend
under the new administration. NJ
Guthrie will go upon most difficu
mission, for the relations between thl
country and the eastern empire, Will
outwardly friendly. so far as diplc
matte matters are concerned. are no|
altogether cordial under the surfaced
Mr.. Wilson's appointee to the great
post OF Japan is new to the diplomatic
service, and the state department real|
ICES that the Pittsburgh man win need
all the resourcefulness, the tact and
ability which the president of the
United States says that his pomlnee
possesses, to enable him to thread
successfully the tangle of our Japan
ese diplomatic relations.
Democrat Of Reform School.
The country's new ambassador TO
Japan has been a lifelong Democrat
Of the reform school When he was
under thirty years OF age he was re-
tanned as an assistant counsel for the
Democratic electors in the Tilden-
Hayes controversy. Some years latep
he was candidate for mayor of Pittsl%
burgh on municipal league ticket.
The campaign was one OF reform, and
Mr. Guthrie was defeated, but in 1906
he was elected mayor of the big man
ufacturing town, and held the office
for four years.
In the year 1900 Mr.. Guthrie was
an assistant secretary of the Demo
cratic national convention, and four
years later he was delegate from the
Pittsburgh district to the national
convention at st. Louis. He has been
interested in sociological and phllan-
OF student, and more than little OF
a scholar. which, together with his
Wilson predictions, made him the
grateful choice of the administration
for a great foreign post.
Henry Breckenridge, who has been
appointed by President Wilson as as
sistant secretary of war TO succeed
General Oliver, was more of a Wilson
man than was Mr.. Guthrie, for Mr..
Breckenridge was one of the Prince
ton students who took militant part
In behalf OF Woodrow Wilson in q
certain university controversy in
which the present president OF the
United States at one time was en-
gagged.
Breckenridge of Army Family.
The new assistant secretary of
war was brought up, so to speak, in
the army. His father. Joseph C.
Breckenridge who was born in Mary
land, but who later moved to Ken.
lucky, is a major general on the re-
tired list of the United States army
This branch of the Breckenridge fam
lily remained loyal to the Union, and
early In 1862 General Breckenridge
was appointed by Lincoln as a second
lieutenant of the Second artillery.
united States regulars. He served
through the last three years of the
Civil war ard remained on the active
list of the regular army until 1903,
when he was retired as a major gen.
eral. His son, the present assistant
secretary of war, has the army post
view, and, better than most laymen,
perhaps, is fitted for the post to which
he has been appointed.
William H. Osborn of North Caro-
lima, who has becs. made commission.
er of internal revenue, also was an
original Wilson man. His home Is
Greensboro, which was the very hot
bed of trouble during the reconstruc.
ton days and which, If memory isn't
all wrong, was the scene of Albion
W. Turgee's bitter story. "A Fools
Errand," 1t is said by friendly en-
thusiasts that William H. Osborne's
fine campaigning abilities and the
whole heartedness OF his loyalty to
Woodrow Wilson did more to capture
the majority Of the Tar Heel delegates
for the Wilson cause than all the 9th.
er efforts of the Wilson men In the
whole north state combined.