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HE news that distress and disorder are impending in Cuba, and can be averted only by tariff concessions that will allow Cuba to sell her sugar crop in the United States, brings out a good many expressions of sympathy in the American press, and the sentiment seems to be pretty nearly unanimous that Cuban sugar ought to be admitted at half the regular tariff rates. President Roosevelt terms a reduction of tariff duties on Cuban imports a "vital need," and says that we are bound to such a course "by every consideration of honor and expediency." And General Leonard Wood, the military governor of Cuba, says in an article in The Independent that the failure of the Cuban sugar and tobacco industries will bring "ruin and disorder," and "it might produce a result which would necessitate another intervention; but it would destroy Cuba's confidence in us as a people and would put us in a very undesirable light before the world." Secretary Root declares that if the sugar industry fails, "we may expect that the fields will again become waste, the mills will again be dismantled, the great body of laborers will be thrown out of employment; and that poverty and starvation, disorder and anarchy will ensue; that the charities and the schools which we have been building up will find no money for their support and will be discontinued; that the sanitary precautions which have made Cuba no longer a dreaded source of pestilence, but one of the most healthy islands in the world, will of necessity be abandoned, and our Atlantic seaboard must again suffer from the injury to commerce and the maintenance of quarantines at an annual cost of many millions." These pleas are opposed by the New York Press (Rep.), a paper that stoutly resists any infringement on the protective tariff, and by some of the papers published in the cane and beet sugar-fields of Louisiana and California. The New Orleans Picayune declares that "should Cuban sugar be allowed to compete on equal terms with the domestic sugar product, a heavy blow will be struck at the sugar industry of the United States," and it goes on to say: "If that vast amount of sugar is to be precipitated upon the market of the United States, paying little or no duty, it will deal WHOLE NUMBER, 609 a most serious blow to the domestic sugar industry, while it will play enormously into the hands of the sugar trust, otherwise known as the American Sugar-Refining Company. That powerful concern will then have absolute control of the sugar market of the United States, while now it is restrained to a considerable extent by the sugar production of the United States. . . . Louisiana has lands that could furnish all the sugar required for the people of the United States if they were cultivated, and, under favorable conditions, in no distant period they will be. But everything depends upon the influence the sugar trust will be able to exert in Congress." The San Francisco Call (Rep.) takes a similar view. It says: "To expose a few of our industries to unrestricted Cuban competition while leaving other industries fully protected would be to throw the whole burden of helping Cuba upon the exposed industries alone. That would not be fair. If we are morally bound to help Cuba, the obligation rests upon the whole people and not upon a few industries. The help, therefore, should be given in the form of a subsidy, and not in the form of free trade for her principal products. "The people of the United States have freed the Cubans, and now the Cubans should be left to work out their own salvation. The plea made in their behalf is invalid, whether made as a business proposition or as a sentimental appeal. Whatever duty we owe to Cuba, our first duty is to our own people, and one of the cardinal features of the home duty is that of protecting the industries upon which our workingmen depend for a livelihood. As the President himself has said, 'that is the prime consideration of our entire economic legislation.'" The New York Press says: "If the American people on sentimental grounds think they ought to give Cuba $40,000,000 this year or every year, let them go down into the pockets of all the American people for the gift, and not into the pockets of a few interests selected for proscription and spoliation. If Governor Wood or President Roosevelt or anybody else wants Santa Claus to stuff that forty millions into Cuba's Christmas stocking, why in the name of American industries and American decency should the forty millions be filched from two or three stockings in the fireplaces of American homes? Why not from all?" Aside from the papers just quoted, however, the vast majority of the American press are as unanimously in favor of tariff concessions to Cuba, as they were in favor of free trade with Porto Rico when that matter was up in the last Congress. The sugar fields of Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the United States produce only a quarter of the sugar that this country consumes, and the papers think that the entire Cuban crop would not greatly affect the sale of our home-grown sugars. Even if it should, thinks the New York Journal of Commerce, "a duty so plain and so pressing is not to be evaded by any considerations touching the profits of the beet-sugar industry of the Northwest, the interests of the Louisiana cane-growers, or the privileges enjoyed by the sugarplanters of Hawaii. If these are to be adversely affected by cutting in two a protective duty of 100 per cent., they can not be said to be worth the cost of preserving." Señor Gonzales de Queseda, special commissioner of Cuba to this country, says in a newspaper interview: "Cuba needs help, needs it at once, now, to-day. The removal of even half the present duty on sugar would place her on a firm base; the removal of the duty would be—well, a boon, a godsend. "The present crop of sugar will be ground, yes, but what will |