Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1898, Page 11

T EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEr) SeNDAY AT THE STAR SUILDINGS, 1161 Pestssivatia Av212 titi 3h, be The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't Tew York Ofce, 49 Potter Building The Evening Star ts served to subscribers ta the city by carriers. op thelr own a-count. at 10 cente per week. o- 44 certs per montn. Coples at the Sounter 2 cents each. By mail—enywhere In the Calted States or Canada—postage prepald—S0 cents ver menth. Saturday Qcictonte Sheer Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage add 08. ern, Che Evening $3. (Entered at the Post’ Oitice at Washington. D. ©.. as second-cia + mall matter.) EF AN mail aubecriptions mast be pat! In advance. Rates of edvertising made known om application. WA a SSS SS Mutual “Thanksgivings” For This Great N; D. C sy SHINGTO “ne Wan. Hahn & Co.” onze | HE so PROBLEM Many Communications Received on the Subject. z s So z SHOE BU SINESS : PROP. MILLERS LETTER DISCUSSED $ ° By —— — + HOE buyers are thankful because we protect them from the 3 His Position Attacked by Several 5 exorbitantly high prices on the one hand and the low price ¥ & A “trash” on the other. + People. = We are also thankful for your liberal patronage and are = showing our gratitude by running a special “Thanksgiving Shoe SOUTHERNLA WLESSNESS 2 Sale” all this week. $ 5 3 bs ° ° ° : ¢ Special Prices for Evening footwear. $] sw i punteaton of prot ames < communi ta n The $ E receive a 2 Ladies” and Misses’ White and Black Ladies’ very stylish All French Patent eee ee ne ae Ue ce or % © «Kid and Paten with and Leather and t Kid Sandals and Ox- etters bearing upon the subject of : F is. a m or Lonis XV heels. ‘0 problem in the south. So = Poe : 87c aes Shree Joe Roi nin d to th SY nksgiving price... ° Vhauksgiving price ° Prof. = Ladies’ Nobby One and Two-strap Finest Men's Full Dress wed Nobby ‘Prof. M B k Vici Kid with bE neh ent alf, and Buttou * allowed academic culations to u = seca : 1.45 toon stg Sa ee wally even mind. Should the 4 - ne 5 as ce 2 £ his conduct to Avice p : Thanksgiving price. ° Thanksgiving price. c ¥ he woul z Thanksgiving Prices on | Thanksgiving Prices on $ Ladies’ Shoes. Plen’s Shoes. ¥ tere nod quality Kid < Triple-sale Wi onaoden ane mt, but flexi Black “Bor alt Lace Shoes extension 3 oper ent tip. and ph edge, wide back stays, styles copied from 2 not 8 $1.50 ex the best $3 shoes. 5 ting for im- Fhaakies . $1 67 og mense qu 5 nanksgiving price. ° 3 Th Pee 5 Bie € thfully with Thanksgiving price 9 ° scl, Dont Saisde anit ciel \daome si « Ladies’ fines ci Kid Rid fiand ade Li and let 510 of pol eee es es es ee of Men's fest Am. Calf Hand-made Bull eat found ated fancy vesting Shoes, best $3 construction the n » did not 4 hers ue F 2 3 t desire to dominate ‘or co; 1 87 giving price. ° control which ke did ice: ° ted Polic Let Lots Ladies’ Fine ter Carriers. Mi jand-se Boots, square to severe wer = $3 shoes. nes, ronnd or . Cannot be du- Thankseiving price P2oNO peas lanksgiving ie: vy aera. : > 05 Thanksgiving price. ° Lots Best $4 Hand- = iS | sewed Welt Li on Boots, with 6 of the nobb les of Calf-lined pr ish English toe, patent tp and Winter Russets, Bi fei Kid and Rox hygienic enshion inner scle. Calf Shoes you ever saw at $5. go this $4 value week at price. 99-15 price. 93.35 M. HAHN & CO.’S ELIABLE SHOE HOUSES, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving z 4 e4 a COR. TTH & F STS. 1914-1916 PA. AVE. 233 PA. AVE. 8.E. Dee n= with him ia pre ment whi The want of pol 1 relatir shown in the attempt >» canfeun with the “an no more under al! other c his arily upon right to a v in management of the governm of & of men in the United States the 3 least to accept political ment; . should he passively would deserve to b: ita * SastectectactoetoetecPeateateateats SnePvePeePosPecPoaPosPoaoaPoatostoats ’ Lockets he would be, for ie ae ie te ac ae a i ee ae te ac ee ae ever fram e al equation. = = = = mane “The right is designed to af- ES ei a Se ~~ | ford the equa on of the law, and FREERIDE Wednesday, November 16, 1898. ‘ Suits, 7" BARRA the ne ors. n dof Who has ly. ortune lie is or may be di rivilege of holding p that he does not enje and the equal s is true in pro- ffrage has be en silenced, us Class legis To-personal-measure. sislation w is intended to erush hi manhoor lesse opp > the for existence. In )| that he is cut off in his polfti » caste laws increase in ee eta. his lot becomes more intolerable, while, on =% a aa MLL ESO ERLE /} the other hand, he enjoys gr Did you read the story yesteri, We did not expect to sell tion and g opportuniti 2 é 2 > )} ment and expansion in those communit all these suitings in one day; we have enough to last the week out. where he has weight politica! factor. \ They are fourteen styles of the faacy mixtures—each as stylish as ) Nyuere bis seen a the r then here's the black and blue cheviot, always desirable and dependable. We take your personal measure, make you a suit of your ice of these fresh received novelties for $Q 28 ause these suits are made at half the price of the ordi- nary tailor is no reason why they do not get the same care, the same cut, the same fit, the same finish that stamps the Mertz method at any price. They are worthy in every detail. Remember, the sale ends Saturday. i che e sult must fit O.K | Tlertz and Plertz, Tailoring Headquarters, or we keep it. ordinary administration of w he is compelled te hat his ul masters > be re 1 whatey vay from 5 By dint o patien economy, he may acquire p ecumulate wealth, but env j the fires of hatred can banish hi )| these and cast him out upon th pauper and a vagabond and the Is him no redress. ‘The negro must deman¢ | lar al freedom. To do otherw: is w to the scorn lightenment. nd would justly subject him and contempt of manly en- The Question of Average. “Inauir: sas follows: )| “If Prof. Kelley Miller will pardon 2 >| humble man for doing he would like to express himself as not fully about one 7 aph of his exceile: scho tion of a vexing p of The St ’ | would doubules: ~ 906 F Stree €. for the negro the ‘semi-civiliz OO memes | Ue eyes cried ae {t with in- acdeee a | Ber’ (one Sa a a ee a SE SS ao tieecoesentonseesoeoasoareaterleetentoateatoale upon himself, but s from others Americans wil “Credit is Free Here. McCe recut Will Meet ou At The Door. Our bid for your patronage is based upon the claim that we offer you more inducements in buying and easier terms in paying than any other house in the city. Credit prices here are no higher than cash prices elsewhere. We GIVE you the privilege of paying a little each week or each month, without notes or interest. Carpets, Heating and Cooking Stoves, Parlor Suites, Lace Curtains and Portieres are among the most pressin needs in a home at this time of year. You'll find all these— and all other furmshings in our store. We have variety, qual- ity and rock bottom prices. Nota penny is added if you want credit. met esetonteey eet te All Carpets are made, Ined and laid free—no charge for the waste in matchlag figures. Brussels prices begin at 50 cents « yard and Ingrains st 30 cents. Mammoth redit House, Grogan’s 817-819-821-823 7th St. N.W. Between H and I Streets. nole-T5d rope looks upon Am civilizer opinions | coubt x | law of j re udy | thirt tion 4 d two hi in se eceesectontonsense ch to operate in Amé | writer would like to ask if, in ar- | this 4 utus,’ the arit ' $s ing the sum tot: =) ons used? If so + | n that, including ; the ignorance: indoien mong whites of the tet nd the 1 %$ | by them from licen S$ parentage, together & | with lee a dation among the ref? san population in the north and west, certain that he could figure by the pre mentioned an ‘average status’ for the white man above that of these negroes whose phenomenal rise in one generation has refuted all past and present day theories?” Plea for Colonization. W. H. Pritchett discusses the question in the following manner: “I have read with much interest the arti- cle in the issue of The Star of the 14th instant entided “The Negro Question,’ and, while there is a large pe ge of irony in the very scholarly articic of Mr. Miller, there is also much good advice to the colored race, as wel a very sensible fact stated when he says, ‘We have ap- parently reached the limit of human wis- dom.’ I would say in reference to Mr. Waterson’s sentiment, if there s less ‘speculating’ and more ‘praying’ in re- spect to the negro’s place in human society there would be better results, in reference to which a plain statement of a few cold facts may not at this present time be out of place. “Before petition is made to any one for assistance to avert an existing calamity, resulting from former conditions, it is just and right that we should ascertain why the former conditions existed, and if they have been unjustly of our making. We should make restitution as far as possible of our own selves, and if a way had ever POE EE RE EEE SLEEPOOSS s Not Up to Required Speed. The report from the trial board at San Francisco on the recent rial of the torpedo peat Farragut shows. that she fell the frac- tion of @ kmot below the speed of thirty knots required. The ed that the boat be accepted on the reco: by the contract to refuse, either must be rejected or contractors have ask- made, but the department finds itself bound So that the boat on anot! she must make the thirty knots rewired * been provided for such restitution, as well as tf we had neglected or refused to fol- low tnis way, until we had canceled every obligation incurred in the transaction. “Here is the precise vronosition we need rd races. Pas Siwaiscasslag thie subject we ahoulg in. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER { to investigate in relation to the white-and [-policy to yield to la qu ion of the n gro existed in the United States, viz., that of n Divine Providence there are three modes of action: First, what is procured; second, what is permitted; third, what Is prevented. We cannot believe that the Divine Betng in His providence procured the slavery of such portion of the African race came to Ameri@a for this feature the problem are new dealing with, nor 1 He prevent it; therefore, He must have y permitted it. And as He being wisdom an@ goodness, it must ermitted by Him for good and What were these good wise pur; Christianjzation, evident and with it all the advantages’ which attached to Christianity, ‘But why permit them to be brought here? 4s not the lan the New Testament, ‘Go ye, but the white race can only ii ome parts of Africa, and the parts of continent where they cannot live are ones from which the slaves came country. “By these very people, most capable of en- e purpose: during the climate of Africa, when Chris- tianized and educated, m portion of Africa be redeemed from barbarism and idols Hence the American Colonizz Society. Hence the procuring by t ty of a tract of land in Afrlea fc ing such pei of African a from the Uniter States as education and some refinement had brought to see the hopelessness of their political condition in ngland and France had been trying to in a station at Cape Mesurado for a hundred y or more without succe The negro 1 the h of the early settlers in Liberia, of the great strug- gle the: in an existence, in a. little “The New Republi published by the American Protestant 4 sociation, and t will be more in sym- pathy with thi ine plan for am ing the cv n of their and giving to them in the land of their adoption the political privileges which it seems impossi- ble for them to have in the land of their birth. This is the only solution of the ne- gro problem. Have we neglected or refused to walk in it? Did not the Congress of the United St kick the petition of the American Colonization Séciety out of its halls of legislation when the society i for aid to carry out its pl The north said: ‘This is an effort of the south to get rid of their old and worn out Slaves,’ and the south dec 1 it to be a project of the them of their property. north to di Then God arese and rescued the slave from their masters by slaying young m north and south, until blood ive times nd rees taxed to slave in the country the African continent tran on to the i with six months’ provision for every living soul of them. “treasure, by en- “By this blood, by th anchisement, by educatic the white anceled every obligation incur- i will go no further. They will not be ruled by the negro, nor can the ne- gro ever hope for social cguality with the white race. He is free to go; he is free to tay; yet in the W of Mr. Miller it may truly, said: ‘The problem will “take on added difficulties,” nor will the gro find a Way out of tiese difficulties until his face is turned toward African -olonization as the Canaan of his deliver- ce from what will al 2 to him more s, Egyptian bondage. A Nexzro Apologist. W. Calvin Chase writes: The letter of Mr. Miller of Howard University that ppeared in a recent issue of The Star was than the sentiment of a Such colored men as Mr. - great impediment to nt. His defense of the ble outrageg in North an or les Carolina against the negro would not have , surprise had it been made by an ant colored man. FP wenld have Jm- | puted it to his ignorance. Mr. Miller is or of mathematics In Howard Uni- who has ver echoed a single thought of his own, beeause he lacks man- hocd. He belongs to the new school of this i ch has been in- advent of th der- of the condition of ro in the Instead of teaching o-a line of physical defense, he is amely submit to any and all indig- be irnposed upon them. told to nities t = I desire » this occasion to compli- ment you itor, for yeur timely and manly editorial in a recent issue of your paper st the recent southern out- rage: is too precious to make any lengthy reply to this negro apologist. Lawlessness in the South. O. Price has the Ing to » allow me space in your cohimns for a few remarks on the de ra tii awh ath. Saree wth and South ¥ s nets recently com- these states are a disgrace to stain on the United jorth Carolina the and a bl. vernment In mocrats patrol the streets of Wilmington walking arsenals, and in broad 4: ht k into a man’s house, throw his goods nd set fire to his property. this mob is now mayor of But this is not all; the demo- » forced the mayor, chief of po- Is to resign their offic hey have al unished bre other citizens, most of whom are colored. Further they stop colored people on the t and search them. If a man re- to halt when these demecratic guar command him to they shoot him like a dog. ov. Russell of North Carolina has al- lowed this to go on, Perhaps the governor was afraid. He should have been man enough to do his duty and ought to be im- hed for not fulfilling it. he democrats have now gotten all they vanted, mostly by intimidating the repub- in party. Now, after having carried ir lawless acts to sugh an extent that think the President - will intervene, igs are quieting. orth Caroli 5 mpa- s g0 out especially to th d peo- ple, inst whom most of the lawless acts are committed. Two months ago the negroes of North Caroli na could not purchase as much as a cartridge, because the democrats would in- tercept them, Tuking advantage of the sit- uation, the democrats, after arming them- selves, attacked the defen negroes and white republicans. This showed cow- ardice. Had the republicans been armed the democrats would never have troubled them. Whenever a southern democrat is insulted he will not settle with the offender like a man, but will get a mob and attack him. Their policy is, usually, armed mobs against defenseless individuats. ‘The Negro Domination Cry. Mr. Lewis H. Douglass thus writes: If it could be shown that the exercise of the elective franchise by the colored man the real cause of the innuman treatment accorded him throughout the south one might be able to concede: the position taken by Kelley -diller as furnishing food for re- ft Nothing can be more nonsensical than the villainous ery of “negro domina- tion.” Nothing can He more true than that savage, brutal and murderous instincts need only the slightest excuse for gratify- ing their wicked and crue! impulses. Today in the south the excuse is negro franchise. Yesterday it was negro schools and school teachers, In the days of the killing of teachers of colored schools in the south the claim was, as now, that white su- premacy and Anglo-Saxon civilization de- manded that the negro be kept in his place, and the civilizing influences of arson and murder were drawn on by the Anglo-Saxon promoters of civilization te enforce the de- mand of the hour. In those days the poin. of “least resistance” would have been the abandonment of the education of the negro. It is needless to say that.fyd such abandon- meng taken place we w at this time be struggling along withoyt:the peculiar phil- cecpby of my erudite ¥ a, Prof. Kelley jer. Following my old-fashioned bringing up, 1 would say that acquiegeing in the wrong does not tend to the pi mn of the right. I therefore think i wonld be a mistaken and disorder ‘Tights justly guaranteedby the funda- mental law of the land; _ 16 1898—FOURTEEN TARIFF AND TAXATION Mr. Robert P. Porter’s Report to the Secretary of the Treasury. RESULT OF EXHAUSTIVEINVESTIGATION A Reduction of Customs Duties is Recommended. THE CURRENCY QUESTION Robert P. Porter, special commissioner for the United States to Cuba and Porto Rico, has presented his report to the Presi- dent and Secret the Treas The report goes fully into the financial and econom 1 condition of Cuba, analyzing the budget of that island for fourteen years, showing the sou of and the ci s of expenditure. Mr. Porter examine Stav and Cuba, son 5) witnesses, all of whose testimony is published dix to the report. Mr. Porter mitted for the approval of the Sec the Treasury a complete revis Cuban tariff in the form of a which will be examined by the the Treasury Department, and if approved will be promulgated by the President and take effect at the port of Cienfuegos Decem- ber 1, that being, in all probability, the first important port to come into the po ion of the United t In the con- income both in the United of new the bill of ion, ideration of the Cu t became apparent that the most pre: reed of the land was a tariff that wou! r light- st in the directions je could st afford the on d st on commodities which the do and the ‘ommissioner Porter s: Spanish tariff was made for Spain, in the Proposed New Tariff. The tariff proposed, and the adoption of which by the United States when the mili- tary forces take hold of the custom houses reduces all duties about 60 per cent on the old Spanish rates, and wiil average fully two-thirds 1 than the rates now exacted by the authorities in Cuban ports in pos- session of Spain. The report contains an analysis eussion of the Cu and dis- an budget, in which the effect of the new tariff on the revenue of the country, together with the other sources of revenue, are explained and dis- cussed. To the question, with such a large reduction of duties, how it is possible to secure revenue for the purpose of adminis- tering the government of the island, the report says: “There are several answers to this ques- tion, and the facts bearjng on the are given in full, Dhe/genera that by reason of fraudulent cl nd smuggi A from the people of Cuba nv way into the treasury, of that Spain. ‘The cupidity and rapa Spanish oMleial In Cuna 1 tion, ific r tion &, Most of the revenue colleci er found and nor cf ity of the beyond concep- and, if we may judge by the results at Santiago, the United State als will be able to collect as much revenue on a ariff the duties of which are more than a half or nearly two-thirds less than under the iniquitous > Ww now e. duction to a reasonable of certain sehedut. tho: pachinery, supplies, e ° the importation, and the nly be perigd when the greater thi duties have be . A railway company natura’? 1 to import a locomotive when the du equi t to the value of the engin th a revised tariff of Cuba has no locomotive port two, four or ev true of a variety of ot cases where there are home Cuba capable of supplyi product by home isbor ca . either by making free t al. or not making fon of duty, n dur not to pects. In so doing it is the policy which has be dev ping the ned i the Un States and for its labor. «1 employr Average Custom House Reccipts. Below is given a table showing the aver- celpts In the age annual custom house ri Island of Cuba from 1886 to 1897, inclusive, which Mr. Porter has compiled from rec- ords of the several custom houses named: Average per Year. Custom Houses. (Cents Omitted.) tan Gibara. Manzanillo Paracoa. santa ( aza Total... In an intere 45,894 ting anal of the Cuban howing how much revenue is re- nd how much may reasonably _be ed from the tar!ff to be enforced, Mr. Porter say: “The money collected from Cuba, whether it was $26,000,000 or less, has all gone, and nothing is likely to be found in the treas- ury but numerous evidences of promises to pay, records of receipts given by the government for gocds not paid for, debts of all kinds, including the salaries of a large number of the minor officials. The first and most important item of expendi- tures is for sovereignty expenses, and ag- gregates a sum exceeding $22,000,000. These expenses are subdivided as follows Interest on public debt and general ex- penses, $12,574,709; religion and clergy (state religion and justice), $329,072; war, $5,896,740; navy, $1,055,136; executive, $2,- 645,149; total, $22,500,808. “The largest item in these expenditures is that of the interest on public debt, which aggregates $10,435,183. The other items of expenses under this head seem to be of a miscellancous characier, including some salaries, pensions, civil, military and nava! pensions, public works and gratuities. The next largest expenditure is for purposes of war, $5,506,740. These items are of especial interest to American readers. The eapenses of the navy aggregate $1,055,136, and of the executive department, $2,645,149. Jast section comes the salary of the Cuban governor general, $40,000, and the expenses of his office, $46,450, aggregating $86.450. In this division, it appears, the civil guards were paid, this body of men receiving in all $2,095,221.12. The second largest item in this total is the subsidy to the Compania Transatiantica, which amounts to $471,836. A. study of these several items at once shows that the principal expenditures for the Is- land of Cuba are those which have directly or indirectly to do with the control of the island by Spain. It is impossible at this moment to make a satisfactory estimate of this new budget, nor can it very well be dene until after the United States forces are in full possession end able to secure complete data:as to the personal needs of the government of Cuba. Of course, the jargest items, such as interest on the pub- lie debt, expenditures of Spain for the pur- pose of conquering the islend,-will disap- Pear, making a reduction; if we include ‘the budget, Under the, From Kimberly to R. Harris & Co. The Evening Star is the only afternoon paper in Washington that receives the dispatches of the Associated Press. It is therefore the only one in which the reader can find the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press. No. 4. The Finish ed Product. Continuing our series, we now present to you the finished Diamond, polished exquisitely and without a flaw in any part. left Kimberly as can well would never recognize it new in its dazzlin tion. It is as different to the stone that be imagined. In fact, you g perfec- Again we cali attention to the fact—it is because we import ourseives tha undersell any house. Hence we can ¢ for We will accept small payme R. Diamond Merchants. carat Solitaire, warranted with- out flaw, in fine Tiffany t we are in a position to 2- ell this $100.00 on goods laid aside now for Xmas. HARRIS & CO., Seventh and D. civil guards, of $18,000,000 or $2,000,000. | as to the gold star: How much of this amount will be required | ence of opinion in ri ; for necessary expenses under the new or-| bility of squeezing the of things it will be impossible to fore- | these gold ccins, while others recommend, as the only y to the sttuation. liowing is a balance of the estimated | A prvitheartanes: receipts and expenditures of the budget of | In such an event oth the Island of Cuba for the year 180 | coins would ther proper saan ixpenditures. | value. Such on the part of the Sovereignty expenditures... General local expenditures. Charities, justice and government ‘Treasury ; Public instruction... - Public works and communtc: Agriculture, industry andcommerce. ripts. nd professional taxes. stom f 2 duties Internal revenue Lotteries Property eo Miscellaneous rece’ Excess... The Currency. The next most important subject rsached in the report is that in relation to the cur- rercy. Says the report: “Although Cuba is afflicted with many kinds of depreciated currenc the estab- shed basis is strictly seid, and in any commercial engag2ment the value is under- stood to be in gold unless specified tu be ecntrary. Indeed, tnere is sonietning al- most pathetic: in the manner in wii Cuba, though plundered and deplete? of her resources and wealth, bas aeyer wa- vered from a gold basis. The testimony taken and statements made on this subject have been unanimously in favor of a co tinuous gold basis, for the Cubans h: suffered so much from Spain's various tempts to force depreciat+1 currency the peopie, both in the form of silver and bank bills, that they want no further periment with the currency. The Spar silver money current in ib> islana is taken at the daily value, which is partly by the larger or smailer demand wages and necessities of the governin| to pay troops, but principaily by the c tinually fluctuating value of th> S; As thi meney in the European market. Spanish silver is legal tender in Spain f ce value, it is able to maintain a fictitious value for purpose of shipment to Europe. At the present moment, U fore, this dollar fluctuates in value with | na it the fitful changes in Spain’s er », should the United States esta lish Amer for the Island of Cul silver dollars will all b There was, when your comm in Spain, a margin of 30 per and the financial do not thin dollars would go down to veld not pay te ship the Span: silver to Spain and uti the American dollar in Cuba. In this event it will be necessary foc the United States govern- ment to ship as many silver dollars to Cui as possible, one prominent banking firm suggesting five or six millions, which, with the subsidiary coins, would be required for small payments. At Santiago the immedi- ate disappearance of Spanish dollars and minor coins has made small transactions extremely difficult. Some think that the present steck of Spanish silver in the is- land exceeds the necessities. but this ts evidently not the case in Santiago. Besides the silver there is a bank note circulation, but thet has no actual bearing on the question of currency, the trade and bus- iness of the island has refused to accept it, and the present quoted value is less than ten cents on the dollar. The greater part of this emission, which was a war issue, Was made by the Svanish government at Madrid to the Banco Espanol de la Isle de Cuba (not by that bank), and your commis- sioner finds it is largely in the hands of speculators and government contractors. The only public application is for the pay- ment In the custom house of the so-called 10 rer cent ad valorem Guty assessed on the official value of imported merchandise. in addition to the regular specific rates of duty exacted. The abolition of this duty, when the remaining Cuban ports come into possession of the United States, will be the end of the bank bills. There still remains a question as to whether the Spanish Bank of Cuba was in any way responsible for these bills, and the question will come up for fu- ture adjustment. The bank will probably deny responsibility and refer those who hold this depreciated currency to the Span- ish government at Madrid. As an interest- ing fact in this connection, the credit of the Spanish Bank in Cuba 1s of a higher order than the Spanish government, for the bank has never fatled to redeem its own paver during nearly half a century of its exist- ence as the Bank of Spain of Havana, and subsequently under its pregent name. It has at times suffered embarrassment, but ultimately its bank bills have all been re- deemed. The Gold Coins Current. “The gold coins current in Cuba are the Spanish end French coins, the bulk of which consists of 25 Spanish pesetos pieccr, so-called " which have been in- flated by royal decree to $5.30. anc the French 20-franc pieces, so-called ‘Napo- leons,’ which have aiso been given a icgal tender value of $4.24, and decreed since the end of 1893 as legai money. Whi'c the princtpal banking concerns are unanimous ‘an currency as soie legal tender that 5 the Spanish »d to these where it S: 2) people. Having thus arbitrarily puta pre- } ed tu run until som United State: government would in no way interfere with the present contracts, which are Invariably exp; das payable in Spanish gold. The premium on Spanich gold was never agreed to by the breiness | mium on Spanish gold, the same | ties later put a premium on Fren | The whole thing is entirely ar authori- » zold nl, and to continue fit, in the opinion of your com missioner, would be a mistak perusal of the testimony will show that. some j bankers think it inadvisable to introduce Paper money at this tim cer . Ame | of two h dollars. | just now going volving its v to be seric $ fictitious va and establishing once and for and | currency that will be good for a hundred cents on the dollar, no more, no less, the world over. rican dollar in A country w hrough an opera nee will not be d by teking existe Question of Taxation. Mr. Porter then takes up the question of | taxation, and suggests the abolition of « | tain taxes, especially that known | “consumption tax” | which is an exaction that greatly ing | the price of food to the people. "This Mr. Porter, “like many others | ply farmed out to private firms or corpora- the on the Killing of cattle. tions, whe missaries in its collection b come a congtant ce to Unrift and tn dustry In their respective districts. Another | tax which will fall down of its own weight | when the United control { of the island is the ‘cedula’ or head tax, hich vari $100, na few cents k and import- acc f the indivic riously enough, when not collected, becomes a r source of and annoyance than when collecte llow- ston comes for the Spanish rapacity to re- or permit to bury unhappy victim o: ire a publi child or rel. cense to marry, a transfer of re or a note ac- knowledgment. Then it is that the pett, rascals in charge of public business bea nd unless the s and back ndsome ‘gratification’ oming, the body must the marriage tion det 10 the official is forth wait interment, poned, or a t tood that both the Pre: 'y of the Treasury agree that this xation and che revenue from lot- shed. hen takes up the question of education. There free public schools } in Cuba, but the te rs have the right to | take pay schi nd naturally those who | do not pay get littie | proportion of people who are illiterat very great. statistics show on in forty of Uk ering classes able t write. There can be no stable govern- Mr. Porter s lied. Industrial Enterprise. In regard industrial enterp Mr. Porter concludes that ttle can be donc until the sanitary conditions have been im- ment in Cuba, has been reme ays, until this to proved in all the industrial centers. Not only the commercial prosperity of Cuba, but to a considerable extent that of the southern portion of the United States de- pends upon destroying the germs of yellow fever which exist in the larger towns, es- pecialiy in Havana and Matanzas, ‘and which have been the cause of epidemics of this discase which have occurred in the United States during the past century. Mr, Porter recommends that a commission of experts be appointed, some of whom shall be engineers of skill and experience, to make a sanitary survey of Havana and Ma- tanzas and report as to what shall be done to stamp out yellow fever in these cities, with careful estimates of cost. Dealing with the railway system of Cuba, the facts gathered on this subject by Commissioner Porter, he reports, point to the advisability of immediately construct- ing a trunk railway from end to end of the island, with branches extending north and south to the important cities and ports. Mr. Porter returns to Cuba this week, and will spend a week with General Wood at Santiago. He will then go to Cienfue- gos, and will be there December 1, when it is hoped the new tariff will be put in force at that place. ~ Mr. Porter's report was highly commend- ed by both the President and Secretary Gage. : ————$+-2+_____ If you want work read the want columns of The Star. ae seem ee To Use the Krag-Jorgeusen Rifle. The Secretary of War, after conference with Major Shaler of the ordnance bureau, has determined to arm the entire United States army with the Krag-Jorgensen rifie. At the outbreak of the war only the regu- lar soldiers had the small-bore rifie, and the volunteers were necessarily armed with the Springfield, except in a few cases, such as that of the Rough Riders. The armories have been running steadily ever since, turn- ing out the small-bore rifle at the rate of 9,000 per month, until the stock on hand in the hands-of the soldiers will retires, and turned into the arsenals, ©