PAPERS, (FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3RD APRIL.) the end of March, recommended immedi, in a special message sent to Congress at President of the United States,
ato provision for diplomatic and consular representation of the United States in Cuba, the government of which, according to instructions recently issued by the War Secretary, is to be handed over to the people on 20th May. The President has also called attention to "the new relations which have been created by the achievement of Ciban independence," and states that. these "are to be broadened by conventional pacts with the Cubans and by wise and beneficent legislation aiming to stimulate the commerce between the two countries." The New Haven "Register" says:—
more definite in regard to the nature and We regret that the President was not scope of the wise and beneficent legis-Iation aiming to stimulate the commerce between the two countries,' though greater definiteness was not, perhaps, essential in a message dealing principally with other matters about which there is no ditference of opinion. Carping at this time would be somewhat premature.
Almost the same language is employed by the New York "Times," which, however, expresses its views more omphatically _We should not have deemed it unfit ting or inopportune had the President taken occasion to state in the definite and convincing manner of which he is at times the master the nature and extent of the wise and beneficent legislation aiming to stimulate the commerce between the two countries.' Such a. statement would have strengthened that public sentiment of justice to which the congress must in the long run yield. It would have separated the administration beyond all dispute from the miserable and cruel and id plots that are being national capital in the te majority party, and with which the arty leaders appear not to be able to dea as they should. Wo are bound to infer, in the absence of more explicit utterance by Mr. Roosevelt, that he is persuaded that justice and decency, will yet prevail—in the house, in the senate, in the conference committee, somewhere at some time not too lone 'sferred—without further public pr..: ure from him.
The New York " Evenin~ Post" thinks that "the most obri¢~ " stion as to the effect of the the eeles ness of all th via machinery ut government unless something be done speedily to set Cuban industry in motion." The Chicago "Intet-Ocean" does hot se> the necessity of diplomatic representa tives in Cuba.—'It would be manifestly improper in view of atr relations with the island."
Speaking of the death of Cotil Rhodss, the New York "Tribune"
Questions of evil and good apart, the magnitude of Cecil Rhodes's mark upon the history of the age, ard, indeed, upon the immeasurable future, is beyond dispute. Not for half 4 century and more has Great Britain or any, na"ton produced a more powerful and suecessful empire builder, nor has there been that time a man. who has done more toward filling up the blank spaces upon the map of the world afd tewatd giving them their distinctive colour.
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