Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — CLEVELAND AND CUBA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVELAND AND CUBA

GROVER EXPECTS THE INSURGENTS TO LOSE. Attitude of the President in Hia Coming Message Will Be Conservative —Members of the Cabinet Are Now Very Busy Preparing Their Reports Capital City Chat. Washington correspondence:

THE members of the Cabinet are now very busy on their annual reports. .Mr. Adee, / the Second Assist- ' ant Secretary of State, who has 1 written the foreign f affairs portion of I the P r e s i d ent’s F*. message for a genPjjj erution, lias been buried for several •'i days in his room "V" building the fouujjrs dation for the rlfl President to erect [, a foreign poll cy. It is his annual duty to furuish a

brief, reciting events of importance that hare occurred in the civilized world since the last message to Congress was written and such facts relating thereto as may interest the President. It is understood that the message will be particularly strong'on the Monroe doctrine and conservative on Cuba, notwithstanding the opinions and predictions of the Hon. Don M. Dickinson. I have it straight that the President doesn’t expect the Cuban revolution to survive the winter. lie thinks it will be crushed out as soon as the weather will permit an active campaign by the Spanish army. Secretary Carlisle’s report, at the time this is written, has not been begun, although several bureau officers of the treasury are preparing material for it. The first copy of Secretary Morton’s roport is finished and is being revised. It will be longer than usuul, and packed with information of interest and value to farmers, live-stock growers, packers, fruit men, nnd particularly to those who are seeking foreign murkots for agricultural products. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will show that the total consumption of beer in the United States for the last fiscal year, ended June 30, was 33,400,001 barrels, which was an increase of 191,000 barrels over the consumption of 1804, but a decrease of 353,211 barrels from the consumption of 1593. Therefore, it would appear that hard times have something to do with beer drinking. A barrel of beer in brewers’ measure contains 31% gallons. The people of the United Stntcs, therefore, drank 1,045,020,000 gallons of beer lust year. The largest consumption of beer in the United States was in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin. The total sales in the city of Milwaukee alone were 2,000,000 barrels, or about one-sixteenth of the whole. Kansas is credited with only 0,000 barrels of beer. The report of the Secretary of the navy will be of unusual interest this year for the reason that it will contain a sort of review of the work of rebuilding the •American marine, which has now been practically completed upon the plans that were adopted at the end of the Arthur administration and the beginning of the Cleveland administration ten years ago. England Must Fight. It is the unanimous opinion among diplomats hero that England must fight or lose her foothold in the East, and that ever since the close of the Japanese war she has been seeking a pretext for descending upon China to counteract the success of Russia and restore her own prestige. It is believed to be the intention of Great Britain, sooner or later, to occupy Nanking, just as she seized and held Hong Kong forty years ago. Nanking is the greatest city in the interior of China and commands the commerce of the Yang ’tze, which is the greatest river and furnishes transportation for the most productive nnd prosperous portion of the empire. And ns soon as Russia takes possession of Manchuria, the northern province, and starts her railroad down the Liao-Tung Peninsula, John Bull will find an excuse to occupy Nanking and organize a provisional government of his own there, supported by a British fleet. It matters not what the pretext may be, England will demnnd exactions which the Chinese Government cannot comply with, and nothing but the combined powers of Europe can compel her to loosen her foothold when it is once obtained. Commercial disaster threatens England both in Japan and China. Those countries have been the largest and most profitable markets for British manufacturers, but her trade is decreasing rapidly nnd before many years Japan will supply the Asiatic market with almost everything it needs. The enormous increase of cotton factories in Japan and their rapid introduction into China will soon be felt by tho manufacturers of Manchester. Since the treaty of peace between Chinn and Japnn was signed four companies, with capital of not less than $1,000,000 each, have been organized in Shanghai to construct ,cotton mills; two in Nanking, ohe in Hankow and two more at Hong Kong, which will get their raw material from America and eat a great hole into the English |trade. It is true that three-fourths of the jcapital to be invested in these mills comes from England nnd is largely furnished jby the cotton manufacturers of that country, who realize the evolution in trade and will move their mills from Englnnd to Asia ns rapidly as they can. India has practically ceased to consume British cottons and is able to furnish almost her entire supply. Japan will be in the same situation within the next two or three years and China will follow rapidly after.