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THE CUBA RE\ME\V 



A NEW MINISTER FOR CUBA 



The rumors current for the last month 

 that United States Minister John B. 

 Jackson was to be transferred from Cuba 

 to some other post were found to be true, 

 for on August 8th the State Department 

 at Washington announced that Mr. Jack- 

 son had been transferred to the Balkan 

 States and that Arthur E. Beaupre, of 

 Illinois, now minister to the Netherland, 

 had been appointed to succeed him in 

 Cuba. 



Mr. Jackson has served since 1890, when 

 he was appointed second secretary at 

 Berlin. He has been secretary at Berlin, 

 minister to Greece, Roumania and Servia, 

 minister to Greece and Montenegro, to 

 Persia and to Cuba. 



Mr. Beaupre has been in the service 

 since 1897. 



Minister Jackson is the third United 

 States representative at Havana since the 

 Cuban war, and all have been given the 

 same treatment by the home government, 

 says the Philadelphia (Pa.) Item, and that 

 he' is the only one yet who has enjoyed 

 popularity among the American colony, but 

 he has been bitterly opposed by Consul- 

 General James Linn Rodgers, who _ has 

 interested himself in opposing concessions, 

 while Mr. Jackson has refused to mix in 

 s ch affairs. 



It says further that the recall of Mr. 

 Jackson will create a great sensation, 

 coming as it does at the time of violent 

 talk of the necessity for another American 

 ■ntervention and that some Cubans and 

 their American aUies are said to have 

 maintained a junta at Washington for 

 the purpose of bringing about the recall of 

 Minister Jackson. 



WORLD S COFFEE CONSUMPTION 



The consumption of coffee throughout 

 the world, according to official compilation, 

 has increased materially in the last decade, 

 as the following table shows : 



In 1900 14,500,000 sacks 



„ 1901 15,900,000 



„ 1902 16,670,000 



„ 1903 17,000,000 



„ 1904 17,200,000 



„ 1905 17,000,000 



„ 1906 18,400,000 



„ 1907 18,500,000 



„ 1908 18,100,000 



„ 1909 19,900,000 



The estimated consumption for 1910 ex- 

 ceeds 20,000,000 sacks. It is stated that 

 the total consumption of coffee in the 

 world is to-day in excess of production. 

 There are many thriving coffee planta- 

 tions in Oriente Province. 



SECOND INTERVENTION COSTS 



In the opinion of Representative Har- 

 vey Helm, of Kentucky, chairman, and the 

 other democratic members of the Com- 

 mittee on Expenditures in the War De- 

 partment, the United States should make 

 an effort to collect the money spent to 

 maintain the army in Cuba during the 

 second intervention. His committee en- 

 tered upon an investigation on this sub- 

 ject on August 5th. 



"It seems to me," he said, "that the 

 United States is not going to ask Cuba 

 to pay for the intervention in 1907, 1908 

 and 1909, which cost this government 

 more than $6,000,000." 



yir. Helm wrote to Secretary Knox, 

 calling attention to the costs of the second 

 intervention in Cuba, and asking what 

 steps had been taken to get it back and 

 whether the executive branch of the gov- 

 ernment had any plan to prevent another 

 such expenditure in case it became neces- 

 sary to again send the United States army 

 to the island. 



In his reply Mr. Knox, secretary of 

 state, said that President Taft had no 

 present intention of asking the Cuban gov- 

 ernment to reimburse the treasury of the 

 United States. 



Mr. Knox quoted a law of Congress 

 authorizing the president to receive money 

 from the Cuban treasury in repayment for 

 the expense of the intervention when the 

 Cuban government was able to pay "with- 

 out serious embarrassment." 



"Exercising the discretion which Con- 

 gress by law invested in him," writes the 

 secretary of state, "the president has, 

 owing to the straitened financial condition 

 in which the Cuban government found it- 

 self, never heretofore considered the Cu- 

 ban treasury able to pay, without serious 

 embarrassment, amounts to reimburse the 

 United States for expenditures from the 

 United States treasury made necessary on 

 account of the second intervention. The 

 president is of the opinion that the pres- 

 ent condition of the treasury of the gov- 

 ernment of Cuba is such as would not 

 warrant any demands upon Cuba under 

 the terms of the statute." 



The United States turned control over 

 to the Cubans with a tacit understanding 

 that misbehavior would bring intervention 

 in the interest of international good order. 

 The Cubans have understood pretty thor- 

 oughly that autonomy was permitted on 

 probation and that, should they show them- 

 selves incapable of self-government, the 

 protecting arm of Uncle Sam would be 

 thrown about them aga'm.— Charleston 

 (S. C.) Post. 



