The Danish West Indies Will Yet Be Ours
THE DANISH WEST INDIES WILL YET BE OURS
By Senator SHELBY M. CULLOM, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WE SHALL EVENTUALLY BUY THE DANISH WEST INDIES. We shall certainly see that no other nation acquires title to them, and this doctrine we have announced to all the world. Neither will we pay more than the purchase price mentioned in the present treaty-$5,000,000.
WHEN THE "INS AND OUTS" GET THROUGH PLAYING PING-PONG WITH THIS TREATY AND USING IT SIMPLY AS AN INSTRUMENT TO FURTHER OR DEFEAT LOCAL POLITICAL ENDS, IT WILL BE RATIFIED AND THE SALE CONFIRMED.
The principal reasons that we care for the islands are that they lie somewhat in the path of commerce and that St. Thomas affords a coaling station that would be of importance to our navy, thus affording protection to Porto Rico, incidentally to Cuba and to an isthmian canal, whether constructed at Nicaragua or Panama.
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