Show Last summer all over continental I Europe the newspapers were telling that the inhabitants of the Danish West Indies were violently opposed Ylolenl opposrd to the sale of the Islands to the United States It was picked up on this side and to it was added the statement that the conditions of conditon Porto Rico under un-der American rule had absolutely changed the opinion of the people of the Danish West Indies and they looked with klnd of akind horror upon annexation an-nexation BUt 3Ir Taylor who signs himself a member of the Colonial Council of St Thomas and St John says that most ocour merchants property holders and others are ready and willing for the transfer understanding under-standing the advantage of belonging to the United States Ho adds that he has lived lnthe islands thirty seen years has served as a member of the CoIonlaFCouncIl for sixteen years and rcpresented the Territory d the Worlds fair In Chicago for I which reasons he claims to know the socially Island l politically commercially and I |