Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-13 | Page 4 | The Danish West Indies

t DANISH WEST WE WEST INDIES INDES IND INDES ES In Ln common common Y we s suppose wi with t most Americans Amerl ans we have thought t that th treaty treat with Denmark providing for the time cession of the Danish WesL Indian islands to the h U United Stat States s would be ber r ratified q d by ti the Senate without i any op op- op potion whatever The obvious nu- nu natii tiu advantage if it not the necessity of of or controlling 59 so important a s strategic base in m t the e Oar bean s sea a has been fully recognized by the country and andO O presume pre ute had haq been n also by every S Senator But it appears that at atle le least st st. two members of of our Upper Hou House e are opposed to the treaty and may ni attemPt attempt to passage pas age These dissidents are are ted i to I be he Senators Hale of ot Maine and BaI Bacon Bacon Ba Ba- con of Georgia Georg The former is an ex- ex imp anti imperialist anU r i st and i is credited cred cred- Jt t d c with i aT ij l t this is project t ot of an an- an tion because se anything m In n the line or pr national na onal expansion is obnoxious lous JD o him S Senator Bacons Bacon's objections are p bs based k cI upon 1 t the tf treaty ty pr j io S j j frig ing ess The power to define detine efine the future political status of o It the islanders islanders islanders- and nd provi providing that the purchase money moneys s shall it i be r ald int 1 the the colonial treasury treas treas- ur ury He He the the word colonial Improper and inthe connection a rec- rec ry 1 of t that tIa the h Republic g rules ules over Yer jc It Ic 1 does ge pes of purs J and pd nd as Pooh Ban Ba w would uJ remark rk why I Inot not say sar say so so That consideration a apparently apparently ap ap- does not appeal to the Georgia corgia statesman statesman and he may prove bleon the subject Nevertheless we arc are unable to see any any r 1 reason ri f for f l f fearing r rih- rih i g that the thel treaty will not receive the Constitutional majority hd become law without material difficulty