Show SENATOR FORAKER'S PREDICTION Senator Foraker's recent prediction concerning of this continent continent conti conti- the absorption of outlying portions nent is under process of verification The West Vest est Indies Indies Indies In In- dies will come in to the Republic of their own volition voli you tion ion tion and choice The time for their incoming un under el this condition is at hand The rhe greater part parl of these lands land belonging to Great Britain have luwe under the British colonial f system as aR applied to them and under un un- un del der British fiscal methods generally generall reached a i condition con con- dillon of redeemable irredeemable economic sterility They rhey must to regain prosperity l have ave a change in their industrial environments conditions conditions con con- political ical t financial and and amI influences The sugar planters of Jamaica Jamaica Ja- Ja Ja Ta- maica di discouraged at the business outlook for their country y have combined to effect the annexation of the island to the he United States The rhe movement mO took oi open n form after the adjournment of Congress without without without with with- out even eyen pas passing a Cuban hiban uban reciprocity bill hill British colonial officials look upon this action of Congress as uS deliberately taken for the purpose of leaving CubanS Cubans Cu Cu- i bans hans in a condition of helplessness calculated to induce the voluntary y y annexation of their country v The annexation movement of Jamaica docs not arise from an any American influence nce positive or negative Ye but IUt from the conviction forced by bJ de degeneration on sugar planters that prosperity prOf has hns fled their country coun till the Stars and ancI try to sta stay away Stripes its ils smiles and blessings The sugar ugal planters of the British Bi Vest West Indies are in desperate straits Beet Deet sugar is toda today tolay selling in En England for Ol 0 6 shillings or orl orless orless l less ss than luau 1 11 2 2 1 cents per pel pound whereas two years yem's n ago o it commanded more mOle than 3 a cents a pound Cane sugar 10 90 test is Felling in iii Britain for one-half one the price obtained in 1000 1900 This his means menns ruin for the cane growers of the West VeRt Indies Mr Ir Chamberlains Chamberlain's proposed pro iro- I posed grant of for the relief of the sugar ar planters of the lie islands can at best afford temporary relief The United States with its sound fi fiscal cal and economic policy and methods affords the Vest West Indies Indies In In- dies their material market and promises pi them development de de- de of all their varied resources But this Republic will not as Senator Foraker so 80 wisely predicts pre pre- use ufe any pressure to absorb the islands When Then they r get et ready to come in we shall he be prepared to give them terms just aliJ alike e to ourselves and to the applicants for fOI our p protection This holds true of Canada as aR well as the West e t Indies Both Doth must in time come onie un under el the rule of the Government at l Washington I |