Show OJ ST ThOMAS Consul of St SI Croix Sas It New ew York Oct ot cable Ahle lie IUS patch from St 51 Thom Thomas D W I stat stating Ing that much adverse feeling has been there b by the revivAl ot of the re report report port that Denmark Intended to sell Mil her Islands to 10 tilt the United SIt States caused much surprise allon among Dense and Amer AmerIcans leans who claim to be on pub public lie lic opinion There according to the dispatch a meeting ot of the council hAS been convoked nt at St CroIx for tor the pur 11 Ie ot of making formal protest n agaInst the sate anle The press throughout the 11 ands ande the dispatch went vent on to en say pro tested lettel against the pr sale alf d ds daring We do not desire to be old those thole qua lined to discus the situation In St It Croix I Is A J 1 mk wood American consul In that llac chairman ot of the colonial council and the mot most extensive owner of at interests there Mr I is now staying at the Pierrepont house Brook Drook Brooklyn lyn with hi his wife and nd famIly When seen Ifen there he said not In m my official III As consul but as the chairman or of tb the colonial council I Ia Isay say a that th the statement In the cable message I Ii untrue Ever Iver since the pub halt May ot of the tory story ot of Cap ap lad and Mr Ir alleged deal tr the Standard Oil company In crest In the iSle ale ot of the islands hiss hat been rene reneged ed among their inhabitants more than ever er before Only two months I ago the InhabItants of at St Croix held a mass meeting petitionIng tIre tile king for tor the sale ot of the Islands to the Untied United Slat States Over Or two thirds third of Bt the Interest or of I the e island wee represented on that petition As R a matter ot of we are bound to 10 wish to come com under the Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican flag We 1 ant vant annexAtion and we want It even It only wIth the lime came Privileges tendered to Porto Take the dul dulon duty on sugar lugar from Porto IUlo and from St Croix and compare them alii ani lee wh why w we want to ho bo annexed A three Ihre hun hundred died dred pound ot of sugar Ular tram from Porto PortoRico RIo Rico Is III taxed with a dut duty or of 7 75 cent The same weight ot of the same ame kind ot of sugar ugar tram from St SI Croix Is Ie taxed IS 5 Can there be longer loner doubt as to whether or not we ant sant annexation As to the advantages or of St Thomas Thoma St John and St Croix to this govern meat ment that Is a story lOr I leave to gov government to jUdgment I speak onlY from the standpoint ot of an Islander Ther are some ome In St Croix who to selfish motives the welfare Of t the majority are raIsIng a loud cry crr against annexation These are without exception men who hold good jobs Job un under der the pr present government inert who like doctors and druggists t under the present Danish law hold monopolIes In their lines ant and rich negroes who Iho tear fear the American race opinions and nd tear fear American capItal and labor will swamp them This Thill mInorIty I Is doing all In its power to raise a 11 er cry over the pro proposed sale |