Show Danish Cession Would Help United States to Command of Caribbean I The purchase by tho the United States of the tho three islands of of St. St Thomas St. St Croix and St. St John constituting toe tide Danish West cst Indies will help to cement ce cement cement ce- ce ment Uncle Sams Sam's control of ot the CarIbbean Caribbean Car Car- sea and thus of the entrance to the gulf gult of Mexico The territory shown on the tho map in black will all aU then be under the American flag flag flag- the three islands Porto Rico the Panama canal strip Florida and Port Tort Portau au Prince In Haiti ir It the treaty ne negotiated negotiated negotiated ne- ne between the United States and the goes through The treaty with the Danes providing forthe for forthe forthe the payment of must of ot course be ratified by the senate The house louse too must ratify it In effect because th the appropriation for the payment payment payment pay pay- ment must be passed there The photograph shows St St. Thomas FLA I I s 's r j Y S r 1 4 7 1 Mr J r r Yf f tr L E e i is f Y c. c n K Kr r w. w s Nr T T. S qu POKY PR NcE HAlT RICO 60 H T. T I SA JOHN IJ a e J p N O 4 K NGo ST ST. t C R. Sf r r rr Z e In ep p j c r r street in Charlotte Amalie the largest city in the islands It was taken from the veranda of the American hotel hotel hotel ho ho- ho- ho tel and club Due probably to the reluctance of Danish capitalists to invest invent t more money for improving and maintaining maintain maintain- ing tag the Islands conditions have been becoming more unsatisfactory St. St I Thomas Is threatened with bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- the harbor trade its principal I support being almost dead St. St Croix is facing a social revolution following agitation by laborers for tor higher wages and better living conditions It Is mainly the planters who are desirous of ot being brought under the American flag expecting under such a condition with improved agricultural methods and the use of ot large tracts of ot land now uncultivated a larger arger production of of- sugar and rum the islands' islands chief chiet products would enjoy a free and ready market in the United States The island of St. St John also expects to to benefit should the sale be con consummated um- um mated the greater part of ot the Island there being uncultivated and uninhabIted um-I um |