Continental Union Civil Service for the Islands An Address At the Massachusett
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The immediate contention, to be sure, is only about Puerto Rico, and it is only a very little island. But who believes he can stop the avalanche ? What wise man at least will take the risk of starting it ? Who imagines that we can take in Puerto Rico and keep out nearer islands when they come ? Powerful elements are already pushing Cuba. Practically everybody rec- ognizes now that we must retain control of Cuba's foreign rela- tions. But beyond that, the same influences that came so near hurryi...ng us into a recognition of the Cuban Republic and the Cuban debt are now sure that Cuba will very shortly be so " Americanized " (that is, overrun with American speculators) that it cannot be denied admission — that in fact it will be as American as Florida ! And, after Cuba, the deluge ! Who fancies that we could then keep Santo Domingo and Hayti out ; or any West India island that applied ; or our friends, the Kan- akas ? Or who fancies that after the baser sort have once tasted 10 A CONTINENTAL UNION blood iu the form of such rotten-borough States, and have learned to form their larger combinations with them, we shall still be able to admit as a matter of right a part of the territory exacted from Spain, and yet deny admission as a matter of right to the rest?
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