What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies?: the Annual Address Before the Bar Association of South ...
What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies?: the Annual Address Before the Bar Association of South ...
Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929
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. . . Cholera has raged, and is still raging, throughout the islands " ; and it is estimated that this disease ''will claim not less than 100,000 victims." The fall in the price of silver has," borne heavily on the commercial interests and on the wage-earners." **The com- mission has been obliged to go out of the islands and use in- sular funds to buy over 40,000,000 pounds of rice to save the people from perishing by famine," while it "has lost over ;$ 1,000,000 in gold by the decline in silve...r. . . . Agriculture Hosted by Google 35 is prostrated, commerce is hampered and discouraged/' Well did Mr. Burritt Smith say, " The President's prosperity seems composed in nearly equal parts of pestilence and famine/* But, seriously, what must we think when, with these conditions existing, the President can aver that the islands were never " as peaceful and prosperous as now " ? The bare comparison of the statement with the facts makes argument superfluous. Why do I dwell on these things ? Not to impugn the hon- esty of the President, whose nature is combative, not judicial, but because I would make you realize the vital difference be- tween the government of a people by themselves and a gov- ernment of the same people by another nation.
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