Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Wonders of Annexation. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of Annexation.

This is already the greatest country the sun ever shone upon. But what will it be when Claus Spreckels annexes Hawaii to us; when Goldwin Smith has pulled down the commercial and political barriers between us and Canada; and when the American syndicate now in control of San Domingo’s finances have hitched that miserable bankrupt island on to our then united kingdom? What great blessings will flow from the possession of these islands and countries, and the increased.commerce do to unrestricted trade with them? For if all are a part of this United States the benefits of free trade will be undisputed. The most rock-ribbed professor in the McKinley school of economics does not advocate protective tariff walls between our States; and certainly there are more natural reasons for such a wall between New York and Virginia than between New York and Canada—that is, of course, if Canada were also a pail of this country? Now two tariff walls are necessary between each of these countries to keep them mutually prosperous. But

let a few politicians and rich speculators put one name over all, and, like magic, everything is reversed; trade will then be wholesome and enrich each and all of the before separate nations. It will then be perfectly proper for a merchant or a manufacturer in New York to sell to a farmer in Canada and take his produce in exchange. A wonderful world this, with its common-sense ways of solving perplexing questions!