Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Uncle Sam’s Tropical Islands. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam’s Tropical Islands.

CapL John Ross, in speaking of something recently published in regard to the undesirability of the United States owning islands so far away as the Hawaiian Islands, says that it does not appear to be generally known that the United States owns seventy-five islands in the North and South Pacific. They are nearly all within twelve degrees of the equator, north or south, and are principally guano islands of small size, which have been taken possession of J>y Americans. The American coastng laws apply to them, and foreign Vessels are restricted from carrying the guano from them to the United States. Many of these islands are laither from the coast than the Harahan Islands, so Capt Ross thinks here could be no objection to the Jnited States owning the latter also. 4-Portland Oregonian.