Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — IN PLEA FOR GUADALOUPE [ARTICLE]

IN PLEA FOR GUADALOUPE

Henry Bfranger, French Benator, Sees Great Future for Colony in the Antilles. Paris. —Henry Beranger, the FYench 'senator representing Guadaloupe, the French island colony in the Lesser Antilles group in the Atlantic, has issued a public appeal in behalf of that island, which he has just visited. Senator Beranger foresees a great industrial and agricultural future for Guadaloupe, but he declares that the island is now too heavily burdened with taxes. He points out that in the last ten years the population has increased from 180,000 to 220,000, and Guadaloupe has maintained her. output of sugar, the coffee production has tripled and the production of fruit flavorings has steadily mounted. What Guadaloupe needs, says Senator Beranger, is a chance to work by herself and for herself. She needs to be freed from excessive taxes levied by the mother country and the great variety of fiscal charges which stifle the'efforts of and fishermen and which -together constitute a burden which discourages the admirable enthusiasm of the islanders to develop into a successful and brilliant colony.