Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — REPORT ON PORTO RICO. [ARTICLE]

REPORT ON PORTO RICO.

Commission Fays the People Are All Ready to Be Americanized. The insular commission appointed by the War Department to investigate the affairs of Porto Rico and to report upon all matters relating to currency, laws, taxation, judiciary, public improvements, education and civil affairs generally has .made a unanimous report to the Secretary of War. The commissioners say that all classes and conditions of the Porto Rican population are ready and willing to accept American Institutions and to be content with them, and in general they recommend the establishment of such laws as will give the people substantially the same protection now enjoyed by the people of the United States.