The Republican journal., 1902-04-10
TgF ISLAND OF TRINIDAD.


.. uf SPAIN, Trinidad Island,
1902. Notwithstanding the
loctrine, and the talk concern
t.trtca for Americans. the fact
mat nowhere on earth are so
comments represented III equal
tie clustered islands off our
eastern coast. Collectively
West Indies, and ranged in
between Florida and Nene-
Is comprise, all told. not more
hundred thousand square
md: yet today they display
ii seven nations-including
me new Cuban Republic, the
a1 not yet displaced at st
ST. CroiN and st. Jam and the
. stripes above Porto Rico,
Mona and Culebra. Haiti, you
the flags of two republics.
MAS Curacao. st. Eustatius
Ayre and Oruba: While to
rDougs Martinique. st Bar
Guadalupe, Maria Galante,
anJ Les Nantes. England, as
~ the HONS share, with the
BermUdas, Barbados, ia
t4Ud. dominica, Montserrat, !
st. Christopher, Rrdondo, |
uda, -. Vincent, most of |
stands. Grenada and the |
to say nothing OF half a |
..le, on the main land of Cen !
south America.
Tiny groups Of islands com
.. M lesser Antilles are ruled by |
opean Colonial governments,
.t these groups has smaller
the average county of the
ates; vet each maintains the
1t a full hedged American
with an administrative establish
nal to that of great big Texas,
rupulOus State of New York.
alS sent over from Europe to
~-er the affairs of these island
-. --NuS receive salaries very much
nan do public servants in the
.4 ~tates-and the little islands
es have to foot the bills, in the
taxes. For example, The Brit
OWeS of the Lesser Antilles have
--leeate population about equal to
Rhode Island, and the four
governors that rule them re-
sn5.u00 per annum-as much as
aF If seventeen governors in the
states,
\-5Htlly enough. the islanders are
oeing taxed to support impe-
.-- Younger SONS and political
les who cannot be satisfactorily
.t tor in overcroWded England
.l are given fat berths i'll the
'r~ whether or not they are fit
them; tired of having all the
ids owned by nabobs who reside
0ther side of the Atlantic, pay
-~lmal wages to native work
I'd care nothing for the islands
tle money they can squeeze out
TO be spent elsewhere. Sure
sun shines. the end of this
al state of affairs must come,
slant day That the present
If the islands are not insensible
is shown III garrisons recently
and the extraordinary care
keep firearms out of the hands
u3tlYeS. Not even peaceful
allowed to take his pistol i'll
-uout paying several times its
security for his own good be-
lud d guarantee that he will
-r or give it to some Creole.
appenings also indicate grow
satisfaction among the island
Not long ago, at st. Kits, all
men and longshoremen struck
lUer wages. and simultaneously
preconcerted arrangement, the
-a'Qn hands Of the interior began
fashioned came brulle, (cane
which might easily have led
neral uprising. Especially in
d the sentiment against the
S strong among the hoi polloi.
.I-breeds who comprise the bulk
population have French blood
-- veins; and IN case of trouble
1re negroS would follow the
''.'> 10 a man and-worse veto
tHD During the last annual carni- !
' which for two days, all over the
indies, the natives, dressed in
rAe. rule everything-it was plain
seen that the celebration was
NJ commemoration of the good
Tvs of negro instructions, when
taH houses were burned to ashes |
-a Whole families murdered by their :
"'ts The English population is
small in Trinidad, being practical
'"nined to few officials by
Nay, are heartily disliked, the
'ror most of all. A mistaken
N prevails III the United States
3aIy gathered from the fine forts
Hodem guns at St Lucia and
that British troops are
'0oQs in the West Indies. In point
"r there are few English soldiers