Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-10
A SOURCE Of EXPENSE
Former Minister to Denmark
Says Danish West Indies
Are No Good.
Declares United States Should
Not Take Them Even
as Gift.
Have Long Been a Burden to
Denmark and Will Be to
Americans.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
/ Iowa City. Feb. 10.-.If the Unite'
States senators could see the Danisl
West India islands they would no
/! take them as a gift" said Hon. Rasmu
| b. Anderson, minister to Copenhagen
during the Harrison administration
today. THE islands, he continued
have been q constant source of eX-
pense and of no remuneration to the
Danish crown. Administrative officer:
and senblance of a standing arm!
have been kept there and all paid from
the Danish treasury, for nothing coulo
be raised from the islands. They have
proved such Il burden that ever since
1867 King Christian has been willing
to let so of them. save for sentimental
considerations. The islands would be
just as much a burden TO the United
States as to Denmak. We now have
Porto Rico, which fills the bill for q
east entrance to the caribbean sea.
This island is the protection which
was desired in 1867 by the purchase of
St. Thomas, of Denmark, and it's ac-
QUESTION at the close of the Spanish
war removes the only necessity that
could be plead for acquiring the DAN
ish islands. That was the only rea-
son advanced in 1867 and none has
come up since that time. Inasmuch
as we will have to take Cuba into our
union and within our tariff relations
within fifteen or twenty years at the
most, / think we will have all the pro-
lection of the caribbean sea which we
need and enough disturbance of our
tariff schedules and economic condi
lions If we let good enough alone and
stop our acquisition of island territory
in the West Indies with Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Isle of Pines.
The Monroe doctrine does not cover
the Danish West Indies at all 50 far as
| know. My understanding is that 1t
is silent as to them. The Monroe doc
trine would oppose the further acqui-
sition of territory in America by Eu-
ropean government and merely trans
ferred in its sovereignty between two
of the courts of Europe. the Monroe
doctrine does not pretend to deal.
1T is by no means certain that King
Christian will be able to secure the
of the treaty by the reich
H f1s eSSfp nESs 5R IL t AZ t na tfiRh
n good deal from a sentimental point
of view, they do not like to see their
empire Topped off, limb by limb. Tho
early years of King Christians reign
We're greatly saddened by the loss of
Schleswig and Holstein. He is now an
old man and to see the end of his
reign Swallowed by the further loss
Of Danish territory makes the DAN
sh people think that they are not
success. Greenland and Iceland, the
other American possessions of King
Christian pay revenue to the Danish
treasury besides supporting their gov
eminent and are quite desirable ter
'itories.
Mr.. Anderson is the guest at the
University of Iowa of the Edda soci-
ety of Scandinavian students. He
anne to deliver an address before
hem on Our Teutonic Epic" His
Tome is at Madison, Wisconsin. where
lie publishes America" one of the
eading Scandinavian journals of the
northwest and Pacific coast.