This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... not felt by their countrymen of the interior. The inhabitants of New York and Boston are, for instance, in closer touch with the thought and interests of London and Bordeaux than are the inhabitants of the cities in the middle States of America. It is obvious that the thought of London, New York, and Boston is greatly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... not felt by their countrymen of the interior. The inhabitants of New York and Boston are, for instance, in closer touch with the thought and interests of London and Bordeaux than are the inhabitants of the cities in the middle States of America. It is obvious that the thought of London, New York, and Boston is greatly affected by common interests and by the facility of their intercourse by sea. Daily and hourly the ships come and go between them with peculiar messages for themselves only. In the great towns of middle America the thought of London or Bordeaux has little or no direct influence. The immense mass and weight of America are already exercising an irresistible force in attracting the West Indies to it. As President John Adams said, 'There are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation." This force is now almost irresistible in the West Indies. It has been sought in vain to counteract it by subsidies to the islands from European governments or by the special privileges called reciprocities. Notwithstanding these encouragements, the trade of the West Indies continues to seek its natural American channels. This invariable tendency of trade is observable even in the distant North Atlantic island of Bermuda, where the flag alone continues British, and this only because the flagstaff is of good English oak. Except as coaling ports and dockyards the West Indies are now of very little importance to the European powers. From the economic point of view the West Indian Islands still retained by Europe are positively disadvantageous to Europeans, and their longer retention is prompted only by motives of ambition or sentiment. That the European powers could continue to hold their West Indian possessions during a war with America is unlikely. It ...
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