... spent on naval eonetructien, when it might be fairly argued powerful Fleet wat required to maintain tb* Spanish flag fat tbs Caribbean San and the Pacific, bad bean nearly all wanted. To trod ace hon—t efficient have hum first object, ouuld b* hut urn nil ...

... mutual security and economy of administration, elements which it must confessed are sadly to seek unong the communities the Caribbean mainland. Among these as an indirect consequence it might happily promote centripetal tendency, opposed to that fiasi parous ...

... mines regain their predecessors. Revolutions in the South American Republics, more especially in those bordering on the Caribbean, hare olton enough been batched in the United States, a circumstance partly duo to considerations oC safety and convenience ...

... arrangement would incite the Canadians set about building up that naval strength which the Empire will soon require in the Caribbean Sea. For the Panama ('anal will open a new highway to the traffic, the world and become a gate for seaborne commerce between ...

... its neighbours. It has been called, and rightly called, the revolutionary clearing house, narehouse, and hot-house of the Caribbean ; and the plotters who make it their headquarters ask large profits for their considerable risks. A revolutionist who their ...

... to its strategical Imports sea, and to the inference that the United States ought aaak to obtain paramount position the Caribbean See. Since Captain ManAS published his flnt book the United States have great Navy, and that Navy represents the national ...

... on, and risks they were ready to run. The conquest of the Philippines, the government of the annexed Spanish islands the Caribbean Sea presented difficulties which the framers of the Constitution bad not foreseen. In all these questions Mr. M'Kinley evinced ...

... Lino steamers, which run to Trinidad as their final point call fmm New York ; and from the numerous vessels trading in the Caribbean Sea and on the Spanish Main, which require frequent sheathing with copper and other repairs. In addition the Company has ...

... adopted, with more enthusiasm than knowledge, in the l > hilippiues,totherelations of the United States with the islands the Caribbean Sea, the Southern American Republics, and Canada. Wecannotfollow him in the discussion of any of these topics, or his interesting ...

... of Venezuela must not impair our recognition of the fact that in a technical sense the troublesome little Republic on the Caribbean has taken up a very strong position. She founds her attitude on a judgment of the Court of Cassation that the Asphalte Concession ...

... ng majority in favour of the principle that the American flag must be kept flying in the Eastern Pacific well as in the Caribbean Sea. It is to give definite effect to this deliberate verdict of the nation that the Houses the Legislature meet next week ...

... this canal remained merely one of the counters on the political card table. It was the conquests of the Republic in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific that once more gave the project political as well as commercial importance. Now ready communications ...