United States Colonies and Dependencies

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Excerpt from United States Colonies and Dependencies: The Travels and Investigations of a Chicago Publisher in the Colonial Possessions and Dependencies of the United States, With 600 Photographs of Interesting People and Scenes, IllustratedTo show how beneficially we have treated and. Are treating our dependencies, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Republic of Panama, has been one of my Objects. In a somewhat larger sense, because they are our own, I have wanted to Show my readers Porto Rico and our good work there, also our improving and beneficial government of the Hawaiian Islands and, especially, the Philippines, and to pro test against our impending desertion of the latter. At the same time, not the least of my purposes has been to show Alaska as it really is, and that our policy there is far from what it should be, also the Panama Canal Zone, our latest and most important and peculiar colony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.