The Press: Selling Papers

Comments the New York Evening

Post: "The inhabitants of the British West Indies, of course, are eager for annexation to the United States. Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands...

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