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To: Dayuhan who wrote (56885)	10/4/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

I am confident that McKinley was largely ignorant of Manila. "[Senator] Foraker described one pleasant little interview at the White House. He asked the President to bear a friend in mind for a consular post .... McKinley confessed that he hesitated to mention the only available opening, as he had been informed that it was not desirable. It was a place called Manila, "somewhere away around the other side of the world," Foraker recalled that McKinley said; "he did not know exactly where , for he had not had time to look it up." Leech, p. 138 As to the Sugar Trust, please recall that it was the monopolist manufacturer of sugar and not grow sugar itself. Hawaii's growers had to get into the tariff band to get a decent price (or reciprocity). There was always since the 18th century a vast surplus of sugar production and refining capacity and the sugar growers (who had the political power) insisted on keeping new producers out. Annexation of the Philippines, of course, was an immense pain in the ass for the protected American growers. McKinley (with Roots' endorsement) wanted free trade for Porto Rico (as they called it then) and even three BWI islands, but flipped (with Roots concurrence) and went for tariff legislation. This was a prelude to PI's treatment. Nobody knew if the Constitition (no internal tariffs) went with the flag. The Supreme Court said it didn't, so the US could exploit its island possessions as it wished.