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Who believes that we can admit this little island from the mid-Atlantic, a third of the way over to Africa, and then reject nearer and more valuable islands when they come?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid questions the logic of admitting distant islands while rejecting closer, more valuable ones, emphasizing the inconsistency in policy.
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