Then behind Porto Rico stands Cuba, and behind Cuba, in time, stand the whole of the West Indies, on whom that law of political gravitation which John Quincy Adams described will be perpetually acting with redoubled force.
Reid discusses the political implications of Porto Rico's status in relation to Cuba and the West Indies.
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