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made to supply the deficiency out of the sugar hogshead, 
and this, as long as any other means remains untried, 
we should all be prepared to resist. 
In the early part of this paper I referred to the United 
States as possibly not willing to grant us Most Favoured 
Nation treatment. I will now adduce some of the con- 
siderations which make for that view. 
As it was through the act of Great Britain, British 
Guiana was not permitted to partake in the Most 
Favoured Nation article in the treaty of 1815 between 
Great Britain and the United States, so the United 
States Government may now very naturally object: to 
grant British Guiana that privilege solely because it is 
our wish. The United States have fulfilled their treaty 
obligations fairly and honourably we may assume toward 
the other party to the treaty, why then should they step 
out of their way to be generous, because that other party 
has changed her colonial policy ? England being a free 
trader has nothing to offer to America for this conces- 
sion, and America might very well urge that the welfare 
of the British West Indies was nothing to her, especially 
if it did not run on all fours with her own foreign policy. 
America is not likely to accord exceptional privileges to 
any country without a counterpoise. Take the case of 
the Hawaiian Islands. Formerly they were British in 
their sympathies, and were more like a British colony 
than an independent kingdom, but the San Francisco 
people discovered these islands could grow sugar, and 
that their geographical position was unrivalled, so they 
began to develope them American fashion, entered into 
a Reciprocity treaty with them in 1876, to take all their 
sugars duty free, and to pay for them with American 
