University of Guam Micronesian Area Research Center | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

At various times during the nineteenth century, administrators, missionaries, and government officials had stressed the poor economic conditions of the Marina Islands, pleading for the implementation of administrative and economic reforms. But the cost that reforms for those remote colonies represented to an impoverished government, coupled with the immediacy of domestic and foreign problems, impeded their implementation or reduced them to a minimum.

Translated by: Marjorie G. Driver