Show THE GREAT beizer ENGLAND during its eventful history has been successively conquered and over overrun ruti by different ambitious and land grabbing races the romans j the saxons the danes the normans have each laid their hands bands on the tight little island and for fora a time held sway over its shores the present english are a composite race a mixture of the nationalities that have at different periods found place upon the soil ot of great britain they were all aggressive cinq conquering bering annexing and dominating invaders perhaps that thal is the reason why england to today day is the greatest larid land grab ber among the nations all the leading powei s are on the look out for additional dit ional territory and none ot then them lose a safe opportunity to seize upon a weak province or gobble up an unprotected slice of land but england is the champion among them all france laid out in acquiring Tonquin besides the expenditure ot lives which do not aunt c much with the principals in such transactions and she is now BOW casting covetous glances toward panama germany G r nas laid hold of the caroline islands but cannot retain them italy has managed to occupy a point in africa on the red sea russia is pushing toward the south and east and austria wants a along the coast of the adriatic for which she has lusted for twenty years but england grea ency and greedy but met impudence taken possession of egypt cyprus burmah the red eed sea coast of africa and her pickings of places along the south african coast whenever an point becomes important in any part of the globe England swoops down upon it like a bird of prey without a rustle of her widespread wide spread wings and lays upon it her tenacious claws the map ot ol the world shows more spots that come under the head of british possessions than can be claimed by all the other great powers combined the more a nation extends its grasp upon outside territory the less it is inclined to let go its grip of any portion of its dominions in this respect it is like a land loving individual who will buy up all he can purchase but is riot not willing to part with a piece apiece to the landless so poor suffering ireland must remain in bondage for fear that a little litile liberty might result in her complete emancipation from the ownership of the great seizer ot land and monarch of the sea |