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Show THE UNITED 'STATES AS A GREAT POWER. In many quarters the statement has been offered- as an excuse for, and as though in extenuation of our war of conquest now,', being waged, that such is necessary to establish our position as ' a great power among the nations of the world. .. - The venerable Senator Hoar, whose powers of intellect seem to sharpen with age, has answered that assertion in a single paragraph that deserves to rank among the classics ";The United States," he said, "came out of the war of 1S12 a first-class power, and she has been a first-class power ever since a sower that has kept off the whole of Europe from North America and the West Indian islands, except as it was there before. There has not been a country since that time, great or small, that has ventured to tackle us, and thore is not a country on earth, great or small that would not have got out of any trouble with us by diplomacy rather than by war," |