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Show "And It Is a Country Worth Living for, Fighting and Dying For" By COL. P. E. IIOLr, Chicago Lecturer. Eight times America has gone to war under the Star-Spangled Banner, Ban-ner, and not once have we taken un acre of ground or a dollar of money as a result of winning that is th? "American way." At the end of the World war nearly all th? nations of Europe had to make new maps of their countries to take in the new territory they had acquired. After winning the war this country did not add a single acre to its area. When we wanted territory we purchased it. We didn't declare wet on the country owning the property and take it as the spoils of conquest. Alaska, Florida, California, the Virgin islands, the entire Middle West, were all purchased and paid f.r by the United States. In Cuba's hour of nead we sent our troops and our navy to her assistance, and then wo withdrew with-drew and let Cuba remain an independent republic. In spite of all this, however, the foreign nations look upon us as an imperialistic nation, arid we hae been called the "Shyloek of nations" by those who cannot understand our principles, our ''American way " This country is not perfect, but it is the nearest perfect of all the nations on the face of the earth, and it is a country worth living for, fighting for and dvinir for. Let us all be 10.0 per cut Americans. , |