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Show RECALLING A LITTLE HISTORY. During Roosevelt's time in the presidency, pres-idency, Germany was made to yield to our demands In regard to Venezuela. In explaining why the Kaiser backed down, the Butte Miner presents this scrap of history: "At the time the United States had a more powerful navy than Germany, for the German government was just starting out on its building program, which today has made it the second largest naval power in the world. The reason that the Kaiser backed down will be found in volume 2, page 279, of the recently published life of Mr. John Hay, which quotes that monarch as saying' M 'If I had had a larger fleet I would have taken Uncle Sam by the scruff of the neck.' " nr . |