The New PacificBancroft Company, 1899 - 733 pages |
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... miles and more , uncovering its waters to the wild - fowl from the south for three months in the year , un- ruffled by any craft save the kyaks of the Eskimos . Now there are towns on its banks , and hundreds of boats , large and small ...
... miles and more , uncovering its waters to the wild - fowl from the south for three months in the year , un- ruffled by any craft save the kyaks of the Eskimos . Now there are towns on its banks , and hundreds of boats , large and small ...
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... miles of under- water cables in operation at present . The connection is com- plete the world over except across the Pacific , and this defect will soon be remedied . Also , ere long to be consummated , is the waterway from ocean to ...
... miles of under- water cables in operation at present . The connection is com- plete the world over except across the Pacific , and this defect will soon be remedied . Also , ere long to be consummated , is the waterway from ocean to ...
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... miles of subtropical zones have been seized by the European powers for purposes of colonization and control , each nation meanwhile deeming it unsafe not to provide for increase of numbers further than is convenient within present ...
... miles of subtropical zones have been seized by the European powers for purposes of colonization and control , each nation meanwhile deeming it unsafe not to provide for increase of numbers further than is convenient within present ...
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... miles more of them are to be put up . Here is America's opportunity ; American steamboats for the riv- ers , American machinery for the mills and mines , and a net- work of American railways to overspread the land . " It is not merely ...
... miles more of them are to be put up . Here is America's opportunity ; American steamboats for the riv- ers , American machinery for the mills and mines , and a net- work of American railways to overspread the land . " It is not merely ...
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... miles , and contained a population of 5,000,000 . In 1898 , including the acquisition of that year , a population of 85,000,000 occupied an area of 3,800,000 square miles . Hence it was clearly evident on the day of the great appear ...
... miles , and contained a population of 5,000,000 . In 1898 , including the acquisition of that year , a population of 85,000,000 occupied an area of 3,800,000 square miles . Hence it was clearly evident on the day of the great appear ...
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Page 164 - The Inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and in the meantime they shall be maintained!
Page 143 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 191 - ... prepare them for local self-government, and in due time to make such disposition of said islands as will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United States and the inhabitants of said islands.
Page 168 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Page 302 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 45 - I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me ; I have seen them ; they will remain in my mind forever — and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died nineteen hundred years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them 'has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined. Europe may tolerate her existence as long as the people of the Old World wish.
Page 618 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Page 220 - I even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.