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liberty and freedom for us and for the rest of the world. How can I 

 prove that? I can prove it by Cuba. Cuba, that little island off our 

 southern shores, whose cries were brought across the seas to American 

 hearts. Did we absorb her? No! We set her free from the yoke she 

 had worn so long, and said, "Now, little sister, cultivate your garden 

 in peace, and take your place in the great sisterhood of American repub- 

 lics." I am proud of a land that in that great commercial age could do 

 as fine a thing as that. Again, there is the Philippines; and here is 

 Mexico, just at our southern border, rich beyond the dreams of avarice, 

 but we haven't exploited her. We haven't wanted to go in, and in this 

 great nation there Is no substantial wish to absorb Mexico. Do you sup- 

 pose that could have happened in Europe? We may have to go into 

 Mexico, but we will go in to get out; we will go in to give them what 

 we want to give to all of the world — orderly, peaceful government. (Ap- 

 plause.) The point I wish to make is that we haven't been tempted. 

 There is another fine example of that land from which my brother comes, 

 there is that great Canadian border, two thousand miles long — Canada 

 has rested there for over one hundred years by our side and we have 

 witnessed not with envy but with pride the development of that 

 democracy similar to our own in spirit up there on the northern border, 

 and in all that two thousand miles of length not so much as a shotgun 

 to protect us from invasion. (Applause.) 



I speak of these things because it shows that right in the midst of this 

 great mechanical development, commercial development, industrial devel- 

 opment, economical development, we yet did preserve our outlook, our 

 sane spiritual outlook upon the rest of the world. But there was a na- 

 tion that did not preserve it; there was a nation that excelled in all these 

 things that I have mentioned, but who said, "Our mechanical and com- 

 mercial efficiency and organization are the great things that we shall 

 worship in this world; there is no such thing as interdependence; we 

 will make our nation big enough and strong enough that it will dominate 

 the world ; there will be no such thing as morals in our international re- 

 lations." That nation was growing while we were growing — growing 

 upon the continent of Europe. She invaded every market, her ships 

 were found upon the seven seas, her salesmen were active in every mar- 

 ket upon the face of the earth; all she had to do was to wait the results 

 of peaceful penetration and she would have had a hold on the world 

 that nothing under the sun could have loosened, but she did not wait — 

 and the great day came! Do you know what that was born of? Her 

 desire in 1914 was born of the taste of blood when she overran and took 

 Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark and then a few years later turned 

 upon Austria; but most of all in 1871 when she invaded and subdued 

 France she had a taste of blood. And so in these later days she looked 

 to the west and saw the smoking chimneys of industrious Belgium, and 

 looking farther to the west she could see the hulls of England as they 

 tossed in the waves — swift shuttles in the empire's loom — and she was 

 envious. She looked to Russia with its tremendous resources in man 

 power and undeveloped wealth; she looked to the far east and the Orient, 

 and she dreamed of a Berlin-to-Bagdad railway, and to her people she 



