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39 We believed our true destiny was to avoid en- tanglements with the affairs of other nations. Al- though for hundreds of years England and Spain and 'Portugal and Holland and France, and lately Germany, had been gaining in colonial possessions, we had none, and boasted that we wanted nothing. Yet we have leaped right into the midst of the possession of, and responsibility for, colonial de- pendencies in a way that must, in the nature of the case, revolutionize our whole conduct and change our national course in the future. I am not one of those who are alarmed at this. Our nation has done so many surprising things, and done them so surprisinglywell, that I have faith in the power of Americans to do yet another thing well. But this is what has happened to us: At the opening of theyear 1898 England led, and'Spain closely followed her, as the largest owner and governor -of colonial possessions. This year Eng- land still leads, but Spain has dropped out of the list of governments with important colonial pos- sessions, and the- United States has moved up to second place among the nations. lNow, shall we perform our self-assumed task well or badly? Wel1? Of course we will. If we do not lose our head' and think we know it all at once, we will gain union and glory and wealth by the change, I feel well assured. You have all known instances of people getting into new enter- prises and thinking that they know all about 'them until they find out the contrary, and coming out of them very much crestfallen. Some years ago, When, at the end of the civil strife, the South was reduced to the condition of unreconstructed territories, the
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