[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER II: What the Postman Brought 13/26
Just as identically as the Northern Pacific and Great Northern run from St.Paul to Seattle do England and the United States aim at Liberty, defined and assured by Law.
As friends, the two nations can swing the world towards world stability.
My correspondent would hardly have instanced the Boers in his reference to England's misdeeds, had he reflected upon the part the Boers have played in England's struggle with Germany. I will point out no more of the latent weaknesses that underlie various passages in this letter, but proceed to the remaining letters that I have selected.
I gave one from an enlisted man and one from a sailor; this is from a commissioned officer, in France. "I cannot refrain from sending you a line of appreciation and thanks for giving the people at home a few facts that I am sure some do not know and throwing a light upon a much discussed topic, which I am sure will help to remove from some of their minds a foolish bigoted antipathy." Upon the single point of our school histories of the Revolution, some of which I had named as being guilty of distorting the facts, a correspondent writes from Nebraska: "Some months ago...
the question came to me, what about our Montgomery's History now....
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