Of course our fine sentiments were all sham, they said.
Of course we intended to swallow Cuba, and never had intended anything else.

And when General Leonard Wood came away from Cuba, having made Havana healthy, having brought order out of chaos on the island, and we left Cuba independent, Europe jeered on.

That dear old Europe! Again, in 1909, it was not any European nation that returned to China their share of the indemnity exacted in consequence of the Boxer troubles; we alone returned our share to China--sixteen millions.

It was we who prevented levying a punitive indemnity on China.

Read the whole story; there is much more.