Excerpt from Great Issues and National Leaders Live Questions of the Day Discussed: Including Imperialism, Expansion, Trusts, the Government of Our New Territories, Nicaraguan Canal, Open Door in the East, Etc, With Party Platforms in Full and Lives of Candidates and Noted Men of the Day, One Hundred Years of Political History and the Gr

This will be the last Presidential campaign of the century, and in many respects it bids fair to be one of the most interesting and important. The result of the Spanish War was to involve the United States in new and vast responsibilities. Whether rightly or wrongly, we have the Philippines, Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawii on our hands. What shall we do with them?

Four years ago the issue was upon the adoption of a gold or silver standard. The tariff question also entered then into consideration. In the four years that have passed, Congress has by law made gold the standard, and although some may call into question the wisdom of this policy, yet the subject of finance will not occupy as prominent a place in the campaign of 1900 as the newer issues, trusts, the government of our New Possessions, imperialism and expansion. At such a time it is helpful to review carefully the history of our past, to have at hand a connected and interesting account of the development of our Government and the policies which have been pursued since its formation. Arc we about to change and enter upon new lines of political development? In fact, we can find that in our history many of the problems of to-day have appeared in one or more forms in the past Therefore, we have before us in this volume, a chapter which covers the lives of the Presidents and the issues of the campaigns of the past 100 years.

There is given also in an interesting and concise form an account of our New Possession, the Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, and also the story of the war, as a result of which we came into possession of these foreign lands. The beautiful illustrations which are found in these pages add to their interest by appealing to the eye and giving a truthful representation of the islands and peoples.

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