The evening world., 1911-11-20
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COPYRIGHT 1911. BY Tho Pres Publishing Co. che New ION world.
No. Fiehfine-Then the Era of Good
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Oh RIBUTE to Pirates, from 1895 to 1916. S1s36000!"
Thus raj a big item Of expense in Uncle Sans ledger: an item
that did not include the loss OF hundreds Of lives and Of many
~ thousand dollars at the sea-rovers' hands. 1t was merely the
I'm paid to buy of the pirates from doing further damage.
This seems hard to believe; but in the first part Of the nineteenth cen
try several great European powers as well as ourselves paid uch oackmah
for immunity from piratical attacks. The little African coast principaGties.
Alsiers Tripol, Tunis and others, had made heavy revenue for hundreds Of
years by their pirate. ships that sailed the Mediterranean, seizing and plum
dering merchant vessels, killing or "impressng' their rel and either
selling the passengers into slavery or holding them for ransom.
In 1876 or country paid 100000 ransom for captured citizens. gave the
Dey Of Alghrs a 100000 warship and agreed to pay $4,000 . year In
But the "a of 1912 had awakened among Americans a mighty demand
treatment on the seas Commodore Decatur "a sent in May. 1876 with . SQUAD.
SSS~c~~~sSSSSs2 had been trying for three years to eac England. Decatur.
With Pirates. o June H. a a@os an Aisertne pirate Meet that ws
pirates, drove them before him e chan. and captured
and forced pom he frightened pey a treaty hat forever smashed Aigsnns
piracy a far as thu United States was concerned. Decatur wrun from thu p.y
emand and indemnity for every dollars worth of American property that had
He followed this triumph " swooptng down upon Tripod n Tunis ana
forcing heir rulers to max similar concession In a sansae da.hhns cruise ~
"a sounded the death kneho OF piracy and had achieved what ali Emepsan
nations had despaired Ola accomplishing. He had also taught the worho m~e
s saes" tho '0' OF interfering with inc rights n '' ''a'e''0 u n United
And now. after years Of warfare. N stress an hard times. Nm q peaceful
had made the worlda t large acknowledge our power W . yer. at peace and sSs
turn or attention to III 1ong-nesieced industries Political strife VA for
the moment stred The country waxed rich. There was much work to do ana
good pay for doing it, New Western and vas opened u p and developed. New
states we're admitted to The Union. Manuacture m agriculture doomed .
In 1879 We bought Florida from spain, paying 100000 for its so quar-. uns,
Its hostile stretches IF wilderness int fertile farms and cities. Europe also a.
corded us a far higher respect than ever before
The browning feature of this" Era OF Good Feeling" was reached when the
famous Monroe Doctrine" IA launched This Doctrine declared In b4a:
.~~>~~~~~o r ina .e om,ea s,a.e' shou!d never gain ahow ~
no-rIu"" America or to claim the right to interfere With TIN ansis
S~~~~~~~~' Of any North tn, or south American country. In short. tn:
tn Whole Western Hemisphere against foreign control
men ms Su nat its, n@ por Ssn h criticised n.vsr ssm ams to a s",, by various BUS, su.oD:.a state.
Monroe Doctrine rests lessw with President Monroe than with his Secretary OF
The Era Of Good So' Feelings 8 SS "a. S Ss sDF eaS. %'S vs calm s.~.. :, .o,n..
And so it proved The war-weary country val but gathering mo nssded rren~
to faces w an Infinitely greater problem.