Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-01
AMERICA WORLDS
MOST IDEAL LAND
SAYS COLONEL HOLP
CHHUTAUQUA SPEAKER GIVES
REASONS WHY WE SHOULD BE
SETS PACE FOR ALL NATIONS
TO FOLLOW.

Approximately 1000 people, the
largest attendance to attend any
single program of this years meeting,
gathered in the Chautauqua Park audi
torium last night to hear splendid
lecture entitled THE American Way"
by Col P. B. Holp, one of the country's
most noted speakers Mr.. Holps
talk was a comparison of the manner
of the growth in size of America, and
that of other nations of the world.
He has been lecturer in the larger
circuits for the past twenty-five years
or more He has a magnificent voice,
logical mind and fine imagination.
Under the Council of National De-
fense he rendered splendid service
during the war, making more patri-
otic talks than any other one Ameri-
can Following is his talk in part:
"The Americans are different from
other people of other nations. They
see things differently from other
countries The United States today
is the only nation in the universe that
didn't get out new map after the
Worlds war. Why? Because they
stood alone and showed an entirely
different spirit England. France,
Italy and others who fought against
Germany, all added territory to their
holdings because they were conquer
ors and took what they wanted. The
United States didn't add any more
territory nor did they have to get out
tXtslr
American way Of business.
"In 1900 the Boxers war in China
bruke out. Americans, English,
French. Germans and various others
were killed by the Chinese. AS a re.
suit of the outbreak the Chinese
nation went in debt millions and mill
ions of dollars. The English, the
French, the Italians and the Germans
all forced China to pay the indebt-
ness. Americas share was Is million
dollars but they didn't collect nor did
they take any soil. They politely told
China never to let it happen again
and instead of taking the 16 million
dollars, they told China to spend it on
the education in America of their boys
and girls. 1t was the American way
1--WE have been in eight wars. We
have been victorious in every one Of
them, but we didn't take a nickel or
an acre of land. That is the Ameri-
can way of doing business. We are
different from the rest, AS country
grows in population it naturally tries
to grow in size Years ago Germany
was only known as a little province
named Prussia They wanted more
territory and up until seven years ago
when the Kaiser started the world S
war, they had added twenty-siX little
countries to their dominion. Millions
were killed and thousands of dollars
worth of property destroyed by each
separate war Other nations did the
same. France really discovered Can
ada. They settled with 10000 OF their
people but England trumped up war
against them and took possession Of
Canada.
America isn't that way. When
this country was at war they fought
for liberty, humanity, justice and de
mocracy. America is the most peace
loving nation on earth today. The
European nations always want war.
Sherman was right when he said war
was hell and all Americans look at
it that way. European monarchs say
war is beautiful and is necessary,
do you know that in all those eight
wars we didn't start one of them?
The enemies fired on our flag first.
We never go into it unless we are
driven to it and after that, Oh Boy!
When we want to make our country
larger we don't declare war against
some little country and steal it from
them. We simply buy it, where any
other nation would have declared war
and taken it, We bought it and not
a man was killed, not a man wounded,
not an orphan and without a widow
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