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Rh go forward, is going forward, in freedom, with heart pulsating for universal political freedom.

Human liberty can be maintained on this planet only by coordination of hand, of mind, of heart.

The heart of America is now expanding, east, west, and north; Japan and Australia, west; Canada and the British Isles to the north; France, Italy, Russia, our Allies, east! Can we forget Mexico, our nearest brother south? And she has so much to give us; fruit of the tropics, mineral and oil, wealth of a continent compressed into an isthmus, capacity for the happy, healthful, helpful labor of, not fifteen million, but fifty million people! And we so much to give her, the fruit of our political, social, mental, and machinery progress; our arts, chemistry, and financial and commercial systems! Of natural wealth she has abundance. Of helping hands, kindly direction, and organization she has woeful need. And who is neighbor to him that hath need?

After studying on both sides of the Atlantic the foundation causes for the war beginning in 1914, I presented the economic truth in The Audacious War: tariff causes, desire for territory and