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 Toward the end of the year 1920 the government of the United States had practically completed the programme adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration.
 The country was apparently tranquil.
 Everybody knows how the Tariff and Labor questions were settled.
 The war with Germany, incident on that country's seizure of the Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporary occupation of Norfold by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeated naval victories and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube's forces in the State of New Jersey.
 The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred per cent, and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station.
 The country was in a superb state of defense.
 Every coast city had been well supplied with land fortifications; the army, under the parental eye of the general staff, organized according to the Prussian system, had been increased to three hundred thousand men, with a territorial reserve of a million; and six magnificent squadrons of cruisers and battle-ships patrolled the six stations of the navigable seas, leaving a steam reserve amply fitted to control home waters.
 The gentlemen from the West had at last been constrained to acknowledge that a college for the training of diplomats was a necessary as law schools are for the training of barristers; consequently we were no longer represented abroad by incompetent patriots.
 The nation was prosperous.
 Chicago, for a moment paralyzed after a second great fire, had risen from its ruins, white and imperial, and more beautiful than the white city which had been built for its plaything in 1893.
	Toward the end of the year 1920 the government of the United States had practically completed the programme adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration.
	The country was apparently tranquil.
	Everybody knows how the Tariff and Labor questions were settled.
	The war with Germany, incident on that country's seizure of the Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporary occupation of Norfold by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeated naval victories and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube's forces in the State of New Jersey.
	The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred per cent, and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station.
	The country was in a superb state of defense.
	Every coast city had been well supplied with land fortifications; the army, under the parental eye of the general staff, organized according to the Prussian system, had been increased to three hundred thousand men, with a territorial reserve of a million; and six magnificent squadrons of cruisers and battle-ships patrolled the six stations of the navigable seas, leaving a steam reserve amply fitted to control home waters.
	The gentlemen from the West had at last been constrained to acknowledge that a college for the training of diplomats was a necessary as law schools are for the training of barristers; consequently we were no longer represented abroad by incompetent patriots.
	The nation was prosperous.
	Chicago, for a moment paralyzed after a second great fire, had risen from its ruins, white and imperial, and more beautiful than the white city which had been built for its plaything in 1893.