David Starr Jordan epub Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government By the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy, to the Demands of a ... of Imperial Dominion (Classic Reprint)

The present volume contains eight addresses bearing on the policy of the United States, especially concerning the war withS pain and its results. The first address Lest We Forget, was delivered May 25th, l8g8, on the occasion of the graduation of the Class of i8g8, in theL elandS tanford Junior University. As this address has in a sense a historical value, being one of the very first of I nany of its kind, it is here published exactly as delivered with the change of a word or two only and the omission of a brief quotation. The second address, Colonial Expansion, delivered before the Congress of Religions at Omaha in October, 1898, is here modified by the omission of a few passages which were used also on the previous occasion. The third address, AB lindM ans Holiday, was read on February 14th, 1899, before the Graduate Club of Leland Stanford Junior University, and afterwards repeated before the congregation ofT emple Emanu-E lin San Francisco and theB erkeley Club in Oakland. It was reprinted for general circulation under the title ofT he Question of the Philippines, by the courtesy of Mr. John J. Valentine, who has also published a similar edition of Lest We Forget. The essay on the Colonial Lessons of Alaska was delivered before the University Extension Club of San Jos; that on theL essons of the Paris Tribunal, before the Congregationalist Club inS an Francisco. The essay on AC ontinuing City was delivered before theN ew Charter Association of San Francisco.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve