The Other Man's Country

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Excerpt from The Other Man's Country: An Appeal to ConscienceVarious currents of in¿uence run ning swiftly, finally uniting into an irresistible torrent, precipitated our war with Spain. Some of those cur rents were pure, others turbid. It is unnecessary now to distinguish between them further than to say that one strong popular current was pure. The nation demanded that Cuba Should be free, and that the hopeless rule of the mother country no longer should con tinne fostering a dry rot of corruption that had eaten Spain's political fabric for centuries, and which she was pow erless to cure. Those under her bad colonial dominion were suffering not from her cruel sword alone, but from an arrested moral and intellectual growth which her rule entailed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.