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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER II: What the Postman Brought
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Pray tell me something of England's policy in South Africa, India, the Soudan, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Egypt.
The lost provinces of Denmark.

The United States when she was young and helpless.

And thus, almost to--infinitum.
"Do you not know that the foundations of ninety per cent of the great British fortunes came from the loot of India?
upheld and fostered by the great and unscrupulous East India Company?
"Come down to later times: to-day for instance.

Here in California...
I meet and associate with hundreds of Britishers.

Are they American citizens?
I had almost said, 'No, not one.' Sneering and contemptuous of America and American institutions.


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