. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . MAJOR-GENERAL ELVFELL S. CHAPTER XIVADMINISTRATION OK VS^ILLIAM IVLCKINLKY. THE CLOSINO EVENTS OK THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Affairs in Cuba and I^orto Rico—Deweys Pruiiiotiuii and Ucturii—The Philippine Situation—AguinaldosInsurrection—The War in Luzon—Tlie Phihppine Cuniuiission—Amnesty Proclaimed—Presi-dential Nominations in J900—Party Platforms—Affairs in China—The Boxer Outbreak^rheForeigners in Peking—The New Census. THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A WORLD POWER. On tlie last clay of 1898 the Spanish troops were withdrawn fro
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . MAJOR-GENERAL ELVFELL S. CHAPTER XIVADMINISTRATION OK VS^ILLIAM IVLCKINLKY. THE CLOSINO EVENTS OK THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Affairs in Cuba and I^orto Rico—Deweys Pruiiiotiuii and Ucturii—The Philippine Situation—AguinaldosInsurrection—The War in Luzon—Tlie Phihppine Cuniuiission—Amnesty Proclaimed—Presi-dential Nominations in J900—Party Platforms—Affairs in China—The Boxer Outbreak^rheForeigners in Peking—The New Census. THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A WORLD POWER. On tlie last clay of 1898 the Spanish troops were withdrawn from Havana,and on the first day of 1899 tlie stars and stripes proudly floated over thatqueen city of the American tropics. But this was only for a time. The UnitedStates was pledged to give freedom to Cuba, and no man in authority thouglitof breaking this pledge, for the honor of tlie country was involved. In the summer of 1900 the Cuban people were asked to hold a conventionand form a Constitution, with the single proviso tliat it should contain no clausesfavoring Europ
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