Excerpt from America's Next War The wars of the past have settled great and im portant questions. They have given the world a knowledge of America's wealth, power, intelligence, conviction and courage, wherewith her institutions clothes her sons and daughters, until our cities and men are known the world over. The London Specia tor, one of Europe's greatest organs, says: 'n 0 State, however powerful, will ever again do with case any thing to which the American Republic is strongly opposed. There is no diplomatist in Europe who does not know this or who does not hold that Napoleon III. Was only sane in quitting Mexico, - and that Prince Bismarck showed his wisdom when, rather than quarrel seriously with Washington, he aban doued all pretensions in Samoa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.