Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow marks the recurrence of that day which we have set aside for fifty years in memory of our gallant dead. The whole people with universal remembrance pays honor in its utmost to those who so freely died that their nation might remain unbound and undivided. They made the last dark sacrifice of life that this generation, and generations whose immensity we may not know, might enjoy the liberty and the strength of the great republic they had loved...
...this day in every cemetery from Arlington and Gettysburg, where those who died in battle lie now in state, to the obscure graves in Missouri and Kansas, where after battle men were buried as they fell, the crossed flags of a united nation float in remembrance of their sacrifice. The roses of victory and the lilies of defeat are indistinguishable in the strength of a common tradition, for where brave men meet, there all is victory...
...Nation has been prospering largely in a financial sense through this war, and perhaps the farmers, as a class, have prospered more than anybody, but many manufacturers also have prospered. In consequence, we have the largest pile of gold that the world ever saw, according to the statisticians, it being $3,600,000,000. A great deal of gold or gold paper is in the pockets of people all over the country and doing no good. The large banks, corporations, and capitalists are buying these bonds in large blocks, but, inasmuch as this is a democracy, every man having...
...people, those who, while possessing small individual resources yet in the aggregate possess the bulk of our wealth, must enjoy their share of the loan. Not our bankers nor our brokers, but the people, are the nation. The people must be holders of their own bonds. It is a vote of confidence in their free democracy...
...University have been called upon to give their services to their nation. They will give them to the very death. They are called on now to render the second and the lesser duty, in person and by influence to entrust their savings to the government for its uses, that our nation, in making war may lack gold no more than men. We can believe that the response will be generous, the result inspiring...