Country v. Govenrment

Mark Twain has some nice things to say about patriotism in 1901, things the GOP should pay attention to a hundred years later.

I looked up the references to the Philippines and learned that The Unites States took control of the Philippines in 1898 from Spain as part of the Spanish American War that began in 1896 (we also got Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba). Almost immediately thereafter the Filipinos tried to gain independence from America, which they had been trying to get from the Spanish before that war. The Philippine-American war had started and would last officially until 1902. This discussion of patriotism comes during that war.