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SUPPLEMENT TO
[Illustration: THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD
AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT.]
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VOL. 1 MARCH 25, 1897. NO. 20
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ABOUT GREECE AND CRETE.
Do you know, my dear young friends, that you and I ought to be very glad
and grateful that we are _Americans_?
Does it ever occur to you that while millions of people in other lands are
to-day suffering unspeakably from cruelty and oppression, it is your happy
lot to live under a government which makes such wrongs impossible?
You have seen what Cuba is willing to suffer, if she can only get away
from the oppression of Spain. You have seen that she considers no
sacrifices too great, that she will surrender fortune, happiness, and life
itself, will endure lingering tortures and death in solitary dungeons; and
all this, just that she may secure the very freedom which you and I enjoy
so carelessly!
And now, from the Southeastern end of Europe, there has come another
supplicating voice, from another island.
The little island of Crete, in the grasp of a hand infinitely more cruel
than Spain's, has declared she would rather perish than remain longer at
the mercy of the Turk.
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