Excerpt from The Tammany Legend (Tamanend): Historic Story of the Origin of the "St. Tammany" Tradition in American Government and What Democracy Owes to Aboriginal American Ideals, Based on Original Native Sources Covering, Historically, 600 A. D. To the PresentOften in the youth of this Republic, American Shirt sleeve diplomacy astonished, amused and sometimes shocked European countries. Our simplicity that called a spade a spade and demanded that answers be Yes or no, was taken as evidence of our semi-barbarism.After we grew powerful and prosperous and some what more urbane of manner, these same Europeans referred to our dollar diplomacy and deplored our lack of ideals. The World War not only failed to undeceive them but won for us the nickname of Uncle Shylock, seemingly because the war was fought on our money and we merely suggested that some of it be paid back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.