Excerpt from With Speaker Cannon Through the Tropics: A Descriptive Story of a Voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama, Containing Views of the Speaker Upon Our Possessions, the Panama Canal and Other Great Governmental Problems, An Illustrated History and Guide Book for Statesmen, Travelers and StudHat fine quality of veneration which the American T people bestow upon Uncle Sam as a national type is shared in large part by his sturdy prototype, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In quaintness of manner, ruggedness of personality and keenness of intellect, it is questionable how far our national idol has the advantage of Mr. Cannon. Indeed, there are so many points of analogy between Uncle Sam in metaphor and Uncle Joe in propria persona, that we may readily account for the application to the Speaker of that endearing soubriquet which has become a household word in the United States.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.