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the railroads were not only the main means of transportation of there time but they were also used to haul goods from one side if the country to the other!
What did Jesus tell the rich young ruler to do?
sell all he had and give it to the poor.
If I was an ordinary person in my 1930s and aged 40 with a middle income job such as an 'office assistant', I would not be in favour of helping other countries.
I would personally prefer a policy of isolation from the rest of the world. Primarily, this would be because I had seen with my very won eyes, the death and destruction bought on by World War I and more importantly the Great Depression.
With millions of job less people, poverty and people barely making ends meet, I would want our government to concentrate on the welfare of our own people, rather than go to war with countries thousands of miles away.
Much of daily life in the Spanish missions in the late 1500s revolved around religion