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misruled, subject to their will and ambition and build upon that dominion an empire of force upon which they fancy that they can then erect an empire of gain and commercial supremacy, an empire as hostile to the Americas as to the Europe which it will overawe, empire which will ultimately master Persia, India, and the peoples of the Far East. In such a programme our ideals, the ideals of justice and humanity and liberty, the principle of the free self-determination of nations upon which all the modern world insists, can play no part. 10 They are rejected for the ideals of power, for the principle that the strong must rule the weak, that trade must follow the flag, whether those to whom it is taken welcome it or not, that the peoples of the world are to be made subject to the patronage and overlordship of those who 15 have the power to enforce it.

That programme once carried out, America and all who care or dare to stand with her must arm and prepare themselves to contest the mastery of the World, a mastery in which the rights of common men, the rights of 20 women and of all who are weak, must for the time being be trodden under foot and disregarded, and the old agelong struggle for freedom and right begin again at its beginning. Everything that America has lived for and loved and grown great to vindicate and bring to a glorious 25 realization will have fallen in utter ruin and the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon mankind!

The thing is preposterous and impossible; and yet is not that what the whole course and action of the German armies has meant wherever they have moved? I 3 do not wish, even in this moment of utter disillusionment, to judge harshly or unrighteously. I judge only what the German arms have accomplished with unpitying thoroughness throughout every fair region they have touched.

What, then, are we to do? For myself, I am ready,

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ready still, ready even now, to discuss a fair and just and honest peace at any time that it is sincerely purposed, a peace in which the strong and the weak shall fare alike. But the answer, when I proposed such a peace, came from the German commanders in Russia, and I cannot mistake the meaning of the answer.

I accept the challenge. I know that you accept it. All the world shall know that you accept it. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all that we have to redeem the world and make it fit for free men like ourselves to live in. This now is the meaning of all that we do. Let everything that we say, my fellow countrymen, everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish, ring 15 true to this response till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear. Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether Justice and peace 20 shall reign in the affairs of men, whether Right as America conceives it or Dominion as she conceives it shall determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but one response possible from us. Force, Force to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and 25 triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.

THE AMERICAN'S CREED°

BY WILLIAM TYLER PAGE. (APRIL 6, 1918)

I BELIEVE in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the gov30 erned; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States: a perfect Union, one and in

separable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect 5 its flag, and to defend it against all enemier.

"GASSING" THE WORLD'S MIND °

WHAT A FATHER TOLD HIS SON

BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. (APRIL 24, 1918)

MY DEAR SON: Perhaps, recalling the many speeches you have heard me make upon America's duty to the whole world and the perils of our provincialism, you will think it strange that I put first the danger to civilization 10 from the current "internationalism." I can imagine what your radical young professor of social science would say to my indictment! But he lives in a world of books, and I have just come out of Russia. He knows the theory; I know the thing. And this cult of "inter- 15 nationalism," which is sweeping sentimentalists in many lands away from whatever moorings they once had, is, bluntly, a worse menace to the whole world's welfare than Prussianism itself.

It is an attempt to reduce all integers to ciphers and 20 then add them up and find the sum of perfection.

It hopes to make everybody a nobody, and then suddenly produce the perfect man and the perfect state.

Do you remember that passage in one of Stevenson's essays wherein he describes the thrifty Scotch grocer who, 25 at a sale, bought a job lot of odds and ends of liquors and then poured them into a common vat? When asked what he was making, he replied that he did not rightly know, but he thought it would turn out port! So your "internationalists" think they can mix good and bad, 30

ripe and green, black and yellow, white and brown, old and new, educated and ignorant, and out of all this queer commingling get a newer, higher order of being!

In America these sentimentalists are fond of quoting 5 the Bible verse which says that God has "made of one blood all nations. . . of the earth," forgetting that the same verse continues, "And hath determined aforetime the bounds of their habitation." The big fact of the entire Bible misses them—namely, that it is a book of a Chosen 10 People. Providence did its best by the whole world by doing its best by one peculiar nation.

It was in Russia, which is fairly rotten with this specious idea, that I came to see clearly that "internationalism" is fundamentally a vast disloyalty. It breaks old alle15 giances and offers none that are new or better. For up to date the only way a man can be loyal to the race as a whole is by loyalty to that section of it of which he is a part. In life, as in mathematics, the whole is but equal to the sum of its parts; and if certain of our present-day 20 reformers would give over trying to transform the universe and confine themselves to effecting some substantial improvement in that infinitesimal fragment of it which lives within their own clothes, they would have a task more commensurate with their powers and likelier to promote 25 the general result desired. Have you noticed how relatively few of the very vocal makers-over of the world have achieved personalities for themselves? How much greater service was done for his generation by such men as your dear old doctor grandfather, who never preached 30 a word, but lived a life and did a work and stood fast for honor and died like a gentleman and a patriot? "Internationalism" as I noticed it in Russia was, wittingly or unwittingly, only a cloak for mental and moral laziness. It meant a repudiation of clear and tangible and undoubted 35 obligations to the people of the country and to its national allies. These poor dreamers acted as if they thought

that they could build up humanity by wrecking Russia. If I am not mistaken, it will yet prove the greatest disservice ever done by one nation to the whole world. While it may be only the mist that precedes the sunrise, I very much fear that it is a fog of death.

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So for you, my boy, I prescribe patriotism - passionate, pulsing, purposeful patriotism. Be sure that every atom you contribute to the well-being of America is the most direct service you can render to the human race as a whole. Every brick built into her walls is like a founda- 10 tion stone for the entire world. Whatever you do to help your country to fulfill her highest destiny is the straightest contribution you can make to the well-being of mankind. And any act of recreancy to America is black disloyalty to all the little peoples and weak peoples who are leaning 15 upon her for support and guidance. As one who has traveled over more of this earth's surface than most men, I solemnly declare to you, my son, that the best internationalist to-day is the true American. Even in this immediate matter of the Germans, the men who are 20 facing them in the trenches are truer friends of Germany than the muddy-minded Russians who have been fraternizing with them instead of fighting them.

Seriously as I believe that this perverted doctrine of "internationalism" is a poison gas, so also am I con- 25 vinced, in the second place, that the prevalent hysteria about the destruction of life as the supreme ill is born of materialism. There is no denying that up until this year, at least, modern America had become a coddler of the carcass. Mere prolongation of physical existence had 30 come to be accepted as the supreme boon. Pain was the king of terrors. Suffering was more odious than sin. Our writers and speakers vied with one another in painting the horrors of war and the terrors of death. Destruction of life was held to be the most dreadful of evils. 35 Safety first" had become a National slogan, echoed from