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bosoms. As a student of history and human develop- 

 ment the writer is inclined to think that this dark cloud 

 should not be felt by South American statesmen to be 

 as thoroughly charged with mischief as some of the 

 newspaper writers in the southern cities apparently 

 think it to be. The lines of Cowper are appropriate 

 in this connection, and the writer, as a ''Pennsylvania 

 Dutchman,' commends them to those of his South 

 American friends who are at present afflicted with 

 Teutonophobia : 



Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,- 



The clouds ye so much dread 

 Are big with mercy, and shall break 



In blessings on your head. 



There is still another 'peril," which the wise men 

 have discovered in South America as in North America, 

 and that is the ;< Japanese peril." This is like the 



'German peril' characterized by industry and adapt- 

 ability to circumstances. It is frugal, turns deserts 

 into gardens, and with plodding zeal accomplishes the 

 world's work, wherever it gets a chance to address 

 itself to it. Withal it is artistic in the effects it pro- 

 duces. But of all these bug-a-boos none at the present 

 time in certain circles is taken quite as seriously as the 



'Yankee peril." While expressing grave concern for 

 the darkness of the cloud in the northern sky these 

 sapient gentlemen do not fail to recognize the fact that 

 the Monroe Doctrine has been the Palladium of their 

 liberties in the past. As they contemplate with excite- 

 ment the 'German peril' and the "Japanese terror," 

 they lay to their hearts the consolation that things 

 might be much worse than they seem, since the great 

 Republic of the North has said that it "could not view 



