THE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERICANISM 6l 



After peace is declared, the mental and moral fiber 

 of nations will be subjected to the supreme test. In- 

 ternal reconstruction readjustment of classes and 

 the establishment of individual rights must come. 

 Unless our people comprehend more clearly, and think 

 more logically on questions of government and human 

 rights than other peoples have in the past, is not our 

 Republic likely to follow its predecessors a flaming 

 meteor on the sky-line of oblivion? But I have an 

 abiding faith in the American people, and because of 

 them, " liberty shall not perish from the earth." 

 Should not those in position of influence and authority 

 be helping to prepare our people for this momentous 

 epoch in the world's history ? 



Our post-bellum questions will be vastly more diffi- 

 cult to understand, and hence offer a more promising 

 field for the political demagogue, and these you 

 may rest assured will be here in abundance, as un- 

 fortunately men of their fiber are not on the firing line 

 and race suicide will never reach that class. 



