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would then refuse our demand for disarmament 

 down to a police force and for a federation, in 

 whose councils we would stand high, with power 

 to enforce its decrees and banish war forever 

 from the earth. 



We have the unquenchable hatred of the mili- 

 tary caste that dominates Germany because we 

 abhor its piracy and poisoning, its breaking of 

 faith and its murder of noncombatants. We 

 have earned the contempt of nations whose sons 

 are dying for our cause because we never voiced 

 a protest against such atrocities until a pirate 

 commander made a hundred of our people walk 

 the plank. Then our protest was made, hat in 

 hand, with expressions of distinguished consider- 

 ation for the double-dyed murderer. Even Mex- 

 ico taunts us with cowardice, which is nothing — 

 unless we deserve it. 



Andrew Jackson once gave a lesson in diplo- 

 macy to our minister to Turkey : 



"Ask nothing but what is right and submit to 

 nothing that is wrong, by the Eternal!" When 

 our flag was trampled upon in Constantinople the 



