the automobile searchlights which are most effective in searching out 

 the enemy's zeppelins, thus aiding in bringing them down 



Greene and the balance of them fought 

 for "the inherited rights of Englishmen, 

 belonging," as they contended, "to Eng- 

 lishmen in America as well as to Eng- 

 lishmen in England." Those "inherited 

 rights of Englishmen" were expressed in 

 the Constitution of the United States. 



Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams 

 had a bit broader vision and view ; they 

 went a bit farther ; and Thomas Jeffer- 

 son's vision went into the Declaration of 

 Independence, which includes not only 

 the rights of Englishmen, but "the rights 

 of man," which were later embodied in 

 the Declaration of the French Republic. 



OUR DISLIKE OE ARROGANCE 



Somebody said to me the other day, 

 "You seem to be angry and in a passion 

 about this German question," and I said, 

 "I am." Next to the indignation of God 

 is the righteous indignation of a true man 

 with a soul in him and red blood, instead 

 of bluish milk, in his veins, against the 

 German assumption of German superi- 

 ority and arrogance and injury and in- 

 sult; but, above all, insult. 



I know it will sound to a lot of you 

 curious, but the thing I believe that I re- 

 sent most is what Germany said to us 

 about painting our ships like the display 

 window of a barber shop, when we could 

 go, by her allowance, once a week into 

 one port in one country, more than I do 

 even the sinking of our ships and the 

 drowning of our citizens. I think nearly 

 every gentleman resents insult more than 

 he resents injury. A man who comes 

 upon my place and goes through a path- 

 way that is not a public highway, or who 

 incidentally destroys some property that 

 is growing, I can forgive ; but one who 

 comes up to me and tells me that he is 

 going to do it whenever he pleases, be- 

 cause he is stronger than I am, is a man 

 whom I cannot forgive. 



Germany thought she was stronger 

 than we ; and she is right just now. 

 These ready nations assume a great deal 

 in connection with the unready nations. 

 We two branches of the English-speak- 

 ing race — across the sea and here — have 

 always been unready for war, thank God, 

 and shall remain so, because we think it 



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