Volume VIII 
Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1918 
Number 12 
“The past and the present are in deadly grapple and 
the peoples of the world are being done to death between 
them.” 
“There can be but one issue. The settlement must 
be final. There can be no compromise. No half-way 
decision would be tolerable. No half-way decision is con- 
ceivable.” 
“What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the 
consent of the governed and sustained by the organized 
opinion of mankind.” 
“The blinded rulers of Prussia have roused forces 
they knew little of — forces which, once roused, can never 
be crushed to earth again, for they have at their heart an 
inspiration and a purpose which are deathless and of the 
very stuff of triumph.” 
—From President Wilson’s Address, Mount Vernon, July 4th, 1918. 
