and without
hurting our feelings it spends our money to relieve are all caused by the
things we daily do to each other to make the money.

The vision of the common people in America recognizes this and recognized
it instantly at the end of the war. The hearts of the men and women of
America to-day, are at once too bitter, too deep and too hopeful not to
instantly lose interest in a Red Cross which asks them to help run it as
a beautiful superficial ambulance to the evils people are doing to one
another instead of as a machine to help them not to do them.

V

MISSOURI

The best service America can render other nations to-day is be
herself--fulfill and make the most of herself.

Senator Reed of Missouri would probably agree with me in this.

Where I differ with Senator Reed is in what America should propose to do
to make the most of herself.

Senator Reed of Missouri judging from reports of his speeches in the
Senate wants America in the present distraction of nations to stop
thinking of the others, wizen up and be safe.

It seems to me that if America were to cut herself off from the rest of
the world in its hour of need and just shrivel up into thinking of
herself she would fail to fulfill herself and be like herself. She would
just be like Senator Reed of Missouri.

Nothing could be less safe for America just now than to be like Senator
Reed of Missouri.

Senator Reed puts forward a patriotism which is sincere but reckless. In
the Senate of fifty states, Reed says "I'm from Missouri." In the
congress of nations, Reed says "America ueber Alles." "The world for
America." "America for Missouri." "Missouri for Me!"

For America just at the present moment in the world it has got to belong
to, to turn away and stop being interested in the whole world and in
everybody in it and in what everybody is going to do and be kept from
doing--is like a man's shutting himself up in his own stateroom and being
interested in his own port hole in a ship that is going down. It seems
more sensible for America--even from the point of view of looking out for
herself--not to go down with Senator Reed and moon around in his
stateroom with him, but to be deeply interested in the whole ship, and in
the engines, the wheelhouse and the pumps.

Patriotism that just shuts a nation up into a private stateroom nation by
itself or that makes a nation just live with its own life preserver on,
to preserve its own life preserver, can