ar of armaments! With no reckless
rivalries and military expenditure there could be no question of the
future of mankind.

An idyllic peace would settle down upon the nations, contentedly
possessing each in its own share of the good things of life, and no
questionable ambitions would be allowed to disturb the buying and
selling of the smaller and weaker peoples. The sincerity of the wish
for universal arbitration can be best shown by England, when she,
or any of the Powers to whom she appeals, will consent to submit the
claim of one of the minor peoples she or they hold in subjection to
the Hague Tribunal. Let France submit Madagascar and Siam, or her
latest victim, Morocco, to the franchise of the Court. Let Russia
agree to Poland or Finland seeking the verdict of this bench of
appeal. Let England plead her case before the same high moral tribunal
and allow Ireland, Egypt, or India to have the law of her. Then, and
not until then, the world of little States and beaten peoples may
begin to believe that the Peace Crusade has some foundations in honour
and honesty--but not till then.

Germany has had the straightforwardness and manliness to protest that
she is still able to do her own shooting and that what she holds she
will keep, by force if need be, and what she wants she will, in her
own sure time, take, and by force too, if need be. Of the two cults
the latter is the simpler, sincerer, and certainly the less dishonest.

Irish-American linked with German-American keen-sighted hostility did
the rest. The rivalry of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft aided, and the
effort (for the time at any rate) has been wrecked, thereby plunging
England into a further paroxysm of religious despondency and grave
concern for German morals. This mood eventuated in Lord Haldane's
"week end" trip to Berlin. The voice was the voice of Jacob, in spite
of the hand of Esau. Mr. Churchill at Glasgow, showed the real hand
and the mess of pottage so amiably offered at Berlin bought no German
birthright. The Kreuz Zeitung rightly summed up the situation by
pointing out that "Mr. Churchill's testimony can now be advanced
as showing that the will of England alone comes in question as
the exponent of peace, and that England for many years past has
consciously assumed the role of an absolute and perfectly arbitrary
judge of war and peace. It seems to us all the more significant that
Mr. Churchill proposes also in the future to control, with the help of