to produce the best expression and administration of this public will.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 5: David Saville Muzzey, _Thomas Jefferson_, p. 311.
"Generally speaking, one may say of the German soldier that he is
normally good-natured and is not disposed to do injury to harmless
people, so long as he finds no obstacles put in his prescribed way.
But once disturbed, he becomes frightful, because he lacks any
higher capacity of discrimination; because he merely does his duty
and recognizes no such thing as individual conscience and, besides,
when he is excited becomes at once blind and super-nervous." "The
Germans are, indeed, a good-natured people, born to blind obedience
and humble willingness to let others do their thinking for them."
Wilhelm Mühlon, _The Vandal of Europe_, pages 172 and 251.]




III

ITS CONFLICT WITH THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND RELIGION


In the course of a conversation during the past winter one of the
members of the present city government of New York remarked that
although he was not a Socialist, yet he failed to see how the election
of Morris Hillquit on his un-American platform to be Mayor of New York
would have had any result except as regards the national safety and the
immediate influence upon our international relations. He added that the