sight."

The names change but the spirit of imperial exploitation, whether it
call itself an empire or a democracy, does not change.

Just as the Athenian Empire, in the name of a democracy, sought to
impose servitude at sea on the Greek world, so the British Empire, in
the name of a democracy, seeks to encompass mankind within the long
walls of London.

The modern Sparta may be vanquished by the imperial democrats
assailing her from East and West. But let the world be under no
illusions.

If Germany go down to-day, vanquished by a combination of Asiatic,
African, American, Canadian and European enemies, the gain will not be
to the world nor to the cause of peace.

The mistress of the seas will remain to ensure new combinations of
enmity to prohibit the one league of concord that alone can bring
freedom and peace to the world. The cause that begot this war will
remain to beget new wars.

The next victim of universal sea-power may not be on the ravaged
fields of mid-Europe, but mid the wasted coasts and bombarded seaports
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A permanent peace can only be laid on a sure foundation. A sure
foundation of peace among men can only be found when mastery of the
sea by one people has been merged in freedom of the seas for all.