strangle the sea serpent whose coils enfold her shores.

Inspect the foundation of European armaments where we will, and we
shall find that the master builder is he who fashioned the British
Empire. It is that empire, its claim to universal right of pre-emption
to every zone and region washed by the waves and useful and necessary
for the expansion of the white races, and its assertion of a right to
control at will all the seas of all the world that drives the peoples
of Europe into armed camps. The policy of the Boer War is being tried
on a vaster scale against Europe. Just as England beat the Boers by
concentration camps and not by arms, by money and not by men, so she
seeks to-day to erect an armourplate barrier around the one European
people she fears to meet in the field, and to turn all Central Europe
into a vast concentration camp. By use of the longest purse she has
already carried this barrier well towards completion. One gap remains,
and it is to make sure that this opening, too, shall be closed that
she now directs all the force of her efforts. Here the longest purse
is of less avail, so England draws upon another armoury. She appeals
to the longest tongue in history--the longest and something else.

In order to make sure the encompassing of Europe with a girdle of
steel it is necessary to circle the United States with a girdle of
lies. With America true to the great policy of her great founder,
an America, "the friend of all powers but the ally of none," English
designs against European civilization must in the end fail. Those
plans can succeed only by active American support, and to secure this
is now the supreme task and aim of British stealth and skill. Every
tool of her diplomacy, polished and unpolished, from the trained
envoy to the boy scout and the minor poet has been tried in turn. The
pulpit, the bar, the press; the society hostess, the Cabinet Minister