When you think of the solid militarism of Germany, you seem remanded to the most hopeless moment of the Roman Empire; you think nothing can break such a force; but my guide says that even in Leipsic the Socialists outnumber all the other parties, and the army is the great field of the Socialist propaganda.

The army itself may be shaped into the means of democracy--even of peace." "You're very optimistic," said Triscoe, curtly.

"As I read the signs, we are not far from universal war.

In less than a year we shall make the break ourselves in a war with Spain." He looked very fierce as he prophesied, and he dotted March over with his staccato glances.
"Well, I'll allow that if Tammany comes in this year, we shall have war with Spain.

You can't ask more than that, General Triscoe ?" Mrs.March and Miss Triscoe had not said a word of the 'battle of Leipsic', or of the impersonal interests which it suggested to the men.