When you can do THAT, you will destroy the guilty and spare the innocent,--whereas your plan of withering a nation into a dust-heap involves the innocent along with the guilty." "War does that,"-- said Seaton, curtly.
"It does.

And your aim is to do away with all chance or possibility of war for ever.

Good! But you need to attack the actual root of the evil." Seaton's brow clouded into a frown.
"You're a careful man, Gwent,"-- he said--"And, in the main, you are right.

I know as well as you do that the license of the press is the devil's finger in the caldron of affairs, stirring up strife between nations that would probably be excellent friends and allies, if it were not for this 'licensed' mischief.

But so long as the mob read the lies, so long will the liars flourish.