Too many of the Englishmen who have come here were bad bats from the South, so hot-footed that they burned the grass.

Then--don't forget that the Germans have a military government to the south of us--all experienced men--a great many of them unmitigated rascals, but nearly all of them clever--students of strategy and psychology and tactics--some of them brilliant men who have had to apply for colonial service because of debt or scandal.
They're overmanned where we are under-manned--backed up from home where our boys are only blamed and neglected--well supplied with troops and ammunition, where our police are kept down to the danger point and now and then even without cartridges.

The Germans have no railway yet, but they've a policy and they keep it secret.

We have a railway, and no policy except retrenchment and economy.

I'm convinced the German government has no scruples.