As Lord Grey says, "Recent military success and the ascendancy of Prussian militarism have reduced the advocates of anything but force to silence" in Germany.

As these words are written comes the report of the sinking of the hospital ship _Llandovery Castle_, followed by cold-blooded and deliberate murder.

The mass of German crime grows daily.
The "economic boycott" above referred to differs absolutely in its aim and character from the proposal to impose a permanent and continuous boycott on German commerce to maintain and extend British or other trade at the expense of Germany.

Phrases are sometimes used here which seem to be almost a repetition of those so dear to the Pan-German party.
"Destroy British commerce that German may replace it," is echoed back as "Destroy German commerce that British may replace it." The whole idea that the progress and extension of the trade and industry of one country is an injury to another is radically false.

A spirit of jealousy, regarding the prosperity of others as involving injury to ourselves, is a curse to the individual, to the class, or to the nation which is imbued with it.
To put these questions on the highest moral basis--on a true religious basis, if you will--is not cant, but only a recognition of the real facts.