It is the bottom of the whole thing.

It is the moral keystone of democracy.
Howsoever we may talk about our own rights to-day, we pay less and less respect to those of our neighbors.

The result is that to-day there is more liberty in England than here.

Liberty consists and depends upon respecting your neighbor's rights every bit as fairly and squarely as your own.
On the other hand, I wonder if the English are as good losers as we are?
Hardly anything that they could do would rub us more the wrong way than to deny to us that fair play in sport which they accord each other.

I shall not more than mention the match between our Benicia Boy and their Tom Sayers.