I can readily believe that there are no better people living, but I feel so strongly on the subject, nationally--so bitterly opposed to a continuance of England's sea control--so fearful that our people may be lulled into a feeling of false security, that I cannot help trying to combat, with every small means in my power, anything that seems to propagate a dangerous friendship." I received no dissenting letter superior to this.

To the writer of it I replied that I agreed with much that he said, but that even so it did not in my opinion outweigh the reasons I had given (and shall now give more abundantly) in favor of dropping our hostile feeling toward England.
My correspondent says that we differ as a race from the English as much as a celluloid comb from a stick of dynamite.

Did our soldiers find the difference as great as that?
I doubt if our difference from anybody is quite as great as that.

Again, my correspondent says that we are bound up in our own success only, and England is bound up in hers only.

I agree.