It is a world-clash of systems of government, a struggle to the extermination of English civilization or of Prussian military autocracy.

Precedents have gone to the scrap heap.

We have a new measure for military and diplomatic action.

Let us suppose that we press for a few rights to which the shippers have a theoretical claim.

The American people gain nothing and the result is friction with this country; and that is what a very small minority of the agitators in the United States would like.