A Government without manners.
If I could outdo these folk at their game of courtesy, and could keep our treaty faith with 'em, then I could lick 'em into the next century on the moral aspects of the Mexican Government, and make 'em look up and salute every time the American Government is mentioned.

See ?--Is there any hope ?--Such is the job exactly.

And you know what it would lead to--even in our lifetime--_to the leadership of the world_: and we should presently be considering how we may best use the British fleet, the British Empire, and the English race for the betterment of mankind.
Yours eagerly, W.H.P.
A word of caution is necessary to understand Page's references to the British democracy.

That the parliamentary system is democratic in the sense that it is responsive to public opinion he would have been the first to admit.

That Great Britain is a democracy in the sense that the suffrage is general is also apparent.