If I could say then that the President will exert all his influence for this repeal--that would go far.

If, when he takes it up, I can say nothing, it will be practically useless for me to take up any other large plan.

This is the most important thing for us on the diplomatic horizon.
To the President Dornoch, Scotland, September 10, 1913.
DEAR MR.

PRESIDENT: I am spending ten or more of the dog days visiting the Englishman and the Scotchman in their proper setting--their country homes--where they show themselves the best of hosts and reveal their real opinions.

There are, for example, in the house where I happen to be to-day, the principals of three of the Scotch universities, and a Member of Parliament, and an influential editor.
They have, of course--I mean all the educated folk I meet--the most intelligent interest in American affairs, and they have an unbounded admiration for the American people--their energy, their resourcefulness, their wealth, their economic power and social independence.