Suppose he had stood on the front steps every morning before breakfast for a month after the _Lusitania_ went down and had called to the people in the same tone that he used in his note to Germany--had sounded a bugle call--would we have felt as we now feel?
What would the men in Jonesville have done then?
Would they have got their old guns down from over the doors?
Or do they so want peace and so think that they can have peace always that they've lost their spine?
Have they really been Bryanized, Fordized, Janeaddamsized, Sundayschooled, and Chautauquaed into supine creatures to whom the United States and the ideals of the Fathers mean nothing?
Who think a German is as good as an Englishman?
Who have no particular aims or aspirations for our country and for democracy?
When T.R.was in the White House he surely was an active fellow.

He called us to exercise ourselves every morning.

He bawled "Patriotism" loudly.

We surely thought we were awake during those strenuous years.

Were we really awake or did we only look upon him and his antics as a sort of good show?
All that time Bryan was peace-a-footing and prince-of-peacing.