They have a rich country and could support themselves but for these robbers.

That's the meaning of the whole thing.
And yet we treat them as if they were honourable people.

It's only a question of time and of power when they will attack us, or the Canal, or South America.

Everybody on this side the world knows that.

And they are 'yielding' to keep us out of this war so that England will not help us when they (the Germans) get ready to attack America.
"There is the strangest infatuation in the United States with Peace--the strangest illusion about our safety without preparation." Several letters to Colonel House show the state of the British mind on the subject of the President's peace proposals: _To Edward M.House_ Royal Bath and East Cliff Hotel, Bournemouth, 23 May, 1916.
DEAR HOUSE: The motor trip that the Houses, the Wallaces, and the Pages took about a year ago was the last trip (three days) that I had had out of London; and I'd got pretty tired.