Come over and find out." Extracts from a letter which he wrote to his brother, Mr.Henry A.Page, of Aberdeen, North Carolina, are especially interesting when placed side by side with the President's statements of this particular time.

These passages show that a two years' close observation of the Prussians in action had not changed Page's opinion of their motives or of their methods; in 1916, as in 1914, Page could see in this struggle nothing but a colossal buccaneering expedition on the part of Germany.

"As I look at it," he wrote, "our dilly-dallying is likely to get us into war.
The Germans want somebody to rob--to pay their great military bills.
They've robbed Belgium and are still robbing it of every penny they can lay their hands on.

They robbed Poland and Serbia--two very poor countries which didn't have much.

They set out to rob France and have so far been stopped from getting to Paris.