He can step into the kingdom of manhood suffrage or government only so far as the rights of his fellow men are recognized.
Evil holds its own destruction, and nations that live by the sword perish by the sword.
For the United States to rush into the maelstrom of war, with organization of armies and the building of armaments, is to invite its own destruction.
For just one hundred years the North American continent has held the practical example of the impotency of the war-spirit where there is no war machinery.
By the Bush memorandum of agreement one hundred years ago it was provided that there should be no guns, forts, or naval ships on the greatest national boundary line of the world--4000 miles across the American continent between the United States and Canada.

Nowhere else in the world have armed men attempted invasion, and yet provoked no war, no reprisal.

What might have been the relations between the United States and Canada when the "Fenians" armed in New England and attempted a raid across the border, if there had been armies and fortifications on that border?
How securely now dwells in Canada $100,000,000 of the Bank of England reserve gold! When German representatives in the United States talk of Germany's right to invade Canada and get that gold.

Uncle Sam only smiles and frowns.

And the smile and the frown are potential.