The cost of disabling and eliminating the warlike Power whose dominion is feared, or even of staving off the day of surrender, is evidently serious enough.

The merits of the alternative should be open to argument, and should, indeed, be allowed due consideration.

And any endeavour to present them without heat should presumably find a hearing.

It appears to have been much of the fault of the pacifists who speak for the Peace League that they have failed or refused to recognise these ulterior consequences of the plan which they advocate; so that they appear either not to know what they are talking about, or to avoid talking about what they know.
It will be evident from beforehand that the grave difficulty to be met in any advocacy of peace on terms of non-resistant subjection to an alien dynastic rule--"peace at any price"-- is a difficulty of the psychological order.

Whatever may be conceived to hold true for the Chinese people, such submission is repugnant to the sentiments of the Western peoples.