Show Cheap at the Price J By Herbert Kaufman T P to August 1914 we were complacent and and cocksure and poor in organization contemptuous of foreign and certain of our own intrinsic superiority careless in the chi eft h of leaders and un unobserving of their activities ready to d defy defy government on the face of the globe without bothering tp ascent the fitness of aforesaid powers to knock us into Through some indefinite quality apparently peculiar t to local climate we were thoro thoroughly convinced convince that one An American American erica equal 0 to at least two Europeans or and patronized ft tl accordingly 1 Entertaining no fears for our security we therefore to insure it We dismissed the threats of militarism with a a ac con con scenting sneer and tapped our foreheads when students of We gf c affairs suggested the enlarge enlargement ent of our military and the revision of our international policies Living in a fools fool's paradise we sipped our beloved grape ju j iu fondled the dove concentrated attention upon U market tick ticker ra a a essentially personal interests r remembered me patriotism n and duty a ev i Fourth of July to forget their existence for the rest of the ye permitted a million or so immigrants to pour annually into ar arc aie l melting pot and in various other ways manifested all t the cardi traits of the confiding and fatuous ostrich ostrich only only to lift our h hc he j from front the sands of vanity and find the universe fallen abo about f. f out our ea a aI I However much some of us may bewail the trend of ev ever ever r I providence has none the less treated us with exceeding kindness kindness Had any anyone one of a half dozen competent and equipped decided to pick a quarrel with us our chance of pf em from the row sound and whole was about that of an ice cf crt car pup on a South sea island at high meridian J We Ve are fated to spend a mountain of money and lose a mu tude tulle of men in this war but not a tenth as much or many of I as as a single handed struggle with certain possible foes might Ea I entailed M a aTo To To learn what w we have learned to get th the abili ability y of off public sifted out to discover the many points points' in which W wt went W wt vulnerable to economic and military defeat to solidify the co coto coun r to bring about a renaissance of duty and ideals these ideals these sort sori son needed corrections are being achieved upon terms and conditio conditi to render the heaviest cost war shall exact from us a very he and profitable transaction I fl Copyright 1917 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights |