hat has Germany
done for the world? Germany has shown the way to the world, even to
America, in every activity of life, in industrial organisation, in
scientific inquiry in the laboratory and in the practical application
of science to every-day life. Where do your philosophers go for their
training? To German universities where they seek to understand the
philosophy of the immortal Emanuel Kant. Where in the world has social
reform reached its highest achievement? In Germany. Where do you go for
your models for municipal government? To Germany. Mention any department
of human enterprise to-day and in that department Germany stands easily
in the lead. This man asks what has kept Europe at peace all these
years, and suggests the British Navy, the one constant menace to the
peace of Europe and to the freedom of the seas. No, if you ask who has
kept the peace of Europe I will tell you. The German Kaiser, Wilhelm II.
To him and to the Empire of which he is the glorious head Europe owes
its peace and the world its greatest blessings to-day."

When Switzer sat down a half a dozen men were on their feet demanding
to be heard. Above the din a quiet, but penetrating voice was
distinguished. "Mr. Romayne has the floor," said the Reverend Mr.
Rhye, who himself was tingling with desire for utterance. Mr. Romayne's
appearance and voice suggested the boredom of one who felt the whole
thing to be rather a nuisance.

"Ladies and Gentlemen," he began, "I must apologise for venturing to
speak at all, having so recently come to this country, though I am glad
to say that I have been received with such cordial kindness that I do
not feel myself a stranger."

"You're all right, Jack," cried a voice. "You're right at home."

"I am at home," said Jack, "and that is one thing that makes me able
to speak. Few of you can understand the feeling that comes to one who,
travelling six thousand miles away from the heart of the Empire, finds
himself still among his own folk and under the same old flag. Nor can I
express the immense satisfaction and pride that come to me when I find
here in this new world a virile young nation offering a welcome to men
of all nationalities, an equal opportunity to make home and fortune for
themselves, and find also these various nationalities uniting in the one
purpose of building solid and secure an outpost of the Empire to which
we all belong. I rise chiefly to say two things. The first is that
if Germany continues