article entitled "A War-Made
New America":

"The vision of a new Heaven and a new earth is still unfulfilled, but
there is a new America. The second American Revolution has occurred, and
its consequences may be as great as those of the first. The American
people are as sensitive to emotional or intellectual stimulus as a
photographic film is to light, but they are also to a remarkable degree,
a people of second thoughts. Their nerves are quick, but their
convictions are slow. The apparent change was so great and so unexpected
that at first I could not bring myself to believe in its reality or its
endurance. Unless all signs fail, however, or I fail to interpret them,
the old America, the America obedient to the traditions of the founders
of the republic, is passing away, and a new America, an America standing
armed, alert and exigent in the arena of the world-struggle, is taking
its place.

"The change is three-fold:

"I. The United States is about to take its place among the great armed
powers of the world.

"II. By the seizure and retention of territory not only not contiguous
to the borders of the republic, but remote from them, the United States
becomes a colonizing nation, and enters the field of international
rivalries.

"III. The growth of good will and mutual understanding between Great
Britain and the United States and the settlement of all pending disputes
between Canada and America, now virtually assured, constitute a working
union of the English-speaking people against the rest of the world for
common ends, whether any formal agreement is reached or not."

Mr. Norman goes on to say, after speaking of the possible American army
and navy of the present and the future:

"And look at the display of American patriotism. When the volunteers
were summoned by the President they walked on the scene as if they had
been waiting in the wings. They were subjected to a physical examination
as searching as that of a life insurance company. A man was rejected for
two or three filled teeth. They came from all ranks of life. Young
lawyers, doctors, bankers, well-paid clerks are marching by thousands in
the ranks. The first surgeon to be killed at Guantanamo left a New York
practice of $10,000 a year to volunteer. As I was standing on the steps
of the Arlington Hotel one evening a tall, thin man, carrying a large
suitcase, walked out and got on the street car for the railway station
on his way to Tampa. It was John J