fear foreign
invasion. Even should a foreign power successfully attack her and
usurp a portion of her territories, a supposition which is most
improbable, would the enemy be able to hold what he seized? History
shows that no conquered country has ever been successfully and
permanently kept without the people's consent, and there is not the
least chance that the Americans will ever consent to the rule of a
foreign government.

It is to be hoped that the United States will not follow the example of
other nations and unduly increase her armaments, but that she will take
the lead in the universal peace movement and show the world that a
great power can exist and maintain her position without force of arms.
I am aware that general disarmament is not popular among statesmen,
that it has been denounced by an eminent authority as a "will-o'-the
wisp", that arbitration has been styled a "Jack-o'-lantern", but this
is not the first time a good and workable scheme has been branded with
opprobrious names. The abolition of slavery was at one time considered
to be an insane man's dream; now all people believe in it. Will the
twentieth century witness the collapse of our present civilization?

Why are the world's armaments constantly increasing? To my mind it is
due to two causes, one of which is mistrust. One nation begins to
build Dreadnaughts, another does the same through fear and mistrust.
The second cause is that it is the fashion of some nations to follow
the example of others that they may preserve their position as great
naval powers. But it is unnecessary for the United States to show such
mistrust or to follow such fashion. She should rather, as becomes a
great and powerful nation, take an independent course of her own. If
she sets the example other nations in due time will follow her. The
peace of the world will be more surely guarded, and America will win
the approbation, the respect, and the gratitude of all peace-loving
people.

Chapter 3. American Government

Democratic principles were enunciated by Chinese philosophers as long
ago as 4,500 years, and from time to time various emperors and
statesmen have endeavored to apply them to the government of China, but
these principles in all their minute details have been exemplified only
by the wisdom of the statesmen in the West. In the United States they
are in full swing. As China has now become a Republic, not in name
only but in fact, it will be we