supremacy_. That is why. Oh, yes, the cost
would be great, but we could raise it to-day all right, _and we
should get it back_.

If the struggle comes to-day, we shall win--and after it is over,
there will be abounding prosperity in the land, and no more labour
unrest.

Yes, we have no fear of Germany to-day. The only enemy we fear is
the crack-brained fanatics who prate about peace and goodwill
whilst foreign _Dreadnoughts_ are gradually closing in upon us. As
Mr. Balfour said at the Eugenic Conference the other day, man is a
wild animal; and there is no room, in present circumstances, for
any tame ones.--_John Bull_, Aug. 24, 1912.

The italics and large type are those of the original, not mine. This
paper explains, by the way, in this connection that "In the
Chancelleries of Europe _John Bull_ is regarded as a negligible
journalistic quantity. But _John Bull_ is read by a million people every
week, and that million not the least thoughtful and intelligent section
of the community, they _think_ about what they read."

One of the million seems to have thought to some purpose, for the next
week there was the following letter from him. It was given the place of
honour in a series and runs as follows:--

I would have extended your "Down with the German Fleet!" to "Down
with Germany and the Germans!" For, unless the whole ---- lot are
swept off the surface of the earth, there will be no peace. If the
people in England could only realise the quarrelsome, deceitful,
underhanded, egotistic any tyrannical character of the Germans,
there would not be so much balderdash about a friendly
understanding, etc., between England and Germany. The German is a
born tyrant. The desire to remain with Britain on good terms will
only last so long until Germany feels herself strong enough to beat
England both on sea and on land: afterwards it'll simply be "_la
bourse ou la vie_," as the French proverb goes. Provided they do not
know that there are any English listeners about, phrases like the
following can be heard every day in German restaurants and other
public places: "I hate England and the English!" "Never mind, they
won't be standing in our way much longer. We shall soon be ready."

And _John Bull_, with its million readers, is not alone. This is how the
_Daily Express_, in a double-leaded leader, teac