"If anything happens to upset our blockading tactics, or if our attacking forces are defeated or our aeroplanes shot down, what then ?" "Then," said Brevard, slowly, "then the world had better die than survive under the abominable slavery now impending.

Already the pipe-lines have been laid to Buffalo, Cleveland, Albany and Scranton.
Already they're under way to New York City itself, and to Cincinnati.
Already other plants have been projected for Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and New Orleans, to say nothing of half a dozen in the Old World.

At this present moment, as we all sit here in this quiet room on this remote mountain-slope, the world's air is being cornered! All the atmospheric nitrogen is planned for, by Flint and Waldron, to pass under their control--and with it, every crop that grows.

All the oxygen will follow.

They're already having their domestic-service apparatus manufactured--their cold-pipe radiators, meters, evaporators and respirators.