You have compared the economic condition of France to-day with that of your country, sir.

I admit your commercial supremacy, but let me tell you this.

I would not, for the greatest boon the gods could offer me, see France in the same helpless state as England is in to-day." The Prime Minister rose also to his feet.

He wore an air of offended dignity.
"Monsieur Senn," he declared, "the spirit of militarism is in the blood of your country.

You cannot rid yourself of it in one generation or two.
But, believe me, no people's government at any time in the future, whether it be English, Russian, German, or American, will ever dare to suggest or even to dream of a war of aggression or revenge.