We must anticipate that danger, meet and destroy it.

Perhaps at this suggestion most of us will at once get restive.

Some may say with irritation: Why raise this matter?
Others on the other side may prepare forthwith to dig up the hatchet.

Is not the attitude on both sides evidence of the danger?
Does anyone suppose we can start a fight for freedom without making that danger a grimmer reality?
Who can claim it a wise policy merely for the moment to dodge it?
For that is what we do.
Let us have courage and face it.

At what I have to say let no man take offence or fright--it commits no one to anything.