Continually finding fault with our government and our people.

Comparing these things with England, always to our disadvantage......
"Now do you wonder we do not like England?
Am I pro-German?
I should laugh and so would you if you knew me." To this correspondent I did not reply that I wished I knew him--which I do--that, even as he, so I had frequently been galled by the rudeness and the patronizing of various specimens, high and low, of the English race.

But something I did reply, to the effect that I asked nobody to consider England flawless, or any nation a charitable institution, but merely to be fair, and to consider a cordial understanding between us greatly to our future advantage.

To this he answered, in part, as follows: "I wish to thank you for your kindly reply....

Your argument is that as a matter of policy we should conciliate Great Britain.