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Introduction 5

Foreword 13

Thomas Reed, of Maine, Late Speaker of the House, on the Peace League 21

General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America 24

General U. S. Grant 27

Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American Democracy 30

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the Future of American Women 33

Benjamin Franklin, on the Privilege of Liberty 43

John Marshall, "The Expounder of the Constitution," on the Psychology of the Supreme Court 46

Daniel Webster, on "Bohemian" Statesmen 47

Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the New Eden 49

Benjamin Wade, Late Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, on President Harding 51

Don Piatt, Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington, D. C., on Prohibition and the Blue Laws 55

Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs 58

Prince Bismarck, on Germany and the Indemnities 63

Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism 70

John Marshall, on Liberty and the League 74

Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico 79

Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women 82

Stephen A. Douglass, on War Between England and America 83

General B. H. Grierson, on Japan and California 85

Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede Revolution 89

Phillips Brooks, on The Coming Ordeals 93

Psycho-phone Messages

THOMAS B. REED

Recorded September seventh, 1920.

The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability of the President.

Born with a Utopian temperament, Mr. Wilson has a Herculean passion for generalities and a Lilliputian penchant for details.

You scratched the Teutons at Versailles and found a new species of Tartar; you scratched the Japanese and found a Pacifist camouflage; you scratched the Poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut; you scratched the French and found a tiger with his claws unclipped. Your mania for scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of scissors.

Never since the Declaration of Independence and the first peal of the Liberty Bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair into so pretty a parlor as when Mr. Wilson, with the naivete of a Princeton president, faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic hand-writing on the wall at the peace table. Who was his adviser? Was it a gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of Texas? And was there no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of Clemenceau who spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of Europe? Was no one in America aware that the French Premier is a fluent speaker in English?

Mr. Wilson could speak no French, which reminds me that Jack Spr

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