Tho New York Times of last Sunday published an "
interview' with Mr. Boner Law, who pointed out the disadvantages under which a democratic country labours in making war. - Such .4 country, unlike autocratic Governments, is generally unpre- pared for war, and when the process of adaptation to war condi- tions is going on, the Government must suffer from very strong and open attacks at home. He reflected that if a hundred years ago England had been as democratic as she is now, the Napoleonic wars might have ended differently. ' But he was glad to say that the adaptation of England to war purposes was now practically complete. " We have changed our point of view about every- thing. We are living in a war atmosphere." Among (Abet things, the war had, in his opinion,' settled the fiscal con- troversy. He hoped, further, that the industrial change the war had brought about would be permanent. Our factories are indeed remodelled, and in our belief we shall show ourselves incapable of learning a lesson if, after the war, the -Present industrial acceleration does not leave us as a people capable of a far higher effort and a much larger output than before.
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