The credulity of the American public is like some vast
lagoon lashed into agitation by the slightest breeze. A man like Dr. Homer Maerz can solemnly assure a Milwaukee audience that President Roosevelt is in fact a descendant of the Jewish family of Rossacamp which was expelled from Spain in 162o. A man like Mr. Quincy Howe can publish under his own name a work entitled England expects every American to do his duty, in which he asserts that President Hoover was a British agent in disguise, and con- tends that an Anglo-American alliance would mean the destruction of civilisation. Mr. Quincy Howe goes further ; not only does he suggest that the efforts of every English- man are devoted night and day to ensnaring the great white soul of the American people, but he contends that our ultimate purpose is to establish a military dictatorship in the United States. " An extraordinary spectacle," writes Mr. Quincy Howe, " unfolds. We shall see almost the entire ruling caste in the United States obeying British orders with an eager servility that arises from the unique character of modern American society." It would in truth be an extraordinary spectacle.
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