Mc Ianeing, the Secretary of State, gave America's very direct
answer to Herr Michaelis on Monday in a speech to the Officers' Reserve Corps in New York. The fine words of Germany's auto- - cantle rulers were worthless; their promises, as Herr von Bethmarue Hallway, admitted in the ease of .the %Semite, were only meant to-gain time. "There was, but-one way .to restore the peace of -the world, and that was by overcomingstthe physical might of German Imperialism by force oburem." Me-warned his hearers to rid themselves of the idea that they were fighting others' battles and not their own. America was menaced like Europe by the German military despotism. Until that despotism had been made impotent and harmless for ever, no nation and no individualwould be safe. Mr. Lansin,g's plain words will probably not reach the German people, but they should be well understood by the military party, whose challenge to -America was their last and most -fatal blunder.
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