So crushed were the people of this country by the accumulated horrors of the loss of thousands of American boys, and so burdened were they by the sense of the huge debt piled up against the future of the national treasury that they were ready to seize with avidity upon any scheme that seemed to offer or was declared to offer an absolute guarantee against the possibility of any future wars. Even parents who had no sons to give or to whom the league of nations today will be the more certain are the American people becoming that to have rushed blindly into the acceptance of such terms would have been not only extreme folly but a gross crime against this nation. It is interesting and illuminating to review the successive changes of mind of the citizens of this country with respect to the merits of the proposed league, as the blocking of its adoption proceeds week by week in the foreign relations company who had sons the shadow of danger in selfish self-protection were generous enough to shudder at the idea that any other generation of splendid young manhood should go down to its cruel death a battlefield. That any other monster should have the opportunity to engage with impunity in such a wholesale and iniquitous slaughter as that planned and executed by William Hohenzollern struck and still strikes the American mind as a calamity not to be borne and a contingency to be provided against by every power vested in the legislative and executive branches of our government. HUMAN NATURE UNCHANGED. 