great  nations  are  looking  on  with  greedy  expectation  of
benefit  to  themselves  —  armed  to  the  teeth  and  calmly
awaiting  the  day  when  all  Europe  will  tremble  beneath  the
tread  of  their  vast  armies.  Is  this  a  time  for  the  people  of
the  United  States  to  agitate  themselves  about  a  "  universal
society  of  nations  "  which  is  promised  through  the  instru-
mentality of  free  trade  ?  The  duty  of  attending  to  their
own  affairs  is  sufficient  to  tax  all  their  energies*;  and  if  they
shall  so  employ  them  as  to  protect  their  various  industries
and  thus  cause  additional  development  to  the  natural
resources  they  possess,  they  will  assure  to  themselves  a
destiny  far  preferable  to  any  that  could  possibly  arise  out
of  "  entangling  alliances  "  with  foreign  peoples.
