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military organization seemed temporary, arising
from well-grounded fear of a neighbor, and has no
direct connection with industrialism. Britain and
America are essentially unmilitary -- that is, demo-
cratic; they develop much greater individual initia-
tive, less of enforced or group efficiency.

I now prepared also a volume on "The Two Ger-
manys" dealing with the efforts of sane men to
redeem their country, as well as with the purposes of
the Pangermanist oligarchy. But this book was
courteously declined by two publishers, who con-
sidered the people at large to be interested for the
time being in only one side.

"The Two
Ger-
manys"

Early in 1916 I became acquainted with Sir Francis
Webster, of Arbroath, Scotland, a leading Liberal
and a close friend of the late Sir Henry Campbell-
Bannerman, Lord Morley, and Francis W. Hirst.
Webster has large interests in New Mexico and
Oregon, and was spending considerable time in Cali-
fornia, where our similar views on political questions
brought us into close association. He is deeply inter-
ested in conciliation movements and in the spread of
democracy, one of the mottoes of his life being "Live
and let live." At his request -- and largely as his
composition -- I prepared a peace petition signed by
550 "hyphenated" citizens (about 400, however,
American-born), the whole representing all nation-
alities included within our great "melting pot."
Nearly half of these were German, Germany having
furnished the largest percentage of immigrants within
the generation, as a vast majority of those of British
parentage came in earlier years.

Sir
Francis
Webster

The appeal was placed in the hands of about

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 687.
    
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