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lessons of all history. It is to substitute a formal settlement adjusted to a five years focus for a real settlement of a permanent character. Such shortsight, coupled with a conviction that a reign of force will bring peace and contentment, is not really to be dignified by the name 'policy;' it simply wraps up in empty phrases about 'good government' and 'equal rights' the primitive savage lust of the victor in stamping on a fallen foe, and dragging him in chains at the back of his triumphal car. A Jingo-ridden people looks neither before nor after, but lives in and for the present alone, like other brutes.