CHAPTER FOURTEEN
SOME LESSONS IN CIVILITY
Premonitions—The King of Prussia's Precious Doctrines in 1823—The Oppressed Revolutionists of Germany—Début of the Prussian Bully in Samoa—The Emperor's Fatal Birthday—The Advent of the Famous Formula: "Impossible Ultimatum, Instant Defensive Invasion and Annexation"—Leary of the Adams Takes a Hand—Schrecklichkeit Foiled by a Hurricane—"The Organization of Failure in the Midst of Hate"—Why the Kaiser Did Not Take Uncle Sam by "The Scruff of the Neck"—"If You Want a Fight, You Can Have It Now"—Roosevelt Calls the Teuton Bluff—A Case of Arbitration—Designs on the Caribbean—An Opinion by John Hay.
A survey of the actions of the Imperial German Government which are the basis of the deep-seated conviction of our Department of State that the Hohenzollern dynasty has far-reaching designs upon the integrity of American soil and the inviolability of the "American System" re-
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