International Thought

The hard-head’s answer to such suggestions is: “Nonsense! Inventors, chemists, engineers, financiers, all have to make their living, and are just as disposed to believe in their own countries as other men. Their pockets and the countries who guarantee those pockets, have first call on them.” Well! That has become the point. If neither Science nor Finance will agree to think internationally, there is probably nothing for it but to kennel-up in disenchantment, and wait for an end which can’t be very long in coming—not a complete end, of course, say—a general condition of affairs similar to that in the famine provinces of Russia.