Henry Watterson: “In the East, particularly in New York, enemies lurk in your very cupboard, and strike at you from behind your chair at…”

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.

But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.

Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.

In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.