Editorial page contains reprint of a long speech made in Cincinnati against the arms trade with France, and an address sent by the Germans of Washington, D. C. to the Congress. (The excuse that these arms have been sold to a so-called Republic is all the more untenable as we ourselves have not hesitated to make war against Mexico, even though it was a republic long ago.

And this has not even prevented us from conquering and annexing a part of that Republic that was more than 50 times as large as Alsace and Lorraine.