In many respects it would then be possible to improve their lot if only they would ask for it, then we might grant them some concessions, and bind them by compensating agreements; at least we should gain a couple of years. But the Newts demand nothing; they only increase their output and their requisitions; today at last we must really ask where for both of us it is going to end. We used to speak once of the yellow, black, or red peril; but those at least were men, and with men we can form a pretty clear opinion of what they
