ABSTRACT
The nucleus of its population is the local business men, whose interests constitute the municipal policy and control its municipal administration. The business men who take up the local traffic in merchandizing, litigation, Church enterprise and the like, commonly begin with some share in the real estate speculation. This affords a common bond and a common ground of pecuniary interest, which commonly masquerades under the name, of local patriotism, public spirit, civic pride, and the like. In some way as this patriotism becomes involved in business. Specific disputes over specific trade opportunities become the testing points of national pride. British diplomacy has been winning them for fifteen years—in Egypt, Persia, Africa. While Germany was capturing trade, Great Britain was scoring the diplomatic victories—the greatest of them being that in Morocco. Armament is added as an "insurance" for diplomacy, and of course military preparation always calls forth military preparation.
