Benjamin Wade, Late Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, on President Harding 51 Don Piatt, Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington, D. C., on Prohibition and the Blue Laws 55 Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs 58 Prince Bismarck, on Germany and the Indemnities 63 Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism 70 John Marshall, on Liberty and the League (second message) 74 Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico 79 Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women 82 Stephen A. Douglass, on War Between England and America 83 General B. H. Grierson, on Japan and California 85 Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede Revolution 89 Phillips Brooks, on The Coming Ordeals 93 Psycho-phone Messages THOMAS B. REED (Late Speaker of the House) Recorded September seventh, 1920. The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability of the President. Born with a Utopian temperament, Mr. Wilson has a Herculean passion for generalities and a Lilliputian penchant for details. You scratched the Teutons at Versailles and found a new species of Tartar; you scratched the Japanese and found a Pacifist camouflage; you scratched the Poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut; you scratched the French and found a tiger with his claws unclipped. Your mania for scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of scissors. Never since the Declaration of Independence and the first peal of the Liberty Bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair into so pretty a parlor as when Mr. Wilson, with the naivete of a Princeton president, faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic hand-writing on the wall at the peace table. Who was his adviser? Was it a gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of Texas? And was there no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of Clemenceau who spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of Europe? Was no one in America aware that the French Premier is a fluent speaker in English? Mr. Wilson could speak no French, which reminds me that Jack Spratt could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean, and so betwixt them both they licked the platter clean. But a clean plate does not mean a clean slate, and the President brought one home filled with the riddle of the Sphinx. Yet the Peace Conference revealed the secret of perpetual motion and conferred a timely service, for the hubbub created by the Wilson-Lansing-House-Party at Versailles kept the Senate from passing into a trance.