The sunset of the fading Empire would turn those waters into blood. The British Empire was not founded in peace; how, then can it be kept by peace, or ensured by peace-treaties? It was born of pillage and blood-shed, and has been maintained by both; and it cannot now be secured by a common language any more than a common Bible. The lands called the British Empire belong to many races, and it is only by the sword and not by the Book of Peace or any pact of peace that those races can be kept from the ownership of their own countries. The "Anglo-Saxon Alliance" means a compact to ensure slavery and beget war. The people who fought the greatest war in modern history to release slaves are not likely to begin the greatest war in all history to beget slaves. Let the truth be known in America that England wants to turn the great Republic of free men into die imperial ally of the great Empire of bought men, and that day die "Anglo-Saxon Alliance" gives place to the Declaration of Independence. The true alliance to aim at for all who love peace is the friendly Union of Germany, America and Ireland. These are the true United States of the world. Ireland, the link between Europe and America, must be freed by both. Denied to-day free intercourse with either, she yet forms in the great designs of Providence the natural bond to bring the old world and the new together. May 1915 lay the foundation of this--the true Hundred Years of Peace! End of Project Gutenberg's The Crime Against Europe, by Roger Casement