and a strict censorship established over the Times and other rebellious organs.  The smallest criticism of the German Government would be prosecuted as sedition.  English papers would be confiscated, English editors heavily fined or imprisoned, English politicians deported to the Orkneys without trial or cause shown.  Writers on liberty, such as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Burke, Mill, and Lord Morley would be prohibited.  The works of even German authors like Schiller, Heine, and Karl Marx would be forbidden, and a pamphlet written by a German and founded on official evidence to prove the injustice and tortures to which the English people were exposed under the German system of police would be destroyed.  On our railways English gentlemen and ladies would be expected to travel second or third class, or, if they travelled first, they would be exposed to the Teutonic insolence of the dominant race, and would probably be turned out by some German official.  Public buildings would be erected in the German style.  English manufacturers and all industries would be hampered by an elaborate system of excise which would flood our markets with German goods.  Such art as England possesses would disappear.  Arms would be prohibited.  The common people, especially in Scotland and the North-West Provinces, would be encouraged to recruit in the native army under the command of German officers, and the Scottish regiments would maintain their proud tradition; but no British officer would be allowed to rise above the rank of sergeant-major.  The Territorials would be disbanded.  The Boy Scouts would be declared seditious associations.  If a party of German officers went fox-shooting in Leicestershire, and the villagers resisted the slaughter of the sacred animal, some of the leading villagers would be hanged and others flogged during the execution.  Our National Anthem would begin:  “God save our German king!  Long live our foreign king!” The singing of “Rule, Britannia,” would be regarded as a seditious act.

I am not saying that so complete a subjection of England is possible.  We may believe that in a powerful, wealthy, proud, and highly civilised country like ours it would not be possible.  All I say is that, if we assume it possible, something like that would be our condition if we were treated by the dominant Power as we ourselves are treating other races which were powerful, wealthy, proud and, in their own estimation, highly civilised when we invaded or otherwise obtained the mastery over them.  I am only trying to suggest to ourselves the mood and feelings of a subject race—­the humble and contrite heart for which we pray as God’s ancient sacrifice.  If we wish to be done by as we do, these are some incidents in the government we should wish to lie under when we were reduced beneath a dominant Power, as India and Egypt are reduced beneath ourselves.  I have not taken the worst instances of the treatment of subject races I could find.  I have not spoken of the old methods of partial or