Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-31
IN MEMORY OF
 SOLDIER DEAD
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surprise and horror that surged through the north when it was noised abroad that Fort Sumpter had been fired upon. Since the winter at Valley gloomy, in the United States as that
 not even excepting the burning of the national capitol in 1874. But the alarming thought that soon possessed | the minds of the north was the sud
 den realization of weakness. It had | coming storm until Fort Sumpter | woke the nation up only to find that i the arsenals had been piIlaged, and the i nation wholly unprepared to defend l itseiI. This explains what seemed to | be tho b!underinS work of the north | ern armies during the first part of the i war. Suppose the boys< of '61 had been called upon to face an army l from. any European state that makes war2a trade, what in all probability 1 would have been the result? [ rem this let the natsen take warning that unfortunately We &rc still in the age of bullets and dynamite and not of palm branches and Golden Rules.
 More than fifty years have passed since Lee surrendered at Appsmattox. In this half century our country hsss gone forward by leaps in the &1es;; sciences, and general human 805ei Re- l ing. that finds no parallel isl liu:rl5sll history. But this amazing progress AAfas1 bIO4Gl4I III zdcllSSEfS to Mu1Sh We ioueht not to close our eyes. NkCHla I 1t be strange fl this material splendur l excited the cupiditv of other nations 2 ] Some day the war i:l Europe will end and 1t will find the nations inpaYer- l isheo, and it may be th1t nations ] when they are hungry will get the 1 same as hungry iI1tfi .-iduals. These nations will have the awful disci lire | and skill that comes from warfare, and perhaps the appetite. Now in ! view of these tremendous possibilities, i It sec ms to me that our country is calling just as loudly for patriotism 1 in 1915 as she did in 1881. And this l patriotism should takaC the form of l being prepared to defend the nation | in all emergenc5- It is far better for l a nation to be in a condition of watch ful doing than ''watckful waiting l We may watch so long that the do- ing will come in too late. It is for ] this reason, mainly, that patriotism is
 needed just as much today as it was hfty-fiYe years ago.
 l I would take this opportunity sir ] to mention two very important way | in which America is calling loudly 1 for the patriotic devotion of her sub Jects, and first, there should be in
 slstence on the part of every citizen of this republic that American prop
 erty and especially American lives should be protected on the high seas and in all countries with which we are at peace from malicious attack, according to the principles laid down IT international law. The safety of tlhe world will be in constant peril just
 Ps long as any nation assumes the
 tgilt to tear international law into
 11cds in order to gain some selfish
 adXantage Even pirates respected the American flag when Decatur sail- ed the seas, In the days of the Civil war when Turks took off their hats
 in honor of Farragut, the flag of our country was an emblem of power; it
 stood for a nation that was ready to defend it's rights. While I would not
 underrate the call that came to the
 brave boys of 1861 to preserve the
 Union from disruption, feel that a
 call comes no less loudly to the boys
 and young men of the present age to
 preserve their country from foreign
 domination, or even, interference.
 Again, there should be vigorous
 protest in every state of the Unior
 from Plymouth Rock to the Colder
 Gate against any foreign irterference
 with our domestic industries. The
 systematic destruction of our ware
 houses. factories and vessels i.
 enough to make every American think We may not know to what extent oul American life is honeycombed with 2 ! | spy system, but that it exists we hay, on the most credible evidence. Per.
 sonally feel that it is a short sight
 ed policy on the part of the people O
 a neutral nation to supply war iTnple
 ments to any of the belligerents, but i
 is quite within the law to do so, ant
 no one belligerent nation has any riph
 to interfere with fire brand and dy
 namite. Shall we allow this thing tt
 go on as unsuspecting France did il
 1870, and them wake up as France tlit
 to find 35,O00 spies most adroitI,
 placed at industrial, financial, and DO
 litical centres2 Let every America . cry out in protest against any secre
 system that opposes the free develop
 ment of our American life especial,
 on American soil. Let the same de
 .votion be cultivated today that hal | never been wanting throughout tn, i entire period of our life as a nation a devotion so pronounced under tn,
 guidance of Washington during tn,
 Revolutionary strife that it brough : consternation to the court of St. ames
 a devotion which later under th , genius Of the immortal Lincoln, a length. changed the hostility of Eu