Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-14

are first class. Ireland is in truth the key to the Atlantic, the Achilles heel that renders England and the British empire vulnera ble to attack. Perhaps
 this is one of the reasons Ireland is held down.
 Of her own free will Ireland has never accepted English rule, and at no time has she sworn to uphold it. Ire land is no part of the British empire: she is a nation, with national rights of Irishmen owe England is as much all legiance as is compelled at the sword point. \ conquered nation, the con- querors have set up the king and ac- cording to human law. eXpounded in these days, the conquerors king is their king.
 Human law is one thing; Divine law is very often another, and Divine law make right. or that the law of force, even if persisted in for centuries. can not become the law of justice. In sub mission to mans law so far as she must she will acknowledge the king; since Divine law says he is not the king, she bears him no allegiance in her heart.
 Principles are like fixed stars. all ways in their unchangea ble places. Policy is the chart of the pilot who sails by their light. He shifts with the wind and the tide. His craft may be driven out of her course by a tenn pest; she may lie like a log on the waters in a calm: he tacks to the right to avoid breakers on a dangerous coast and to the left to give a wide berth to a sunken rock; but all the time he is pressing on with unsleeping watch fulness 70 the appointed port.
 So with the Divine principle of free will, which is more firmly set than the sun in the sky, and it will be when the sun has waned and gone out And it would be Imaginable If it were not pitiahle that a handful of men pass resolutions and, naming it a law, think they have outmanouevred Divine law May their little narrow visions be widened and may they be enlightened, too, that years of wrong never make a right. and that centuries are but the winsbeat of a bird in the inmensity of the eternities, that inlnensity which is Fervaded by Gods justice. The op- pressed ration is told. while the world looks on, show proper disposition, you may gain by one diplomatic stroke as much as you could win by force in a century.
 Alas, they cannot see that a nation, like a man. has soul as well as q body: that the progress of the soul is of the first importance. They would ask a nation to live in lie. deba sing its soul, that it's body may have some comforts. They are the ones who kiss their chains and pass on, under a new contented slaves. They are ilke the SeIt-COnndent man who feels that time and fate are his obsequious valets- They think. because their fore ia thers were bond slaves to a master. no one has the right to dispute their right to give away the fealty of their unborn children. and to also sign them over a Lond slave to their masters legal successor.
 Traitors co their own nation are they who sell their honor and the in rerest of their country to the oppress- Ing power We have some of this species cn American soil today who have opened the hoodgates of false hood and islander. Their masters place them in advancement and distinction and they are depicted abroad as the true representatives of the nation They pose as patriOts while they hold I job under a corrupt government who give them a fat living. But the press no longer feature them on the. front page: to find news of them. look on -he back corner on the inside page where they are put in competition with Peruna and Nuxated Iron.
 J. H. CUMMINGS.
 Norwich.