Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS

iO W0s HI WHICH dtIy AluiIldu D6lIl9 can tell how good or how bad any other human being is. There is a proverb: Actions speak louder than words"-they disclose many false pre- tenses-but there is no complete un- yelling of the individual either by words or action. If we were all as good as we think we are, the world would be Improved 50 per cent right away. l am not sure that most of us are as bad as we dare be, and I am quite sure none of us are more than half as good as we can be. Shakes peare was right when he said the upon 1.-the stars are few, except along idiotic lines. How we can play. the worst parts.
 It will not be many months before tourists will be going to Belgium and to northern France, to. witness what man can do as devastating force, and, like Lord Jeffrey, who about a hundred years ago visited Waterloo, they may be surprised by the coolfiess of man and the recuperating power of nature. He was astonished to see men working the ground which the bodies of 600,000 young men had ferlitized, and to witness the beauty and bounty of those landscapes. Now the world
 
 territory, ferti1ized by millions of young men slain, and those who go there will be surprised by the lavish ness with which the grass, the poppies and the cornf1owers will grow. This has already thrilled with wonder the men in the trenches. Nature kindly hides the ruin and devastation result ing from mans wiekedness.
 | must admit that was considerably thrilled the other day while reading Dr. Conan Doyle's latest book, "A New Revelation" to see the statement made that the world now ''is almost as good as it was when the Christ came to save it." Such statements make. one gasp at first but it is not strange that after four such years as the world has passed through, the lives that have been sacrificed, the property destroyed. the billions expended, the outrages committed and the burdens imposed upon the whole civilized world, that 1 the conclusion should have been reach ed that a worse world could not be conceived of. Horace Wa1pole was right when he said: "The world is a comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel!"
 We are rather upset when we. meet the fellow who informs us there is mo next life" because life is continuous and there cannot be- l and also by the other ore who tells 1 US we "are not to pass io eternal ] life. because life itself is eternal" When thoroughly investigated we find l these statements do not niange any thing but our own misconcaptions. We l are taught Tllere is no death that l what we call death is trarSforfra tio1i, I ~,.-I s1,t. IL. 1 time behind us is as incor1pu tihle 1 wandering tribesman, and it has taken 1 ages upon ages for him D develop The mental power and acumen he now 1 displays. Everything in the way oi l intelligent progress has been slow, and 1 behind man are millions of years of 1 labor and experience Eternity was is 1 and ever will be.
 l A majority of the civilized nations l of the world have sacrificed millions of men and hundreds of billions oi dollars to teach the German people | and their allies a lesson which a1,- parently has signally failed. They | have not 1earlied that ''rigllt is might,
 but are of the opinion they were
 overcome by Might. ahf; that tIleil l doctrine. Might is Right" has beer confirmed Prince Max in his las l address to the Germans of the wor1t
 talked of the glory of the German arms and of their unhrcaka5Ie spiri
 and of the continuation of 7their views The leaders are cafnouflaging, bu they are pretending to the German Epeeple that they are wholly uncon
 seious Of the violations Of internation
 al law and the ignohte crimes 0 which they lave been guilty. The. l are confirming the fact that "Non
 are so blind as those who can see
 but will not.3
 When people talk about the game o life it does not sound right to the un
 sophisticated. It is shocking state
 fnent to all who have not awakened t, the methods Of obtaining preference O. wealth. I remember we'll when it wa , annoying to me because l regarded i as an iintruth; but as my vision wa extended and my perceptions sharp
 ened, I discovered there were thous ands in the game, and that ir tool skill to play it. While ;t great man
 things have to be granted to mer; and will continue to be, there are to l many fine things which go by favor : While money has to be earned ther is too much money which is made
 by sort of trickery or understanding
 no more honest. or to be commended !. than poker, if there is no law agains 2 it, and no spirit of condemila tio awakened. Life is a game all righ with millions playing it.
 5 Bear in mind that our returnin men come back to us not as they were l but with many new impressions, wit changed views and new resolution! , They have learnei their place, has . earned it, and will assume it. Tn warrior when out of seTvlce has bee the football of the ages; but in [ Grand Army taught him he mus 2 never be out of service, his first ser s vice in peace being to protect and pro
 mote the welfare of his invalided an
 crippled comrades; and his second
 Keep all political hyenas in thei
 places. Having fought to democratiz -J the globe he is not returning to SC , i his sacrifices made q farce in his ow :. country. He is going to stand for tru | democracy at home and see that tn r spirit of it perneates our laws, an . that autocrat -apers are made to sin
 low and lie low in America.
 8 It is amusing te see the Germa 3 highbrows who did not believe in syn a pathy now playing their cards to wi
 it from the very nations which the
 nave denied sympathy, upon the pie e it was weakness and prolonged wa e Their ability to work everything t their own behalf and nothing in bt k half Of the foe brands them as the mo
 untrustworthy among men. There al
 evidences enough the German spirit . not broken. The German principle U are these: We must keep the subje
 race as uncivilized as. possible ar IS thus prevent their becoming dang, e to their handful of conquerors." ''W ,r must not look for permanent peace i;
 a result of this war. Heaven defer
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