Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

" iIdl4 tb -D0dQtilul WOTu peace IS. II rever sounded so good to me before in tie world: and I have no doubt there are millions of others to whom this one word sounded better than ever a song did before. We can imagine what a thrill it must have excited when the herald angels sang. Good will to man: on earth peacei" And when from the lips of Christ, Peace be still," quieted the raging sea it must have been a sweet sound. Peace is reformation-peace repre- ssents the calm of heaven. Kossuth loved peace but he hoped he siioul,i never He such coward as to mis- take oppression for it. It was Heaven bespoke peace to man, and to be in harmony men must bespeak peace to one another in order to bring about the millennium. Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.''
 We must do more than feel glad the war is over! We should see that we do not go right on worshipping man more than God. and by our false estimates and our ignorance, conceit and Snobbery each do our little part to promote and ripen condition which will end in just such another criminal upheaval against man and God. We have the important lesson to learn that some men who delve in the trench are nobler men than some men in high stations; and that some men dishonored in prison are better than some men we delight in honoring. and never even imagine they ought to be in jail instead of so active in the church. In other words the hypocrite must be weeded out of places high and low, This is an individual work
 men must prefer honor and honesty to ill-gotten gain and f1attery.
 The end is not yet. The demobiliz- ing Of the troops and the return of the men to the occupations Of peaN costs money, and we must still pay, pay, payl And it will be said of us as it was said of the American people in their relation to former wars: The people have borne the additional taxa tion made necessary by the war with the same degree oe patriotism that characterized the soldiers who were called to fight the country's battles North and south have mingled their best blood in a common cause and today they nave the old flag ant rejoice in a united victory. The loyal citizen with the cheer Of unity and :he sinews of wsr, like the man be- hind the gun, has played his Eart in
 
 make the one whole that has won the fight.
 , 1t is going to take a lot of honest 1 pluck and endeavor to live up to our
 sentiments, don't you think? What I fine compliments we have had for the l common fellow Gas some call him) who went to the front, and how we Lave
 expressed our admiration for him. Tie 1 jS mo f tS t.1 {1 l live our admiration-to be all we pre- tended The soldier who comes home
 whole is not likely to mind omissions l but the man who has left soma of him self Over there" who is physically less than he would have been had he | stayed home and shoItsd, has a right
 to expect something of us :n the waN
 of kindliness and honor that is as per.
 manent as the hills. He has giyer
 more than time or money, and he ra, been promised a great deal more thar
 he is likely to realize. Will you favor
 keeping his pension down and tnalzins him feel his lack of money ant | friends?
 Perhaps you have learned why wal l and hell are true synonyms. Wa
 brings no good to any country. What ever it succeeds in holding for the peo pie that is good would have been jus
 as good without war. EThe world-wa has increased crime in all the nation of the earth We have been shown
 that four years of war will destroy tn good works of a hundred Wears C
 peace; and in the destruction Of thou sands of young men it annihilate
 genius, and perhaps extinguished tn
 thinker who would have moved th world, or sfnothered the divine spar
 designed to prevent war. The most de
 plorable crime and loss of war is th
 wiping out of the young n1anh pod wit it's power for good, not the money an property loss which we are in Gange of deploring as the most serious. Sue cess in war like charity covers a mu' titude of sins.
 | Why think you do we look askanc to men of other races, often when the are more intelligent and prosperou
 than we? It is a woefully bad habi ? Do you know that the only real Amer , ican is the Indian? We are all s :, close to our forbears that we hay not rid ourselves of all their traits ( tperhaps one-half their prejudice = When this republic was formed " : were all clinging to our racial ties g and century ago there was not 3 native born citizen over 10 years | age. We are in the real melting pt
 of the world, and while it has n,
 really fused us yet, let us hope that will make us know and feel that Il man and not the race is the thin Q Heaven Is demonstrating it all tt e time, but we seem to be so blind W S are slow to comprehend. The vel
 life and perpetuation of the republ
 depends upon our fellowship and unit
 Do you remember that old sons
 When Johnny Comes Marching Hon . Again! Hurrah!" and with what fAl q Vor it used to be sung: and now u
 same spirit is in the air and the sor D may be revived again. Three nillio q hearts are certainly thrilled with ic . and expectation. The boy who ws . called has been missed, his place ' the old home has been waiting f, II him, and his home coming is one t the events of a lifetime He is n
 the same boy who went away in a if respects, for new influences are play if ing at his heartstrings, and his ccuI o try as well as his home needs hir Over two million men overseas a
 coming back into citizenship with ne e views and more pep. and they will O n ganize into ten thousand Grand Arm tt Posts and will more closely safegual D. our country from the designs of. s a cret enemies who come to Gestrt
 what better men have built up, Gt bless them! May they be a pow
 for good.
 Next to the love of God is the lo- se or home which makes permanent tl | love of country for which we nal ~ such tremendous sacrifices. Tn ErrNNIW, l. oppressed of all nations: and how V
 have thriven in the land of the bra r. and home of the free? Fro IF four million souls in 1790 to mo