Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25

' W FllleIk specially r or Iue DuliOtli1''
 With the greatest war of all his tory roaring from one end of Europe to the other. and with its fourth year closing in the most notable series of Victories for the whole war falling to our allied armies, is there any reason why we farmers shouldn't, or.ce in a while, talk about the war instead oI the crops?
 As matter of fact, when two or three or more of US get together in the flesh instead of over q newspaper corner, we invariably talk about the var, first. last. and most of the time,
 My business takes me to a great many farm houses, in the course of the summer, and I come to know good deal of the way the farmers of my vicinage feel---what they think about that which has been done, and about that which is yet to do. In view of the fact that the farmers of the country have sent q larger number of soldiers to the front than any other vocation or industry. and in view of the other fact that EEon the farmers labors in producing food the tihal issue depends, it wou d seem cnIy reasonable and decent that & cor siderable amount of attention shoull be paid to their ideas.
 So far as have been able to gather, during the past season, the farm sen timent of my community is practical ly unanimous
 Something over two years ago one neighbor of Irish birth told me that he hoped England would be whipped, for England has always been tie oppressor of down -trodden peoples, he said.
 That was more than two years ago. He doesn't talk that way, now. Today service flag brightens his window and only this last week he told me, with ill-suppressed Celtic fur reson- ant in his voice, of an incident of Prussian atrocity which his son, of the Marines and Chateau Thierry, had seen and described in a letter homo. If Tim ever gets near the devils that skeWered that baby to the floor in the ruins of its dead mothers kitchen, said he. God pity them. for Tim wiil-NOT!"
 So far as can understand the sen l timents of my farmer -neighbors they do not quite grasp the full meaning of all President Wilson's famous four teen requirements for peace. He has 1 talked 8 little over our heads Fur 1 thermore, he has gone into too fine de- iails. We should have liked a little l shorter and a good deal blunter Ian guage.
 In fact, so far as I can make out 1 the sentiment of the farms is for jus | three things
 First, Unconditional Surrender. 3S which we mean exactly what Gran meant at Donelson when Buckner ask | ed him for terms. We mean the com | l,lete and entire surrender, without any conditions whatever, of all th' Boche armies and fleets and subma. rines and aviators, with all their arm! and accoutrements and munitions 1 from the last private in the rear file tt the "All Highest" blasphemer of Pots dam and his brood of thus far un scathed sons
 If it takes still another year 0 l fighting to compass this result, bet | ter fight on now and be done with ii ;han permit any loop-hole of escap' for the accursed thing to sneak ou of and begin preparations for anotae war
 The fighting power of the Beas must be destroyed; not merely i'm paired or lessened, but destroyed t it's last cancerous fibre. This can oni bo done by disarming it's army, dis mantling it's arms making works, an EUtting it under such surveillance tha it can never again put an army int the field That, as 1 hear 1t, is tn first thing the farms demand Second; That peace which should b granted after this, should not be peace by commission, nor reace b agreement, nor a peace by co1npro mise: but a Peace with Punishment (That phrase is the wording of Tn Toledo Blade, but it expresses :n thre plain words the sentiment which 1 fin universal among my farmer neigh bors.'
 For enemies who, however mistak 9nly. make war like men upon othe men l can hear no suggestion of bit terness.
 But the drowning of women an .abies by sinking unarmed passense ships is not war; it is murder Th E1en who did it and the nen wh ordered it done should be treated, no as soldiers. but as murderers.
 The smelling of open boats in whic
 helpless passengers are endeavorin to escape from torpedoed vessels, not war; it is murder.
 The sinking of hospital sn1ps ioade only with sick or wounded men an their nurses is not war: it is murdei
 The dropping of aerial bombs O. Red Cross hospitals far back of th fighting lines is not war; it is mur der.
 The bombardment form the air c schoolhouses and churches and pri rate dwellings in London and Pari and scores of other cities is net war it is murder.
 The crucifxion against blank wall of unwounded Canadian prisoner. with bayonets driven through ankle and wrists, is not war: it is murder.
 The wholesale butchery of rnarme