y of
soldier-saints.

The Government planning it was that of the late Queen Victoria with
the Duke of Wellington's advice, and the people against whom the
black-slave millions were to be loosed were the "kith and kin" of
those meditating this atrocious form of massacre. Truly, as an old
Irish proverb, old even in the days of Henry VIII. put it, "the pride
of France, the _treason of England_ and the warre of Ireland shall
never have end."

As a latter day witness of that treason, one who had suffered it from
birth to the prison cell, a dead Irishman speaks to us from the grave.
Michael Davitt in a letter to Morrison Davidson on August 2701, 1902,
thus summed up in final words what every Irishman feels in his heart:

"The idea of being ruled by Englishmen is to me the chief agony
of existence. They are a nation without faith, truth or conscience
enveloped in a panoplied pharisaism and an incurable hypocrisy. Their
moral appetite is fed on falsehood. They profess Christianity and
believe only in Mammon. They talk of liberty while ruling India and
Ireland against the principles of a constitution, professed as
a political faith, but prostituted to the interests of class and
landlord rule."

Have Englishmen in less than two generations substituted love for
the hate that Napier, Wellington, and the Queen's Ministers felt and
expressed in 1846 for the people of the United States? Is it love
to-day for America or fear of someone else that impels to the
"Arbitration Treaties" and the celebration of the "Hundred years of
Peace?"

The Anglo-American "Peace Movement" was to be but the first stage in
an "Anglo-Saxon Alliance," intended to limit and restrict all further
world changes, outside of certain prescribed continental limits, to
these two peoples alone on the basis of a new "Holy Alliance," whose
motto should be _Beati possidentes_.

Since England and America, either in fact or by reservation enjoy
almost all the desirable regions of the earth, why not bring about
a universal agreement to keep everyone in his right place, to stay
"just as we are," and to kindly refer all possible differences to an
"International Tribunal?"

Once again the British Bible was thrown into the scale, and the
unrighteousness of Germany, who did not see her way to join in the
psalm singing, was exposed in a spirit of bitter resignation and
castigated with an appropriate selection of texts. The Hague Tribunal
would be so much nicer than a w