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"Be hel Tenure of Kings." king, or tyrant, or emperor," said Milton in justification of another Court-martial.. the sword of justice is above him; in whose hand soever is found suficient power to avenge so great a deluge of innocent blood."

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trial is evaded the very founda- surely, we should be able to tions of European society or what gratify the German" people and is left of them) will crumble away. We shall have justified complete-bring the responsibility home to the right quarter. If the Kaiser. ly the main contention of the

were fairly acquitted we can say, Bolshevists that the present order

with pride, that the British people of things is rotten" with shams,

would glory in bis acquittal and and that Justice cannot approach turn their attention to the real those in high places except under

offenders. "But eril facts may the Red Flag.

leap to light in the record of some of our own statesmen," says an- other anxious soul. (I have heard this argument several times of late, and I commend it to the care- ful attention of those who think that all is well with us.). Surely, case. the whole Sir, in such a country would demand that our own criminals should be put in the dock, and that the seal of absolute justice should be set on the new order of things.

I have been watching the of events wiza recent course amazement; for, though I knew that the reactionary elements in England were powerful, I hardly realized that they were powerful enough to manoeuvre the Liberal Press of England into espousing the reactionary cause. The game has been played very cleverly. It began with the entirely false suggestion that democratic Amer- ica was passionately desirous of saving a dynastic scoundrel from the principles of justice upon which the American Republic was founded. I hope the Liberals of England will not be misled ar further. But the facts are too stern to be evaded. In face of the immeasurable anguish caused by criminals in high places, it would he rash under-estimate the smouldering resentmont would be roused to flame by a failure of justice now, or by the farcically unjust restriction of punishment to underlings. Let me quote Milton again on this matter, and let me suggest to our Liberals that after all. Milton is one of the purest sources of their own faith:-

that

To war upon a sing the that his instruments mag be Brought to condian punishment and thereafter to punish the instruments. and not to spare only but to defead and honour him, the author, is the strangest piece of Justice to be called Christian, and the strangest piece of Reason to be called human that ever yet was rented."

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The suggestion that we should leave innocent men to hear the

burden of cur own guilt is a strange argument for this great nation. But, if ideas of this kind can circulate among ourselves, is ît not plain that a trial, open and fair, is absolutely necessary to establish the truth, once and for all, in the sight of the whold world, and especially of Germany?

The whole people of England passionately desires the truth, passionately desires a little more honesty in our high places. It sees every day, on all sides, ghastly evidence of official cynicism. It is asked to make financial sacrifices and live ascetically while 迎 leading functionary spends thousands of pounds of the public money on his new bath room. It is asked to ex- ecure Casement for rebellion and to make Carson a Cabinet Minis- ter. It is asked to relegate our wounded to the ranks f the unwanted. It is asked to be patient while its sons and brothers are torn away (at this moment) as conscripts, sometimes in circum- stances of the utmost inhumanity. where a wife cr child is seriously ill. It cannot even secure com- mon courtesy when it inquires after the insignificant units of our million dead. And, on the top of all this, it is seriously proposed

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and nothing but the truth, just as they want it after a great railway disaster, but with infinitely more arnestness now. They are "not vindictive

mood; the moral

account must be properly settled the crime must be brought home and expiated; or the minds of millions, the whole world over, will regard the present order of things as absolutely intolerable. I believe they will prefer Lenin (bad as he may be) to those who will have proved the bideous truth of the theories of Lenin. Do we wish to prove that the Bolshevists are right, and that war, from first to last, was nothing but a conspiracy of men in high places who hold together and are only zealous for the ex- ploitation of their sheep, the people? Do we wish to complete the vile circle in which the Tsar supported Constantine and Con- stantine supported the Kaiser, to our infinite secret confusion in 1918 I do not believe our statesmen (even those of the old- school)

their will repudiate moral obligations so far. But, if į they do. they sign the death- warrant of ordered govern ment in Europe. The people cannot be tricked again.

We have heard much lately of the martyrdom of kings." The temper of the England of John) Milion, the England that has been passing its sons through the bitterest martyrdom that earth has ever known, is not one of excessive sympathy for an Ex- peror with six uninjured sous. The words that Milton wrote are among the imperishable splen- dours of the liberal literature of the world. Those who anxious for precedents must turn, in this case, to a somewhat larger air than that of Lincoln's Inn-

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the "Tenure of Kings ":-

"As for mercy, if it be to a tyrant. under which name they themselves have cited him so oft in the hearing of God, and there charged him with the spilling of more innocent blood "than ever Nero did, undoubtedly the mercy which they pretend is the mercy of wicked men, hazarding the welfare of a whole nation, to have saved one whom they so oft have termed Agag, and vilifying the blood of so many Jonathans who have saved Israel; insisting with much niceness on the unnecess- arist clause of their Covenant wrested, but not scrupling to give away the heads of many thousand Christians more......

"Tyrants being one deposed can be no more than private men, as subject to the reach of justice as any other transgressors. And certainly if men, both wise and religious, have done justice upon tyrants what way they could soonest, how much more mild and humane than is it to give them fair and open trial? To teach lawless kings and all whoso auch adore them, that not mortal man or his imperious will, bat justice. is the only true sovereign and supreme majesty on earth!

"And if the Parliament and Military Council do what they do without precedent, if it appear their duty, it argues the more wis: dom. virtue and magnanimity. that they know themselves able to be e precedent to others; who perhaps in future ages, if they be not too degenerate, will look up with honour to those exemplary deeds of their ancestors, to dare execute highest. justice on them that shell by force of arms endeav our the oppressing of their Liberty at home. That no unbrid- led potenate or tyrant, but to his the future may irre- presume such bigh and sponsible licence over mankind, to havoc and turn upside down whole kingdoms of men, as though they were no more in respect of

sorrow,

for

The appeal to "expediency.

by men has been made' whose opinions command res- But I believe that a pect.

ittle consideration will show them that their argument is short- sighted; for it leaves out of " that the man who publicly his perverse.will than a nation of account the wave of absolute; cynicism with regard to human justice that would sweep over the world. It is too late to think of

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expediency in courting the goodwill of the German people. When the German Chancellor spoke to us of "expediency million of our countrymen, now dead, trampled it underfoot for ever, in this matter of elemen tary justice. We are demanding mmoner from the Germans.. Is that expedient"? I venture to say, Six, in the invisible presence of 8,000,000: murdered men, that it would be better for England if she took ant one penny of that money and carried out the simple dictates of justice on all concerned, the haugthy and the humble. It would be infinitely better for England if we paid, the whole war debt by the sweat of our own brows rather than that we should kiss the murdress and accept their blood-money. But the choice does not lie between these two courses. There is no reason why justice should fail in

any respect

"The Kaiser? be acquitted, Says On anxious soul. Then

advocated and ordered unspeak-pismires." able atrocities on men, women, and children should be quietly ushered down a red-carpeted back stairway to complete safety and a luxurious life in a distant-per- haps but extremely pleasant

palace.

There is the precedent for making our own new precedent; acd, of one thing we may be very sure, that if this trial be under- taken in the spirit of Milton it will add immeasurably to the stature of England to-day.

THE LUCKY 148.

Sir, this crowing act of cynicism is impossible, if England is to continue. Sooner" or later, we are told, it will be necessary to

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