To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cutwa Dany News"
Sun-—Nature rewards all our virtues and" punishes all our sins, that is why there Is an old saying, "From penance to throne, and throne to hell." 'The latter part of the old saying comes out true when the rulers forget their duties, think themselves to be superhuman' beings, the deputies of Almighty God, sent on earth by Him only to rule, while the people are to obey their ordersimplicitly, Whether right or wrong; when they are thoroughly sold to tyranny, thoroughly cruel, and relentless in per-securing the unhappy. But as the punishments of nature, though sharp and inevitable, are sometimes delayed so long that the offender does not Fealize that the punishment is the result of the trespassing of natural law, it is necessary that reformative, deterrent and retributory punishments should be meted out to the offender. This is what the democracles are bent upon doing now.
Necessity has no law; that is why Herr Hitler bowed down before Stalin, whom he has been consider-Ing a.'man of diametrically opposite political ideologies. But the choice oes not seem to be a nice and wise tone, as he gained one at the cost of two, and one who may not be depended upon. The only. thing he wanted the democracies to announce was, "Very well, Hitler, do. anything you like with a high hand, take the Jaw in your hands, turn with the tide, repeat the same barbarous taces' ad nauseam, we will not inter-fore." But as the democracies knew that man proposes and God disposes, that what are the spiritual sins to them are the cardinal virtues to the self-willed dictator, i.e. Herr Hitler, that he was bidding welcome to one and adieu to another, that one who grasps at too much will lose all, that with legs in two boats one is sure to be drowned, that the pitcher goes to the well often but breaks at last, that an open door will tempt a saint, not to speak of Herr Hitler, that give him an inch and he will take fan ell, so they, with the words "Consiant dropping wears the stone at last, there is no play upon words now and we mean business," took up the challenge. Not given to mincing matters, they had put their meaning beyond' doubt, that anyone who Puts his faith in Hitler's word now must be a perfect moon-calf, to gain 2 point he would swear ten thousand false oaths. As he could only be dissuaded from becoming unreasonable by force, so war was inevit Now what is happening is known to the world at large. Free nations are being forcibly brought under sertitude. Their lands are being parti-ned. Civilians are being bombed and massacred, Cattle are being requisitioned. Money and materials are Doing used like water. Youths, the flower of the nations, in the prime of their lives, are being sacrificed. All of this is going on for the obstinacy im Of one man, who is wont to have his own way regardless of the consequent ces. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily have ceased to beat, and are lying at the bottom of the ' sea, tunfathomed deep, entombed in the sullen submarines, unseen, unknown. Nobody knows for what friends and the relatives he will have to mourn. All these sufferings will continue, until, unless, somebody impresses upon Herr Hitler that the thought of dominating the world is nothing but to build castles in the air. Signor Benito Mussolini will be the best for this pu pose. He is a man of mark, as he at Once guessed that the pledges he had given were broken by the Fuehrer himself, that a man is known by the company he Keeps, that it is better to be alone than in bad company, that. it is not wise to confide in a man who has deceived him once, that an unknown is better than an ill-known, that a bad way has a bad end—so he proclaimed his neutrality for the Time being—may it be for ever For humanity's sake 1 would appeal to Ti Duce to impress on Herr Hier that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, that it ig never too late to mend, that the democracies are embarked' in one boat, engaged in the same enterprise, and they are to sink or swim together—while he and his "Comrade" are used to harp their own tunes and to play their own games, but a wise man changes his: mind, but a Pride, like a wild horse, overthrows ils rider, he should very kind explain to ' Herr Hitler in. the clearest way. He should make Herr er aware that the spirits of those who take the side of right are invinciple, and they mind shots no more than peas. He should tell Herr Hi ler that it is not wise for him to foul his own nest. It will be" for his own welfare and that of the Reich, if he (Hitler) makes room for.
sounder man to serve the State—but habit becomes second nature, T Have Wares Wuar Tune Ricier Onrens May Tanor Divenexry. Shanghai, Oct. 6.
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