Evidently it had already become a hobby on the brain of the Nationalist leader. He dogmatically proclaims that war between peoples--not the wars formerly fought by mercenary armies,--is a _crime_,--_abominable_,--and a _folly_,--_incommensurable_. True it is on the part of a State tramping upon all the principles of Justice and of International Law to gratify her guilty ambition. But honourable, glorious, is war on the part of peoples rising in their patriotic might to resist a sanguinary enemy, to defend their countries, their homes, their mothers, their wives and their children from oppression, to stem the conquering efforts of barbarous invaders. No doubt it was a crime on the part of Germany to break her pledged honour by solemn treaties, and to violate Belgium's territory. No doubt it was a crime for Germany--and one abominable--to overrun Belgium, spreading everywhere desolation, devastation, incendiarism, murder. But can it be said that the admirable and heroic resistance Belgium has opposed to her tyrannical invaders was a dastardly crime? No doubt it was a crime--and one most abominable--for Germany to order the sinking of the Lusitania and hundreds of merchant ships, without the warning required by the Law of Nations, murdering by hundreds non-combatants, children, women, and old men. But can any one be justified in asserting that, after exhausting, for the redress of such abominable wrongs, all the resources of diplomacy, the United States were committing a crime when they accepted the criminal teutonic challenge and decided to join with the British Empire, with France, Italy and their Allies, to rescue human Freedom and Civilization from the impending destruction? It is an aberration of mind--incommensurable in depth--for a publicist, or any one else, to be so blinded by prejudices, so lost to all sense of justice, as to place on the same footing, on the same level, the assailant and he who defends his all, the murderer and the victim. I positively affirm that I am not actuated by the least ill-will or ill-feeling against the Nationalist leader, in judging his course and his views as I do. Thank God, I know enough of the teachings of Christianity to wish good to all men. But I cannot help being deeply sorry and deploring that one of my French Canadian compatriots is buried in such mental darkness as to be unable to perceive the difference--incommensurable--there is in the present war between the hideous Teutonic guilt, and the commendable and meritorious defence by the Allied nations of the most sacred cause on earth:--outraged Justice.