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Show I THE PITY OF IT. ! Let our fedings be what they may towards the British government for this war it is now waging, we cannot but feel pity for the sad and desolate homes it is daily producing in England. Nor can Ave repress, if we would, the same sympathy for the forlorn . homes in South Africa, . If, as Americans, we have prided ourselves our-selves on "Our country right or wrong, our country" we must admire the same sentiment In other peoples when it finds expression. That the masses of the English people are animated with this American sentiment is to their credit even though, and we know they do realize that Mr. Chamberlain has rushed thetm into an unjustifiable war. The very flower of the English people are being sacrificed for the sake of the rapacity of the few but let us not forget for-get that many a home is shadowed in war for loved ones forever gone homes in which our faith is the sustaining principles and loved ones who died as they had lived, in the faith of God's church. j The latest to offer himself as a victim vic-tim in South Africa is perhaps the foremost Catholic layman in the Christian Chris-tian world the Duke of Norfolk. Henry Fitzalarj Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who is the head and front of the peerage of Great Britain, outranks the Colonnas and Orsinis of Italy, and would walk before the Spanish grandeo who claims legitimate descent from Cid himself. The premier duke and the premier pre-mier earl of the kingdom, he yields to no man who is not of the blood royal. His family is the oldest Saxon nobility in England, and were anciently the Herewards. Although immensely rich, the duke is one of the hardest worked men in England. His present political office is that of postmaster general. When he was mayor of Sheffield he devoted de-voted almost all his time to his duties. As county councillor of London he was the most active member of the organ- i ization. Ha is the head of every Roman Ro-man Catholic movement in the three kingdoms, and has proudly preserved the fath of his fathers? (and his unapproachable unap-proachable position in the aristocracy) through all the vicissitudes of the centuries. cen-turies. Several ducal Howards have suffered death in the Tower, but no one forsook the faith of the famous house. The motto on his composite coat of i arms- is his inspiration. It is singularly free from the barbaric signification of the majority of such inscriptions. It reads: "Virtue, alone, Is Unconquerable." Unconquera-ble." The duke is 52 years of age. |
