Show in every community A 0 traitor Js is aed looked upon as a most despicable bedink the saw man who while be he pro fenes friendship for those with whom he associates and from whom ie he ri receives celias favor favors Is i at tit the same ii time ime aiding others who may be seeking to bring ruin and opples ion sion upon them is a being whose life is a travesty upon manhood and a blot on Itis torys page in i biery every age of the world the traitor has hu been anathematized and when hie his base actions hare have been discovered ere ahe he has 1 invariably y become an outcast scorned by those who have suffered from his deception and shunned by those ghosn in whose hands he has been a pliant too tool b men fen know know hov to guard aga against filst the ad vance of an avowed enemy secure in their own entrenchments ments they may repel the attacks of si open fee but the insidious workings of a being who is untrue to the common cause who will sell the rights of his confiding friends to an all ayar avar cious clous and uncompromising tion cannot always be detected and the breaches he be may open in the 66 ramparts cann cannot ot always be closed before the enemy storms the fortifications ficat ions and enters the ci citadel tade amborg amor g the most degraded classes of mankind even honor is in not wanting A gang of thieves is sometimes secure in the knowledge that not one of its members will commit a dishonorable act towards any ady of his partners in crime the traitorous soldier who in time of war goes over to the enemy and stud reveals his commanders plan of attack when caught pays the penalty with his life vet yet traitors have always existe dand doubtless aiji continue to exist there always will wili be males as long as there them are maetris to be betrayed thre there always will be oily tongued sanctimonious rascals as long as there are confiding people and scheming villains who seek the down downfall fill of pf those confiding people by and dirk darkened ened mith methods alre jiwat day discovers discover many anoai loua features might relin 1 gillbee honorable methods of war fire faie overcome to overcome come right and in the bitter W aal that is ea gendered in in the itt struggle ruggle humane methods are sis discarded the code of honor is is rad and might triumphant lilai i ia 1 a the face we of the world he the trophies of war it secures yet there is A gratifying so assurance urance that the will be a triumph of right when th asmo M k a b has as cl cleared eared away after the fi final 1 et ruggle right will be the jubilant conqueror conquer orand and vanquished might will rise rise no more por for a righteous cause men have suffered pain they have buffered ered imprisonment they have suffered death men who have been devoted to principle while they have ex cited admiration admira tiou in their oppressors because of their conscientious in in have been hurried to doom and stud all because the principle to which they were devoted was wits not bj by their persecutors and in some instances because it it was not approved by the majority today to day men are aro harried fined and imprisoned because of their devotion to principle and because they will not recant doctrines that are written on their hearts as with letters of fire they are the objects at which the envenomed shafts of popular ular hate are aimed but buchow bow V 4 much more sublime is the thi cb character a facter i of such that tha t of te man who will betray hie friend who wants 6 toabe 6 honore with the tho praises of an exasperated and intriguing minority who will tell his birthright for a mesa of pottage and aid in tho the enthralling of his fail friends ends ye yes of bis his own p parental pren A trai traitor torl 1 the epithet chills the warm blood of a patriotic heart and is the man who briage brings pain and persecution upon his friends in order to further his own personal ends any leas less than a traitor 7 no andyes and jet men are heard to eay say that unless their wish es born of egotism are gratified and their own methods approved and upheld they will perform tain acts that will not only deprive their friende jot of the righta rights they now possess but themselves of their privileges such men should be watched they are unworthy of confidence fi and their menaces instead of causing fear should excite a resolve on the part of all upright men to let them severely alone and pass their bubbling vehemence for what it is this line of action towards all such followed determinately will ultimately reduce them to their proper level which is down d own in oblivion bodeep eo deep and dark that the light of future progression and devotion to principle will never discover them to honorable men |