THE EMPIRE I With the immediate promise of Home Rule many strange apologists for the Empire have stepped into the sun.

Perhaps it is well--we may find ourselves soon more directly than heretofore struggling with the Empire.
So far the fight has been confused.

Imperialists fighting for Home Rule obscured the fact that they were _not_ fighting the Empire.

Now Home Rule is likely to come, and it will serve at least the good purpose of clearing the air and setting the issue definitely between the nation and the Empire.

We shall have our say for the nation, but as even now many things, false and hypocritical, are being urged on behalf of the Empire, it will serve us to examine the Imperial creed and show its tyranny, cruelty, hypocrisy, and expose the danger of giving it any pretext whatever for aggression.