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I did not say that it sounded to
of meeting in London'a woman me like the speech of a tired and holding up poster.! **-petulant old man, but I did suggest On it were words unintelligible that Chamberlain had got us into to me, apparently relating to “sal- a mess, vation" by some means or another, “Suppose," I said, “you made a and enforced by references to texts contract for your firm with a 'no- in the Bible.
torious crook, a bankrupt whose
Now if that woman were to put word nobody trusted and whose pa- the faith and energy which make per no one would look at. Imagine her stand there into working for yourself waving the document and men and women oppressed by a grinning all over your face ́ and harsh social system, she might help shouting. "I've got it! Here it is!. to change that system. If she Triumph!”
threw herself into the struggle for "And then, a few months later, animals' rights, if she took up any when the value of the contract is form of activity for the benefit of seen to be nix and the crook has her fellow-creatures-I. include in repudiated his signature, can you that term animals, of course she see yourself whining: 'Why didn't. would get results.
he say he was going to do the dirty. on me? Why did he tell me he wasn't a crook?”
But no, she must devote herself to a kind of proselytism which has no connection whatever with right- ing human wrongs.
My friend thought this over, then shook his head. "No," he said, "we She is inflated by a mystic sense must let bygones be bygones. We've : of being above all earthly affairs. got to protect the Empire, we've got She does not really understand to fight for freedom, if necessary. what she is doing; that makes her Chamberlain's right there. Now, think it must be wonderful, She isn't he?". has a sense of being raised above the crowd.
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On the same day I called in on a friend of mine who has worked for the same firm ever since he was a boy. He gets a poor wage, his hours are long, his responsibilities heavy. Sometimes he grouses, but he is not grousing now.
He pointed to some Union Jacks in the street, put up for the French President's visit to London.
“Grand old fing it is," he declar ed. "Best in the world! Best coun- try in the world, England is. Grand!"
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Perhaps you think those two, the man and the woman, are queer spe- cimens, chat they are cranks. They are actually typical of almost the
BY HAMILTON FYFE
entire human race.
While the man is quite ready to fight for someone else's freedom, he
Nearly two hundred years ago a
He
is as senseless as willing sacrifice arms to Louis the
He would not. square deal for to give his childr than he has had. vote for these thi A vague concej
I could see that the war propa- wouldn't lift a finger for his own, Empire," which h ganda had been affecting him. (By He deludes himself into believing a ha'porth of goo the way, the ""Daily Herald"
and that he is free, even while he shows importance to hin Lord Beaverbrook's "Evening Stand- that he is enslaved by that chimera, and his home. ard” have each started a series of patriotism.
You can rouse war articles.)
"Well, you ought to know-you've famous writer, Smollett, described that we ought to. been to all the other countries, a meeting he had with a French sol- thing a long wayTM haven't you?" I teased him.
dier who had been frequently
not clearly unders "Never been out of this, except wounded and at last disabled in the make him revolt a to Ostend once for the day. But wars of Louis, the Fourteenth. This and absurdity of I've read about them. Now you soldier spoke of-that King with the
social system here have travelled a lot and I'm sure utmost reverence and pride.
The gets sulky.
of them Bolshevik you agree with me.• England is the had got nothing out of the wars but finest of the lot, isn't that so?” -- pain and mutilation. But he stuck I shook my head and, like the to it that it was an honour to suf- character in Tennyson's poem, fer for his glorious majesty! "smiling, put the question by." He Voltaire about the same time told State schoolmaster went on in the same vein. I could of an English sailor who boasted improvement in th see it was all due to the defiant that his country was "the land of ditions is disgrao speech which Chamberlain had been the free" and sang about It when tic." They have s forced by threats of rebellion in his he was half-drunk, in spite of the ble imaginations to own Party to make a few evenings fact that he himself had been seiz incitements to sup before.
ed by the naval press-gang and at a distance whic forced to serve against his will in thing about.“ Presently h
·got round to this. a man-of-war!
Examples: The | "Splendid man!” he said. "Told Hit-
Hundred Years; W
All through his have been deluded have been taught
ler he wouldn't stand any more of That friend of mine is no more land and France, t it. That's the stuff! Bit about free than the sailor was; his readi- William the Third freedom was fine, eh!”
ness to fight in an Imperialistic war coming to later t
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