Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1910-01-22
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note: ry_ 0 48 0 0'lf^o''STJfTo''B'Tnfin_,irBTn S Let us show you the new \ Pocket Edition Gillette Safety Razor TERRY CASH CHEMIST fS.K. coiner Fort and Douglas j The Week A British Columbia Review, Published at Victoria, B. 6. .rs____zt_»-»**vn_T_ g HALL & WALKER Agents WELLINGTON COLLIERY COMPANY'S COAL 1232 Government St. ■aajuuuuuuuuut Telephone 83 JUUUJULJUUUUUtt Vol. VI. No. THE WEEK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1910 One Dollar Per Annum THE BRITISH ELECTIONS Even in this most westerly outpost of the great British Empire, the principal topic of discussion during the past week has been the gigantic struggle which is taking place in the Motherland, so many thousand miles away. Your modern vote- hunter abhors a straight issue, he must disguise his aims by obscuring them with many words, and thus it is that there is presented before the inhabitants of the British Isles a number of various issues on which the struggle is fought, instead of one clear-cut question. Yet, judging by the speeches of Lloyd George, Keir Hardie, Winston Churchill and the rest of the unsavoury crew, judging, we repeat, by their unpatriotic ancl unstateman-like endeavours to raise class against class, one can only conclude that the struggle in Great Britain today may be correctly described in the same language that a well- known European writer used in describing the outrages in Eussia four or five years ago, which, under the specious plea of a desire for liberty, deluged that country with blood. He spoke of that bitter contest as being "a fight between the forces •of rascality and the forces of law and order," and subsequent events have amply proved the correctness of his definition. If all English Liberals were like Lloyd George and his immediate followers, and were willing to listen and be convinced by his hysterical abuse of every man who pos- contest will be on the Conservative side, it is at the least certain that the Liberals will return to power sadly shorn of the great majority which they have…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344027
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : ""The Week"" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text