http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0374031
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contributor: W. E. Peirce
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1918-06-01
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note: The Week Published by W. E. Peirce, In thc Interest ot Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Room 524 Sayward Building Phone 1473 Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 1st, 1918 5c a copy $2.00 a year THE LOUNGER'S DREAM " H Clear Conscience." WHEN Lloyd George speaks, he speaks for the whole British Empire. When he speaks wisely it is placed to our credit, and when he speaks unwisely it is placed on the debit side. We cannot evade it nor can he avoid it. As the mouthpiece of the British Empire, what he says involves the whole of us, and by it we stand or fall. For this reason wo hold that when he makes a mistake—and even his most ardent admirers must admit that this does sometimes happen—we should at least be allowed to make a protest, seeing that we' also have to share the responsibility. He says: "As we are approaching what may be the decisive struggle of the war it ist encouraging to know that we are entering it with a good heart and a clear conscience." If we as a nation are entering this final phase of the war with a "clear conscience," we would like to know just what Lloyd George means by the world "clear." So far as our intentions are concerned, no doubt Lloyd George is speaking correctly. We entered this war with the highest of motives. We wanted to mnke the world safe, and we have thrown an almost inconceivable amount of energy into the undertaking. So far so good; but what of some of tho means we have adopted ? Have we, or have we not, done things we ought not to have done, and left undone things that we ought to have done ? Hundreds of men have suffered nlmost unbelievable punishments inflicted by the governments of every part of the British Empire, simply because their conscience would not permit them to do the things that our consciences told us they ought to. Who is to judge between them and us ? Can we—dare we—claim that our consciences are clear when we imprison our Stephen Hobhouses and Gabriel Zincks for acting according to their consc…
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