Week
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contributor: W. E. Peirce
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1918-04-27
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pwv/items/1.0374052/source.json
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note: NEXT WEEK—International Labor Day The Week Published by W. E. Peirce, In the Interest ot Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Vol. XV, No. 44—15th Year 44 Victoria, B.C., Canada, April 27th, 1918 5c a copy $2.00 a year OH! CANADA 99 Plain Talking—and Talking Plainly The time has come in this fateful struggle for the plainest of plain speaking.—Colonist, April 20. FOE onco we heartily agree with our morning contemporary. "The time has come for plain speaking," and we propose to do our share of it—and to ask the Colonist to eome out straight and sny what it hits to say and not be continually making suggestions I that it cannot possibly back up. Over and over again the Colonist j has hinted at pro-German propaganda in Victoria. It did so last 1 Friday and Saturday hut it does not dare come out with a statement 1 of who the propagandists are. This is not plain speaking. It is only [insinuation. If the Colonist knows of a single ease in Victoria of [any one who is engaged in German propaganda or has received a cent I of German money let it come out boldly and say who he is and The 1 Week will join in an effort to run him to earth. The Colonist can [do nothing of tho sort and is afraid to do tlie plain speaking it talks I about. If it means by its insinuations that any of the staff of The 1 Week are pro-Germans and are receiving in any whatever German [money for their work, we brand the Colonist at onco as a liar. The Colonist is so obsessed with the idea that patriotism consists I in blindly following our lenders, no matter where or what they lead to, that it has lost all sense of discrimination. What it needs is not I so much plain speaking as a little plain thinking. Mr. William Hard, in his article, "Down With Talk! On With | the War!", in the May Metropolitan, says all rulers like to attributo j their failure to tho propaganda of thc enemy. When there is a strike I in any German munition plant, thc Germnn Government attributes it j to American p…
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: 10.14288/1.0374052
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : [publisher not identified]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text