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Show Duty Before the World. Millions of gallant young men have fought for the new world. Hundred Of thousands died to establish It. If I we fail to honor the promise given to them we dishonor ourselves. What doaf n new world mean? What was j the old world like? It was a world where toll for myriads of honest workers, work-ers, men and women, purchased nothing noth-ing better than squalor, penury-, anx- lety and wretchedness a world scarred by slums and disgraced by sweating, where unemployment through ' the vicissitudes of Industry brought ! despair to multitudes of humble j homes; a world where, side by side with want, there was waste of the In- , exhaustible riches of the earth, partly through Ignorance and want of fore-thought, fore-thought, partly through entrenched i selfishness. If we renew the lease of that world we shall betray the heroic dead. We shall be guilty of the barest perfidy that ever blackened a people's fame. David Lloyd George. |