Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-20
SHOULD PROCLAIM NATIONAL.
LENT WHILE WAE tONTINl us

There arc hundreds Of thousands
who have given their Lies: there are
millions vino have given M comfort
able homes aud exchanged them for
daily communion with death. Multi
tudCS have given M those whom they
loved best. Let the nation as q whole
place its comforts, its Injuries. $ in
dulecnces, it's ciegaucies Oh the ma
tional altar c"nsecrated by such size
riices as these men have made Let
us proclaim during the war national
Lent. The nation will be better and
stronger for il. mentally and morally.
as vel! as physically.
our armies nave driven the enemy
out OF the battered villages of France
and across tGc devastated plains Of
ticiHium. They might hurl him across
tho l;hinc in battered disurray. Eu;
unless the nation rs a whole shoulders
part ~ the burden OF viGto"yy ii won't
profit lE In" triumphs. t"r i, is not
what nation gains. hu' VIVA: ., gives
that makes il great.
The rrcmier'S pcroratiou was as fol-
lows:
III In this war have paid scant
heed !" the cal. OF party. 1t is because
realized from the moment the Prus-
sian cannon hurled death at It peace
able and inonfensive Ii,;l. country that
g challenge had been sent 10 civiliza-
'i"u to decide ar issue higher than
party deeper than party. wider than
all particS--an issue upon tho settle
men; or which VIII depend the fate
OF the n!tn in this word for genera .
lions when existing parties Will have
ta!ien iik" dead leaves on the highway
These are tho issues wan, 10 keep
IN front OF Tho nation. that We shall
no. faltcv "r faint in our resolutions
Thel" is - time in every prolonged
and hcrc" war when IN the passion
and rag" Of conflict men forget the
h.@h purpose with which they entered
TINS is " struggle for International
r'Hht. intcrna tunai honor. good faith
! the channel along which peace. honor
and good will must now among men.
EMFANkMENTS AGAINST
BARBARISM HAVE. BROKEN
TIL" emhanllmcuts lahoriouslv built
| up 10y generations of men against bar
harism have been broken, and had not
the might OF Britain passed into the
! breach. Europe would have been inur
/ dated with food OF savagery and un-
| e'idleu lust OF power.
wish ii were possible 10 remove
th" misunderstanding between Great
| Britain and Ireland. which for cen
! tu'ieE has been such a source OF misnry
t" ono and an hmbarra ssment and
weakness t" The other should con
slider il a great victory FOR tho allied
forceg.
II tried once 10 remove the mieun-
dr"stendin2 between England and Ire.
land. vas ircuched with suspicion
OF freshmen ny Englishmen and OF Eng
iishmen by freshmen. and, worse and
most fn;al Of all. suspicion by Irish.
men 81 Irishmcn. 1t was uuagm;rt
OF distust which clogged my foot.
st"ps and made progress impossible
That is the real enamy Of Ireland
have always thought and said that tn,
real solution Of the Irish problem 1.
largely one OF better atmosphere
am speaking not merely for myself
but for my colleagues when say W,
shall strive 10 produce that better feel
ing
TOUCHES on POLICY
OF NEW GOVERNMENT
After dealing with the peace prob
lem Lloyd George touched upon III.
general policy Of the new government
He said the harvcsts OF the United
, states and Canada were failures an,
, that Argentina promised badly Rus
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