The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1915. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 66, 17 July 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1915. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.

It has been well said that Truth is one of the arts of f’eace. Certainly in this most desperate campaign the Ormans have totally disregarded truth and steadily and consistently lied to their own people and to the world at large. Judging h.v recent cablegrams from France, in their lying statements as to victory where serious defeat has been their portion, Germany has not yet seen the uselessness of lying, and is endeavouring to keep up the hearts of the people, and to keep quiet those timorous States that are waiting for assurance of Germany’s loss of prestige before boldly declaring their love for the Allies, from ell accounts Berlin seems to thrive on tin* airy diet of pleasing falsehoods the mililnrv dicta tors sene up. and We are told that they are most readily assimil le ; | without the slightest signs of indigestion; foT lies have never a very wide and general currency unless there is an appetite and relish for them, a souse of

complacency in the victim "befooled Into a friendly, favourable, propitious lie. War. indeed, is so bitter an iulliction, and now that the •blustering nation who wittingly provoked hostilities fast begins to realise that, she is frustrated at all points, any such alleviations as German fancy can invent have developed into a craving; only as if in illustration of the national want of moderation, there is now an immoderate indulgence of it. A wider in an English journal neatly sums up the position of this vile and perverted people in the following terms: “There can sorely be no taste for bare reality in a nation whose only ambition was to put to death unprepared neighbours while in possession of a perfect instrument of murder, and it is this decorative tendency that will lead to their undoing so soon as the poimlace get

a glimpse behind the curtain at present quite enshrouding the truth. Germany has yet to learn that while her destiny is left to the mercies of a gang of disclaimers, she will bo rendered as nothing—she will only become a nation, or something approaching a nation, by respect for the truth. |Jut Germany has not vet learned that

lesson, and the task of teaching this stubborn and unreasoning people is a hard one.