Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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do as badly or worse. It is greatly to thecredit of the British that they are so clumsy at the job.They have not had the practice of the Germans at muzzlingthe press. But our press is more numerous and less tracta-ble than that of any other country. Lloyd George is as wellmeaning as Woodrow Wilson and considerably more liberalin his politics. Yet with Lloyd George as Premier with un-precedented powers the British Government is, as theEnglish papers put it, prohibiting the export of BritishLiberalism, and suppressing criticizm of the administra-tion while allowing the Tory papers to say what they pleaseand go where they like. When the question of The Nationwas brought up in the House of Commons the Premier loy-ally assumed the responsibility and defended the action ofthe War Department, altho he was obliged to confess thathe had not known of it until he read it in the papers. Now America is the only one of the belligerent countriesrun by a partizan government. The others have coalition
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Photograph bv Arthur Chapman POPPIES SQUANDER THEIR FRAGILE GOLDIN THE SILVERY ALOE-BRAKE,CORAL AND IVORY LILIES UNFOLDTHEIR DELICATE LIVES ON THE LAKE. KINGFISHERS RUFFLE THE FEATHERY SEDGE, AND ALL THE VIVID AIR THRILLS - WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS IN THE WILD-ROSE HEDGE, AND THE LUMINOUS BLUE OF THE HILLS. Sarojini Naidu in The Bird of Time June 2, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 397 cabinets. We do not in the least believe that President Wil-son would take a personal or partizan advantage of theunprecedented powers that he demands. But we greatlyfear that these powers would be abused by his subordinateshere as they have been in England and still m;»re in France,Russia and Germany. The growing distrust of the Austra-lians for England is in part due to their resentment at whatthey call the calculated perjuries with which they havebeen fed by the cables. America, now that it has enteredthe war, is in the same situation. As we said in our editorialof April 24, A Plea for Contented Ignorance, the Amer

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