Almost certainly a Trade Unionist now "honoured'? by the most anti-Labour Government of recent times.
Very probably a conscript: compelled by Capitalism to slay and be slain.
Quite possibly an Irishman:—spared at least the possibility of murder by the Conceivably a boy of 18, or the only son of a widow, sent to the front in defiance of pledges fervent to the: strike-the-breast point:
Or—another chance—some poor fellow nerve-wrecked, or shell-shocked, executed for '"'cowardice.""
Who have organized the pageant, Politician, Press, and Pulpit. The people who helped to make the war, who prolonged the war, who*grew rich out of the war. The Man Who Won the War. These men "have, by a supreme pices of impudence, " issued special tickets to themselves to view the obsequies of their victim!
While the great pageant is thu: used for the emotional doping of tha people, other ard named victims, hundreds of thousands of them, plead' in vain for even what they had before the war. they beg in the streets, ly because the trade unions refuse to admit them. - Ed.—
I understand that all the big restaurants are providing, as the second part of the day's entertainment,—elaborate dinners with special increased prices Yours, ete..
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