EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET, SUBSCRIBERS BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD CAN HAVE 'BLACKWOOD'S PREPARING THE WAY FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD METHODS OF DECEPTION-A BILL FOR THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE INTELLI- GENT-UNFETTERED DEMOCRACY-HERR BETHMANN-HOLLWEG'S POSI- WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET, SUBSCRIBERS BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD CAN HAVE 'BLACKWOOD'S FROM Italy I passed through becomes a Cerberus of the Switzerland. The transition national honour. If you are is marked as one passes in this given to speaking the truth, it way from a country at war is not pleasant, after you have into a country at peace. One's offered all the requisite assurfirst emotion is one of relief. ances in reply to questions For war in these years of grace asked, to find that you have is emphatically a burden upon spoken in vain; to have your the spirit of the traveller. letters read, your purse empApart from the considerable tied, your shoes removed, your dislocation that there is in the body searched as if you were a conveniences of civilised life, thief. You are fortunate if the uncertainty of trains, the you are not stripped and your pre-occupation of most of those skin examined with a microwhom one meets with, the one scope. You realise what autosombre thing that obsesses oratio power means; you pertheir minds, there is active or ceive dimly what it must be veiled hostility. Every tra- like to have no personal rights whatever. pass veller is suspect. The port business is a long and wearisome affair, the formalities endless in their details. For the small functionary, the straint, and generally speaking creature of red tape, this is the treated as a potential thief, time of his life. The Jack-in- liar, or criminal, according as office feels himself exalted to the fancy moves this powerful the condition of a patriot, and personality under whose licence cause some one permits you to be here; but you can be detained, bullied, put under re You are here be VOL. CCL.-NO. MCCXV. A |