hich has been established in our country under the pressure of war will
not cease when the great military effort upon which we are engaged and
the great moral causes which we are pursuing have been achieved. I hope,
and I do not think my hope is a vain one, that the forces which have
come together in our islands and throughout our empire may continue to
work together, not only in a military struggle, but to try to make our
country more quickly a more happy and more prosperous land, where social
justice and free institutions are more firmly established than they have
been in the past. [Cheers.] If that is so we shall not have fought in
vain at home as well as abroad.

With these hopes and in this belief I would urge you, laying aside all
hindrance, thrusting away all private aims, to devote yourselves
unswervingly and unflinchingly to the vigorous and successful
prosecution of the war. [Loud cheers.]

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THE GREAT WAR.

Speech by David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Queen's
Hall, London, Sept. 19.

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have come here this afternoon to talk
to my fellow-countrymen about this great war and the part that we ought
to take in it. I feel my task is easier after we have been listening to
the greatest war song in the world ("The March of the Men of Harlech").
[Applause.]

Why Our National Honor Is Involved.

There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of
engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater
repugnance than I have done throughout the whole of my political life.
["Hear, hear!"] There is no man either inside or outside of this room
more convinced that we could not have avoided it without national
dishonor. [Great applause.] I am fully alive to the fact that every
nation who has ever engaged in any war has always invoked the sacred
name of honor. Many a crime has been committed in its name; there are
some being committed now. All the same, national honor is a reality,
and any nation that disregards it is doomed. ["Hear, hear!"] Why is our
honor as a country involved in this war? Because, in the first instance,
we are bound by honorable obligations to defend the independence, the
liberty, the integrity, of a small neighbor that has always lived
peaceably. [Applause.] She could not have compelled us; she was weak;
but the man who declines to discharge his duty because his creditor is