LIES AND LIARS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 2

LIES AND LIARS.

The liar is everywhere in modern life. We have liars in seats of trust and power, liars as statesmen, liars on our newspapers, liars in business houses, liars, liars everywhere. The modern world has built up a code of morals in this respect that is a bane to civilisation, a hindrance to progress ( and a curse to all humanity. Thej European war is the product of the liar. Child labour is the lineal descendant of the liar. All the evils, of the earth are traceable to the liar, yet; he goes on increasing more rapidly j than the nacent weed in neglected places, and every wind that blows scatters the fruits of the liar throughout the earth. The liar generally seeks gain through his lies, yet the habit grows until the lies are sometimes used where the truth would better serve the purpose. The liar does not hold with Bulwer-Lytton that "one of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth." The liar is tho product of the scramble for what the pre-sent-day world terms success. In the struggle for that success only the object is kept in view and any means that will achieve it is held to be justifiable. The strenuous protest of the moralist against the false goes entirely unheeded by the busy battler for success. Truth is a sentimental thing to be fondled by the weak and impotent members of the human family. The strong must climb to success on a ladder of lies, to be justified just as the victorious general justifies marching over a roadway paved with the dead and mangled bodies of men. What are dead men to a general? What are morals to a scrambler for success ? Truly, the liar is abroad in the land, and tlie more he achieves through his lies, the greater the respect paid him by modern society.—Exchange.