CONCUBINAGE IN TOGOLAND.
Had the element of sex and sexual interest been omitted from the official English programme of atro- city-mongering against Germany, the English calumniators would have deprived themselves of a weapon which is always certain to prove effective with the English public when wielded with the requisite moral indignation. Eor in addition to catering to the feverish and furtive pruriency which Puritanism and Pharisaism have implanted in the English in contradistinction to the more open and liberal Continental attitude towards things sexual, a splendid opportunity is afforded the British war propagandist for indulging in orgies of unctuous self-glorification at the expense of the immorality of others. This cue was taken up by the libellous Blue Book upon the alleged maladministration of the Germans in South-west Africa, and obediently, in answer to patriotic duty and perchance to impulses of a grosser nature, Sir Hugh Clifford follows suit.
For must not the unfitness of the German to rule his colony be demonstrated by his carnality as well as by his cruelty? The necessity is clear — and there remains only the furnishing of "proofs," illumined by the proper comment — something which can prove no obstacle to so adroit a polemicist and moralist as Sir Hugh Clifford.
We are treated to as savoury a dish of hypocrisy and Pharisaism as has ever been concocted in the Witch's Kitchen of British war propaganda. The things that
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