Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certain it is that the duty of those who believe the war is wrong is fearlessly and publicly to say so, after the manner of that enlightened group in England which, with David Lloyd-George as its spokesman, rendered such loyal service to freedom and fair-play and all that England aspires to be by publicly denouncing the Boer War and boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however...
...play is a presentation of the conditions which corrupt politics. The Boss becomes the spokesman of the people he represents--giving them what they want because their wants are his wants--because he is their mouthpiece, and being like them, no better and no worse, he understands them. The scene is laid in a large American city, and the conflict is between the Boss who justifies himself to himself, and his neice who sees clearly the destruction that his altruistic intentions--altruistic though they are avaricious -- precipitate. But from blaming the Boss, she comes to understand that...