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Are Educated Jingoes Honest?
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get their convictions honestly, though these convictions can hardly be termed intellectual.

The case of others is different. Persons of more ability, accustomed in their business or profession to weigh evidence and to discriminate, have, in many instances, refused to apply these reasonable tests to the evidence submitted to them on this issue. How many of us have had the experience of offering an anti-war book or pamphlet to an educated Jingo, and receiving the reply: 'This is pro-Boer. I will not read it.' The editors of Jingo journals have felt quite safe in continuing to repeat the most audacious falsehoods long after they have been exposed, simply because they knew that their readers, though perfectly aware that journals existed which gave another side, would not look at papers which opposed the war. Now, this attitude of mind has been the rule, and not the exception, among the classes which boast their education and intelligence, and it is an attitude of dishonesty. Many well-informed Jingoes have been perfectly aware that certain business interests in South Africa have a powerful hold upon the press, and upon the kinds of information which reach the people of this country, and yet they have not cared to

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