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“WATCHMAN. WHAT OF THE NIGHT"?
We have l>een asked for an editorial opinion as to^
what changes this war will effect in the administration of
government in various parts of the world!
It is the same old question recorded in the prophecy of
Isaih. “Watchman, what of the night?"
The watchman answered: "The morning cometh and
also the night."
This is as much as we know ourselves.
The forces which are shaking the world to its founda
tions are too stupendous for us to measure either as to
their nature or results. In ordinary periods, when events'
are moving with the steadiness of a gieat river, we think
ourselves able to predict the next, if not the ultimate, to
morrow." But. now. the progress of the world is catas
trophic rather than evolutionary, so that the wisest and
boldest of watchmen confess with humility that they can
not tell what a day nor an hour may bring forth.
One has only to reflect upon the series of motion pic
tures that are being thrown with lightning-like rapidity
upon the Russian screen to discover his prophetic incapac
ity. The changes are kaleidoscopic. They do not seem to
possess connection with each other, hut to be heteregene
ous and discordant. Each event appears to spring from
an individual root; to burst upon the world like an isolated
explosion of a separate and individual mine. 1 hat they are
not discreet, hut intimately conjoined we know, but can
not perceive the connections. Who of us at this distance
from the so colossal scene could have predicted this recent
outburst—this revolution within a revolution? Who
would venture to pronosticate the next step to be taken hyj
this blind and staggering giant on his way to the goal of
a government of the people for the people and by the peo
ple.
And Russia is only a fragment of the world involved
in the great catastrophe! If we cannot forecast her fu
ture, how helpless we must he in trying to predict the;
world's tomorrow? This dramatic denouement in Argen-j
tina, for example, is quite enough to precipitate a series of
events as unforeseen and unpredicable as any of those
which have already happened. It may throw Sweden into
the camp of the enemy and so drag other nations into the
war, forming combinations to all present appearances in
credible and impossible.
With regard to the mighty drama lieing played upon!
the stage of life today, we feel like little gamins sitting in
the upper gallery while some such tragedy as Shakes
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peace’s “Hamlet” or Ibsen’s “Ghost” is going on. We
gaze, bewildered. The scenes are too complex; the actors
are too profound and subtle for our mental giusp. it
scenes shift. The curtain rises and falls, but what it is all
about or what ones of the actors are going to be left, or
what situation affairs are going to be in when all is oyer,
-we dinna ken.” “The morning coineth and also the night,
and we live by faith.—Ex.
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Mr. Hoover announces his intention of placing wheat
on a stable basis, but what we want to sec, is to have it on
a table basis.
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Oh. well, if Sweden gets into the fight, we won’t have
to lend her any money, anyway.
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Agent McDonald says they are talking about Seward
all along the Pacific Coast. We are on the map and every
word spoken is a boost for this city.
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Uncle Sam has at last recognized Carranza and this
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