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MONDAY, JANUARY. 1Jth. 1919
‘HUMANITY WILL CLAIM ITS OWN
The present is hardly a fitting time for dealing in what the Stock
exchange calls “futures." The. world has not yet fully caught its breath
from the four years of desperate struggle into which it was so remorselessly
plunged by the self seeking powers of Europe and the developments which are
fn result from the mighty turmoil of blood and pain are only just commenc
ing to take shape and form. Even the principles for which we have fought
are still Sn that state which may be considered as undefined. "Self definition
of subject peoples," that high sounding phrase we have heard of so much In
v connection with the Allied war aims, is still a vague and indefinite, subject
f*1. which by statesmen and the press only in generalities. How or
)w whatahen vi it 4fto bq effy ted. Q^e appears to know. . I
tart TX_ ^t, tedom> of the seas and the proposed league of nations are still
* Subjects of widely varying opinions. Even the question of what punishment
Is to be meted out to those arch offenders. Germany and Austria, is still in
a hasy and nebulous state. Uncertainty is plainly the keynote of the times
and he who ventures to view the prospects of the future in more than a ten
tative light, runs a decided risk of sharing the fate of the prophet who reeks'
not of the forces of which form the main impulses of human activities.
Yet, withal, we cannot but acce.pt the view that the world is to be a
better place to live in when the new thoughts and ideals created by the war
have had an opportunity for expansion and development. Humanity has
learned much from the four years of gory struggle. Although undoubtedly
the greatest disaster that has befallen the race since biblical days, the war
has done more titan a thousand centuries of normal evolution to speed the
progress of humanity toward the still distant goal of its dreams. Human
freedom, which has been designated as the basic principle of the Allied
peace demands, is n!y the first step toward the realisation of those things
for which humanity has been seeking since the dawn of history. Granting full
freedom to all of the races of men, there are still numerous evils which will
hold mankind in the chains until they learn to wield their new freedom with
a proper regard for the welfare and rights of all. Tho institutions of the
nations, for instance, must be adjusted in such a way that equal opportuni
ties can be restored to the people.
Even here in America, the freest and most progressive of all the
world’s nations, there is room for vast Improvement in the condition of the
masses.
No one who has paid the slightest heed to the facts can fall to re
alize that existing conditions, tooth here and abroad, do not promote the wel
fare of the majority of people. It was only a few years ago that that stal
wart American, Champ Clark, voiced the memorable declaration that: "we
are steering toward a French revolution on account of the unequal oppor
tunities that the majority of people are being held to." And the same dec
laration applies in an equal or greater degree to practically every advanced
nation on the globe. Russia has already struck the great and irrevocable
blow against the institution which held her people 1n thrall for centuries and
the same thing appears to be occuring In Germany at the present time.
The war has taught humanity that government exists only through
the sufferance of the people and are fixed in power by no immutable or God
ordained law. It has also been borne to their minds that poverty and poor
wages, and Inflated prices are matters which can be relieved by government;
if not wholly, at least to the degree that all may have sufficient of the neces
sities of life, and they will one day demand with a united voice that gov
ernments shall make the welfare of the masses the first principle and con
sideration of governmental function and existence.
Having learned these things, the people who fought the war and by
whose labors and pains It was brought to a successful Issue, will not be con
tent to return to the old submerging conditions under which they lived be
fore. They will no longer be willing to accept without protest that state of
semi-poverty which has been irrevocably forced upon three fourths of the
world's peoples, regardless of their qualities of industry, by the older order
of things. They have learned that even amidst the rage and turmoils of
war. governments can so far relieve the condition of the ipasses that starvation
and unremitting drudgery are not the sole portion of those whose toll forms
the mainstay of national strength and greatness.
The war was fought to victor* In name 4f feasuslty and freedom
and when the statesmen have finished their wrangling over national and
International rights and privileges, the people will demand that the freedom
they have won shall be something more substantial than a crust and a pit
tance and the platitudes of thoee who hatten on .human Ignorance and
delusion.
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