The representative., 1899-11-23
WORLDS GREAT UNREST

tiOns why This Looking Forward
to Revolution for Relief From
Troubles That Will Not Downs All
Is the Effect of Causes.
"No nation at the present time
stands forth alone as more than
all the rest suffering from a restless
rather among every people there seem
to be the symptoms of vague uneasi-
ness, spirit of unformulated unsatis-
faction, yearning after something
different. an unhappy, sullen, half-fierce
desire to break with the traditions of
the past. PROF. Harry Thurston Peck
in the Cosmopolitan.
This is a very strong and strange
declaration to come from one who in
all his works and writings, seems ir-
revocably welded to the dead past. But
this is only the echo of a startling fact.
The spirit of restless discomfort is en-
circling the world. This half-fierce de-
sire to break with the dead past reaches
out beyond the bounds of civilization
and Christianity, and is even now driv-
ing her tent stakes on the very borders
of savage life.
We should emphasize the fact that it
is not one nation alone that is now
rushing on to grave crisis. Obviously
it is not one nation alone that must
break away from the perils Of the hour!
Our national life hangs on questions
worldwide in their bearing.
We can readily see that the life Of one
nation may be positively endangered
by local questions of no possible inter-
est to any other nation. With the set
tlement of such local matters the peril
would cease. France Is 4 marked ex-
ample just now.
But for this far-reaching discomfort
there must be somewhere an all-per-
vading cause. There must be a s0me-
thing to take hold Of all conditions Of
life and use all existing elements to one
end. It must be some impelling force
that will turn every wheel and tighten
every band In the worlds economy. It
must be something that can be made to
push all production and all commerce
into one channel. A something that
will have It's way and no man can Ques-
ton. A something that can 60 into
the field and put its finger upon all the
productions of the earth. A something
that can go down into the mine and levy
a tax to the earth's center. A some
thing that can go into the forest and
make it's demands upon the sturdy
woodchopper. A something that can
stride over the ocean and put its finger
upon the bow of every ship-that can
go into every shop and slip a chain
on every hand-that can go into the
counting room of every merchant and
demand percentage upon all his gains.
If there is unity in the result, it is
quite essential that there must in some
essential sense be unity in the cause
If we plant thistles we reap thistles
The law in the social and moral world
is as sure as in the material. We are
brought face to face with worldwide
fact. 1t is obvious that the conditions
growing out of that fact promise startl-
ing changes in the near future.
We know that such an all-pervading
unrest could not be causeless. These
half fierce desires to break with the old
conditions could not be accidental They
are very far from sympathetic. These
demands that are already going up from
the lips of millions all around the
world, as the outcome of this unrest,
have a cause which thoughtful men will
do we'll to consider.
Some force must have operated to
unity and intensity the restless spirit of
the age, bringing what may have been
discordant or conflicting to act in har-
mony-making the nations keep step"
as they press on to the fight. Greed has
overreached herself. 1t is not good
leadership that unifies or mobilizes an
enemy's forces
Not far from generation ago few
men of vaulting ambition, INSCRIPTIONS
as to plans and with satanic selfshness,
saw q SlOdl way W CAplOlC Tue WOTlu
through it's medium of exchange By a
system fully as honest and honorable as
highway robbery, these men have per-
sistently worked to that end They
have stopped to every form of deception.
Governments have been made their
playthings. The legislative, executive
and judicial departments of our gov
ernment have quietly acquiesced in
their demands. Monopoly in the worlds
exchange was the scheme of the few to
control the production of the many.
Here was the corner stone of the worlds
exploiters. They reasoned, and reason
ed we'll, that to make this scheme eff
fective it must be worldwide in its ap-
plication. 1t must be able to put it's
directing and restraining hand on all
the production and commerce of the
world. What could do this only some
far-reaching and unified system of ex-
exchange, limited enough in quantity
and Of character to be easily con-
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