Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-02
DEGREES BALLOT BOX
Dean of St. Paups Creates a
Storm in England.
DEMOCRACY ASILLY FETCH
Calls America Natural Center Of
Commerce, and Paints Gloomy
Future for Great Britain.
DEMOCRACY ASILLY FETCH

LONDON, December 2.-"Democracy Is
perhaps the silliest Of all fetches seri-
ously worshiped among u.s."
This utterance OF DIR. Inge, dean of
ST. Paurs, before an audience Of women
at Sion College, has started wide
spread controversy in the pulpit and
press of England. The statement was
made during the first Of a series Of lee
lures on 1.-The Cooperation Of the Church
with the Spirit of the Age
DIR. Inge. after referring to the great
achievements of the nineteenth century,
said that that great epoch was now over,
and civilization was sitting pensively in
the midst of her accumulatiors like
the figure OF Melancholia- The speaker
declared that the era of scientific dis
coveries was happily not closed, but in
all other fields signs of exhaustion were
very apparent.
America Center Of Commerce.
For the man in the street." said the
speaker, the tottering of the great in
dustrial fabric of the nineteenth CEN
fury dominated all other issues A pop
ulation Of 100000 had been massed on
two small islands, while Englishmen were
making England the workshop Of the
world" He then explained that the
natural advantages which had made
Great Britain master OF the commercial
world had either passed or were passing
and that America had now become the
natural center Of commerce.
In this country" he continued, the
twentieth century is the spendthritt heir
of the nineteenth. The Workman
seems to have resolved to make himself
comfortable by taxing capital-in plain
terms, by footing the accommodations OF
Queen Victorias reign and living on the
rates and taxes. He would have short
life and a merry one. An even worse
fate will probably overtake Australia, a
nearly empty continent within easy reach
of the industrially far more efficient yell
feet for a mere handful OF inhabitants
Gloomy Fears for England.
For these reasons cannot join in the
chorus of lay and clerical advocates, who.
when they tell us to cooperate with the
spirit of the age. really mean that We
should cooperate with the labor move
ment and the spirit Of socialism. Social
answer in New Zealand till the British
fleet ceased to patrol the ring-fence, after
which the yellow man would make snor.
work of the pampered trade unionist, put
In England the COuuitiOuSs ACoAb al "
| Ideally unfavorable for those who hope
to see dense LopL''tion with nigh ,
wages and short hours. Our soil Will
| not support them. When we cease 10
outwork and underseli other nations the
working classes must emigrate or starVe.
Decries Ballot Box Wisdom.
| DR.. Inge said that the belief that the
ballot box decided questions wisely was
only the old superstition Of the divine
right Of kings standing on its head. He
also decried what he declared to be the
soft and fabby side OF modern humah'-
tariauism. The present horror Of TAX,
ing life, he said. seemed unnatural ana
was probably only temporary. The state
of the future, he believed. would Kill
more mercifuNy. but more freely
Dr. Inse dsprsesatsss s,d the 'D mnaest OF,
% rizstion Of women has aroused, but
he is standing by his guns: although S,a ies-
low churchmen have denounced ms s.a.s-
ments regarding democracy IN unmsas-
ured terms.