The Detroit times., 1913-03-11

f1~~ tCopy right 1913. by Herbert QuiekD / ~,
No belief is more generally accepted than that
which assigns 10 peoples periods of birth You'll M
turity, decline and death. We speak OF the Americans
as being young people and the Chinese ana jay
being "old peoples We seem to carry III
our thought with regard TO the United States
Germany. England that each must in the nature
of things in sort OF social death Just rs
Hiram Perkins, Hans Schmidt and Thomas Atklhs
must pass away.
This Is a most important beef--important II II
and equally important il IL be false For the
decline of people, like the seniiity of ahselses
1t from the obligation to be strong and prosperous
II bad government, paupersm, prostitution. evil man
and morals, poverty. putocracy. oppression and
industrial slavery come with the old age Of nation
Just badness weak knees bad teeth asthma, de-
fective vision. palsy and accumulated capital eeHe
with the old OF men, then what Is the use OF
resisting those things?
Enormous inequalities in the distribution OF wealth
and power have arisen In the United States In IA CEN
fury. believe that should not have been sub
missve to those things had IL been for the deep
seated belief that they come las the country gets
older matter Of To be whole
theory OF government was opposed to the idea OF
putocracy the hand and industrial slavery on
the other: but government theory is no match for
ancient notion deep seated that II almost loses
the character OF belief and approaches instinct In It's
nature, and so have gradually been abandoning
our governmental theory Of democracy recipe for
universal prosperity Is only with the rise OF the
spirit Insurgency in the past few that the
onward march Of submission to privilege has been
checked and turned back by the old ideas embodied
in the Declaration OF Independence Again the faith
In equality Is spreading and strengthening, not in
America only, but all the world. Is II rising
tide which will ebb the goes down one
which yearly gains upon the shore and merely has
"ebb and flow conditioning it's march"
II nations but die then II will ebb, and
ebb and finally go out in the dead tide Of de-
cay.
We young nation. but really younger
than the japanese? Not at all. When the fore
fathers Of the Japanese were savages,
They made half-emergence from barbarism while
still roamed the woods with bulls horns
heads and manhood by killing in battle. But
they halted while went on, and when Perry broke
the seals OF the Island Empire had already passed
them in most OF the qualities which make up real
civilization. Once Older than we. they had become
younger" Az q matter OF real truth. 30 far as We
know all OF equal racial age-that lie, while
not bound to accept the theory OF account
Of the creation In literal form, perhaps We have no
reason believe that one people has any more ad-
vantage or disadvantage another In years than
II we are actually descended from Adam. No matter
where live how a matter OF hereditary
descent one human being has long line as an
other.
We are the cells that make up the body OF the
social organism. We short-lived and AZ long
lived in the young nation in the "old" one.
Human beings alike In all phases Of human his
tory-or, II different. the differences too slight