The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-06

acted as if they were the government, as it the,
had right to distribute, as government favors
things that belonged to the people.
1t is only lately that have discovered th
elementary truth. Government is nothing more OF
less than ourselves.
mcnt, and it doesn't make any difference whether
you arc woman a We are all the govern
| mcnt, each and every one OF
In other words, government comes out OF ouI
natures and out of our human relations.
When Robinson Crusoc found himself on q
desert island government for him was a simple
matter. far more simple than it is for 1t was
also complex matter for him, too, far more COM
| pick than IT is for
! Robinson Crusoc looked about him and found
that he was master of all he surveyed. And yet
| of all he surveyed he was the slave.
| TO show his mastery he must prove his mas
terry. He must bring all he surveyed under his
| control.
First, however, he must achieve mastery over
| himself.
In his Loneliness Robinson Crusoc must have
been tempted to lie down in despair.
His great battle with himself. Here. under
new and peculiar conditions, he repeated the his
tory OF the race For the first great battle of every
| man is with hmsef-and the last great battle.
Conquerine despair the beginning OF the
new life of Robinson Crusoc. Then came the prac-
curing food and facilities for cooking.
1t was not till Robinson Crusoe had established
! mastery over tho forces about him that his life
became simple. Then it became marvelously simple.
For he had only himself to think of.
He was the government. 1t was a government
OF sell, a republic of ono.
When The Man Friday appeared. government
became more complex for Robinson Crusoc
Where there had been only to consider there
were two now, with the relations resulting from
the living together of two human beings. All kinds
OF small complexities resulted. Robinson Crusoc
found himself master. As wise master, he treated
his servant with kindness. Consequently he secured
good results. If he had treated his servant with
involved in difficulties.
He wise enough to recognize that even
servant had rights. Those rights he respected and
by respecting those rights he secured advantages
for himself.
Meanwhile. remember. there was no authority
delivered to Robinson Crusoc from the clouds, or
from State house or city hall, even from
The complexities came out of the human beings
themselves.
As society evolves out OF tho kind OF society
that Robinson Crusoc and his Man Friday repre-
sent, it takes all kinds OF and surprising
complexities. 1t is constantly changing. New con-
siderations come up, resulting from new influences
affecting lives. These influences may result
from invention, bringing oonvcnicnces. or
from other ideas creating religious or theories
OF living, from vast number OF
MEANWHILE remember. it is always the people
who arc themselves creating the changes, making
the rcadjustments. developing their social organ
cations.
1t took many centuries for human beings to dis
their independence in the social organization
There were those who succeeded in making them
selves powerful than Others in taking ad
vantage OF their power, and establishing ways and
means by which thei. advantage might be trans
mitted to their children and their childrens chill
dren.
This kind OF selfshncss. always masquerading
,,,Ia nj ind Cd buu m
beings to the importance Of the individual, an
individual to the worth of his contribution to So
ciey through his mere ext stence, to the wonder u
possibilities that existed in him whether he be-
lorged to the class that had the advantage the
mass that had the disadvantage.
In France Rousseau was the first to catch the
car OF the world, and proclaim the truth.
The world listened: Many people were shocked
Others applauded Slowly and silently, with the |
subtle and invisible power Of suggestion, Rous-
seaus philosophy kept working in the minds OF
men:
1t helped to bring two revolutions. the
American Revolution and the French Revolution. |
1t enabled men to prove to the world that
democracy was practicable.
Out OF the waste and wornout relations men |
dev clopcd the democratic relation. recognizing the
claims OF in one another and their rights in |
themselves.
But in the DEVELOPMENT toward democracy ran
one OF those strange contradictions that may be !
seen parading everywhere about
These contradictions exist not only in the social
but in the individual.
We all know people who in the same nature. !
combine qualities that absolutely contradictory
VIC can prove by argument that qualities so
cannot exist is the same human ma
ture And yet they do exist.
In the struggle for democracy. for the rights |
Of the individual. kind of individual was con-
sidered the male. The other kind of individual, |
the female was forgotten.
And yet the contributes her share in |
those human relations that made UP the State. She !
I11G 1rHS hare elf Sph,o~ %aI& hnl
most preposterous injustices. She is told to keep
her place and be silent. |
She is also told that she lives in a democracy, |
a social order where all human beings are equal. |
Meanwhile in her consciousness the truth is |
stirring 1t is waking her up.
Emphasis as Evidence.
A man who could make millions Of Americans