The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-17
Sees LIBERTY
and PROSPERITY
SENATOR J. HAM LEWIS OF I'LL
NolS TALKS OF CIVIC AND
NATIONAL REFORM.
thirty Year Periods Have Seen Eco
nomic and Progressive Changes in
All Copntries and Chimes.

Considering the fact that tba co.
iectIon OF presidential candidates is
over year distant, and that he did
not Know whether his state desired
representation on the national Demo.
cratic ticket, Hon. James Hamilton
Lewis, United State Senator from Hi
iiols and Senate parliamentary whin
VINO is recuperating from recent in.
ness at the Arlington hotel, said. per-
sonalIy, he would prefer much to
serve his term in the Senate and then
take a rest and fully regain his health.
However, he added, events were so
changing in America, both politically
and economically that ii was fmros-
siDle for any man to prophesy a year
ahead what particular form of duty
would be put upon him or what the
course of his country might be.
Senator Lewis had been called from
Washington for a conference with
Governor Dunn, Of Illinois. regarding
the organizing of the legislature. and
he was stricken with illness, caused
by the strain of oyerwork. The re
cent announcement that vote for
the presidency taken by southern
bankers and Law Review gave to
Senator Lewis a majority over Vice
President Marshall as candidates for
that office, was evidently appreciated
by the Illinois Senator and i'm an in
terview he also indicated he was in
favor of materially strengthening the
army and navy Of the United States.
Speaking Of past changes and prob
ably ones in the future. Senator Lew
is said:
Ii you viii note the course of his
tory, you viii observe that every thir-
ty years there is a complete change
in the proposed methods OF men. This
lis not due to the mystical fact OF
merely thirty years having transpired,
but is due to the fact that within each
thirty years a new generation is born
reaches its maturity and. partaking
of experiences of the preceding gener-
alton, adds original conception and
advanced ideas of action It is this
which gives a new phase to the peri
cd beginning upon the expiration of
each thirty years. The beginning of
this thirty years change and reforma-
tion can always be traced to either a
commencement or ending Of some
great war, or Of some great financial
panic or serious epidemic.
After the conquest of Caeser thirty
years had elapsed when a new theory
OF government was given to Rome.
England became government OF
ideas and men as against the slavery
of subjects thirty years following the
failure of the Gauls to conquer the is
land Germany took the idea of home
rule and individual liberty within the
thirty years following her struggles
against the advance of England aud
the combined attacks of Italy and
France. France did not crystalize in
to the doctrine Of liberty and equality
until thirty years after her wars with
her neighbors and then the Revolu-
ton took its form through the explo-
sion caused by the madness of the
new discovery on the part of these
men that they had personal rights of
which they could not DE deprived by
any form of king or ruler. Ii was
thirty years after Waterloo that
France and England took new eco
nomic ideas upon The question of home
taxation foreign wars. and freedom
OF religious worship. During this time
our own country had gone through
similar experiences. the war of our
revolution against England, then
against Mexico and then in the de
plorable experiences of our civil war
Letween the states At about 1873 all
the nations of the world seemed to
take a start following the Franco
German war ending in ~ and an
almost contemporaneously a
new theory Of taxation, personal liber
ty and the protested friendships with
nations of the world.
After that, all the world, nclud-
ing China and Japan, which had pre-
viously been omitted from considera
ton in matters of governmental civil
i2ation. addressed themselves to the