The sun., 1916-12-10

.hey a believed, many falsities. that
Dy attacking others they were defend
ing their own homes and frcsides,
these blinded people now will light 10
the limit.
The people themselves v TO-
ment trouble: they listen to specious
pleading of the men who gain or may
gain through trouble, believing them
though they say that black is white.
often 1t has been 80 In industry. Labor
leaders want the little power and the
little money that come to them through
1t. Disturbing politicians, usually mis-.
called statesmen merely work upon
a larger scale. Such statesmen in
the country which compelled HOSTILE
ties caused the present European
war.
Democracy offers the one way out
OF all OF this. Only the spread OF de-
mocracy can prevent recurrence Of
such horrors after this war ends. II
Germany and Austria had been repub-
Hes or had been Joined as one repub-
lie. the war never would have come
to pass.
h schoolhouse Is the sign OF the
republic, and there were many school,
houses in Germany and Austria, but
elsewhere in Europe. as in the United
States. the schoolhouse Is the shrine
OF those who expose and conauer SUI
perstition. while in the Teuton school,
louise one superstition was unceas-
ingly forced upon the young-that Of
the all-wisdom and divine right OF
the Hohenzollern dynasty.
That so much good as certainly
existed in German education could
have been linked to this unspeakable
and wicked folly Is n sad commentary
on the lack Of logic in the ordinary
human mind.
Education along other lines seems
to have slight or no effect upon the
brain cells governing such actions.
The Germans were the most highly
generally educated people in the world.
The M%exicans were among the worlds
most ignorant. Yet the Germans
yielded as readily to false leadership.
swore by It rs trustfully and were
as willing to give their all, and to
fight and bleed and die for 1t. as have
been h poor poems to the southwark
Of the United States.
IN England education has been diff
ferent. Very likely many OF it's details
had been worked out with less perfec-
ton. As a matter Of fact, the public
school system Of England. as a whole.
before the war. was far inferior to
that of Germany.
But the omission Of n study from
the English schools. and from Great
Britain generally, saved England and
will save her. Nowhere were English
men instructed in the divine right of
kings. everywhere they were and are
instructed in the inalienable right Of
the individual to work out his own des-
tiny az long as in so doing he does not
interfere with the similar rights OF
other individuals.
Germany miscalculated when she
figured out the British. She has writ
ten more and known less about hui
man psychology than any other nation
in the worlds history. She thought
the British too slow. too soddcn. to get
irto the war before Belgium had been
stolen. France had been defeated.
Russia had been checked.
"All these things might have oc-
CURED IL the British people mad been
what the Germans thought they were,
But they were not. ! hold no brief
for them. ! am OF those Americans
who can sec the faults of Britons quite
as clearly as Britons can see those Of
Americans. That means good eye
sight.
II analyze the British character as
cold. unsentimental, brutally practical.
incredibly averse to changes. even for
the better: greedy to do every big job
itself in its own way and impatient of
suggestions from others, ever though
they he equally concerned; too much
given to sport. short op nerves (prin-
cipally because OF climate, too much
food and too much drink. tolerant Of
unlimited exploitation OF the poor by
the rich. willing to endure too many
s. so clerks and o. many benches full
OF beer barons in Parliament.
England had made great and fun
damental mistakes. most OF which
have been laid bare before the world
by the progress OF events connected
with this war. She kept wages too
low and stupefied her workingmen with
alcohol in order ia make this possible
and make profit for her titled brewers.
She kept her workers so underfed and
overbeercd that they lost the power
to think.
1T was because they couldn't think
and therefore were incapable of per-
ceiying that his war against Germany
is a war for progress against retro
erosion, for humanity against brutal
ity. for the people against the robber
harons. that they hung back at first
and did not enlist to fight It's battles.
Their wages had been kept too low
TOO long, they never had been cncour-
aged to reason. I can mention one or
many facts to prove this: they had
fought against labor saving machinery,
Welding only when the competition OF
other nations armed with advanced
Industrial equipment, notably Germany
and America. made yielding necessary.
But though the Englishman is slow,
when he starts he can't be stopped.
He is heavy. Momentum will carry
him much farther than it will the
Germans or the French or the Amer.
leans. II has been this which has
made every n but the stupid, AFRO
CANT and king ridden German MIL
~tarists realize that England Is now as
dangerous to the aggressor as she ever
was.
But the Germans did not analyze'
They mistook the very signs OF
awakening which should have warned
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