The sun., 1916-12-10
ON SEES IN THE WAR THE END OF THE RULE IF N

than the gentlemen who make great
commercial agreements. But such
things will pass, or change. with the
great governmental changes which are
on the way. | think, and coming with
n rapidity which we may find start
ling.
"Only three existing European gov
ernments will endure, ! think; tho
British, the French and the Swiss.
Britain is as republican as our own
United States. The King is its social
head but Parliament makes its laws.
A new order is coming everywhere and
II will be the republican order.
THE non-republican governments
will die. They will die hard. perhaps,
but they will die Gre long. The people
OF the world undoubtedly have willed
that they shall he their " masters,
and what the people will Is sure to
come to pass.
That same modern science which 10
making this great war SO terrible,
those same developments of modern
thought which have been used 90 clev.
erly by sophists to bolster UP b Ger.
nan theories, are working toward this
end.
This war was planned by the mas.
ters Of two nations OF Europe a. .
means with which to thrust upon n
shoulders Of great masses new Burdens,
but 1t will work out to be an instru.
ment through which the people will get
rid Of some of the burdens which they
have borne in the past. The world. I
think. now Is throwing a rider which
for a thousand years has bestridden Il.
The newspaper has been the great
est Of influences toward this end. ard
this generation has some great news
paper men. See what Northclinc very
certainly has lone for England. When
the government ban il lifted perhaps
, Germany will give birth to a North.
clifc. That would help tremendously.
"Out Of this war. In these and other
ways. will be born a new civilization in
which mercy will be given value above
brutality. in which women will play
that rightful part from which they
have been held back since the days Cd
Adam.
Through the brutality and selhsh-
ness Of men they have been prevented
from normal brain development. To<
day not one woman in a thousand can
take three facts and draw from them n
correct conclusion, whereas many men
can take many grouped facts and
properly in,ernret them withou, sen.
oraiion Women onnrcssed have beeu
ccmpelicd to DEPEND rather upon their
instinct than upon their reason. and
this accounts for the high develop,
ment of their intuition. II has been
for them The substitute for reason de,
vlsed by nature for their protection.
But tho women OF the future NAV
have better minds than men"
asked Mr.. Edison VIVA, course I'D
thought the I'ni,ed states should pur.
sue from this time forward.
GO along as well as we know how.V
he answered, our own busis
ness and mono other vbero national
honor does not demand OF us n sacris
flee of comfort for the general Cood
II Is my theory that we should prenaro.
however. Introducing COMPULSORY cdus
cation in the handling of military ma.
chinery among all men between thu
ages Of 90 and oS. Surely Mexico hai
proved the need OF that.
We can produce machinery moro
ingenious and more eff iclent than Tn.
rope can produce. Such n trenchins
machine, for example. as We have IN
sight would have been OF Incredible
value 10 any European nation which
/ had CHANGED to have one at the outs
break of the war.
The CG!ted States Naval Consuits
ing Board, which already has shown
what II can d.. will accomplish mar,
wells II only Congress can be induced
to appropriate the money necessary to
IN" d OF its work. IL will do big
things anyway. l earnestly hope that
we never snail ne NOlSr in any Fila