Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
IF You Want to KnOw What viii
Happen When the War Is Over,
Study What Is Happening No,o

WILL stocks go down when peace is here?
w How long will our prosperity last?
w How soon, after it has departed, will it return
do not know the answer to these questions But one
thing do know and it interests me much more
knoy that the condition Of the common people OF the
aportd cN IN the future be bad 1t has been
the past.
One who listens carefully may hear the echo Of this
awful war right mow. And the echos name is Social
Retirement.
Look at any single nation.
Germany for example. Even before the war, the
railroads owned and operated by the State poverty
practically abolished universal health insurance. uni
versal pensons specialized training for every boy and girl
Do you think for one minute that Germany's men are
coming back from the trenches to accept less Of the OPP
Portunitles OF life than they had won for themselves
before the war?
What do you see in England? Rich and poor eating
submssvely the same food, doed out to them by the
State: Tremendous taxes inheritances and on the
wealth of those who have more than enough. Labor
members holding the balance Of power in the Cabinet.
insurance. pensions prohibition imminent; and the
promise of much more to
Englands common folk holding the trenches side
by side with Englands choicest Think you those
will come back to worship those whom they have
saved?
See little Denmark Shoes and clothes manufactured
by the Stae-all alike, and all as cheap possible
The prices of practically everything governmentaly
fixed.
minimum income of $500 per family, with govern
ment subsidy in cases where the family income falls
below that figure.
Luxures taxed to point that is practically prohb-
itve prison penalties for those who waste them
selves the wealth that should supply comfort for all.
You need not look to Europe:
Look right here at home
remember sitting the Senate at Washington day
when Senator La Toilette proposed that the government
build railroads in Alaska. The suggestion created an
uproar.
To-day have the Postmaster General proposing
that the government buy telegraph and telephone
line in the United States and the proposal creates
hardly ripple of surprise
The Governor of rockr ribbed Massachusetts, proposes
State health insurance and pensions and the most
conservative newspapers praise his craftsmanship.
The Union Pacific Railroad announces the insurance
of all its employees intelligent observers predict national
health insurance within year two.
Call it socialism what you will the fact remains
the The most destructive in history is work
ing hstory's greatest social changes.
Looking ahead knowing what is coming it the duty
of every man of influence position wealth in the
United States to consecrate himself.
To the end that this great change which is almost
upon may not be leaderless That it may be
luton, not a revolution. That it may peacefully,
orderly step by STEP and only so fast as it
whoesomely.
And that there may with it spiritual we'll
material development.
That the people who to share fully in the
things that can be eaten and and traded in may
not lose their vision of the things that greater and
more enduring