French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-15
GREAT ISSUES COMING
UP FOR SETTLEMENT.

EaLaE.L A.-E.. --" A
Our people need to be thinking as
nstef before about great social and
politlcal issues. The world is going
to be largely made over after this war.
In nearly every country people are
going to consider afresh the founda-
lions on which they built their govern
ments and set out more re~solutely to
realize the ancient ideal of liberty,
equality. fraternity" Russia is al
ready afre with this spirit. and for ten
years now it has been nightly stirr-
ing England and France.
Then take the case of Germany. If
we could patch up a peace with the
Kaiser now, he would keep his hold
on his people and Germany would
continue under the domination of a
war-mad ~aristocracy, a menace to the
world. But with the Kaiser soundIy
beaten. as he is u to be; the Ger
man people should rise successfully
(as they did unsuccessfully in 1848),
throw off their vicious rulers. and es-
tablish a great peaceful republic.
That is our hope, and with the capable
German people supporting the forces
OF peace and democracy instead of the
forces of war and autocracy a new
day will indeed dawn for the world.
Look at the great issues now crowd
ing upon us-issues about which every
intelligent man should be forming an
opinion.
/. First of all, must we not estaD-
lish a Supreme Court of Nations to
settle international disputes, pIedging
to it's support the military strength of
all civilized countries
2. The nation has been forced to
admit in it's hour of need that the just
est tax is that on inneritances great
incomes, and excess profits. Should
= ever again revert to a system that
~unjustly on the poor?
3. The failure to encourage agricu1-
ture has resulted in a drift to the
towns. the seriousness of which is
seen in the present threat of world
famine. How else shall we revitalize
agriculture, promote soil ~concerva-
toin, and stabilize the institutions of
attractive country life except through
MISUNDERSTANDING he power of
taxation and other powers to encour-
age ABSENTEE la~ndlordism?
4 For generations the vitality of
nearly every people has been Slapped
by the drink evil. Now our govern
ment for the period of the a has
forbidden the manufacture of whiskey.
Shall we allow the industry to be re-
viyed again?
5. Seventy. per cent of the 1O6,39z
volunteers for the navy last year and
sc per cent of the 1,300,0 900 men ex-
amined for the army and navy since
the wal began, have been found phys1-
cally unfit. Is it not time to inquire
whether our great industries have not
been grinding III manhood to make
money and also whether it is not time
to make expert medical attention and
hospital facilities free alike to rich
and poor-as free as schools are0now?
6. Woman suffrage now seems as
sured in Great Britain and IN our own
country President Wilson has declared
woman suffrage is n of the
fundamentals of democracy whose
proper settlement is demanded by the
issues OF the war"
These are a few and only a few
of the great issues now crowding for
settlement. For the most part they
look to what Premier Lloyd-George
of England calls "a crusade against
poverty" Let us get America ready
to line up with other nations in this
righteous wal of ideas to follow the
present war of bullets.-Dr. Clarence
Pou in Progressive Farmer.