The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-10

i"''iiis' It's investments. its every in
'elest reaching all over the world
let the genius of the French MOO
PIE though they went about # in an
entirely different way. proved i,s+.
as capable of taking care of the OH
legations handed over to it from the
Napoleonic period as did that of tha /
English people.
New Heritage of Freedom.
If England emerged from No. s+,,,o
gle nrmly possessed of an empire and |
colonies and commerce extending n
ali the continents and all the seas
france emerged with a new HERITAGE
OF freedom, of something like real
opportunity. with a redistribution Of
It's land and wealth, which vested tha
average French family with q mower
OF productiveness quite beyond any
thing that had been dreamed of or
had been possible under the old regime
OF bourbonism and feudalism.
II England gained in substance.
France improved in spirit. If England
was able to go about paying off it's
debts, France was able to increase
us producing capacity so greatly that
the burden of its debt was borne with
out difficulty and without interfering
with vast and continuous enhance
ment of the national wealth.
Is it possible that this experience
OF Europe following the Napoleonic
wars may be repeated after the pres
emf I,nrOnp1n -.
to this question men with visions of
the future have little difficulty finding
an affirmative; and they justify their
confidence by pointing out that this
war is as truly war of emancipation
as were the struggles that began with
the French Revolution
If the revolution wrenched France
and the continent generally away from
the institutions of political feudalism
and spiritual repression, the present
war will, if its event be fortunate, lib
crate the world from the institutions
Of political militarism and industrial
/ feudalism.
If the land of France was democra-
/ tized as to its ownership as a result
4 of the revolution the instruments of
1 factory production, of transportation,
/ of finance, developed since the revo-
/ luton, Will be sOcialized as a result
of the present struggle.
If the revolution brought not only
/ TO France but to the rest of Europe a
! ulster distribution of political power,
the war of today will bring fairer
/ ~. - ha rarpHInfC of tho
worlds industry a wider recognition
Of mans rights in the pursuit of lib
| erty and happiness, great sharpen
ing of intelligence and widening OF
educational opportunities.
Following the Napoleonic wars the
big dominating fact in the economic
development of the nineteenth century
was the rise of the factory system of
production and the development OF
modern means of transportation. fol-
lowing the present war it may conn
IDENTIFY be expected that there Will De
further and no less significant al
yances in the methods of production
CARRYING to all the world the benents
of those big highly organized ana IN
tenseIy efficient units whose growth
has particularly marked the more re-
cent industrial evolution in the Onlteo
States and Germany.
American Republic is Moe
In the direction of nation ding
If peopling and utilizing for the com
mon benefit of men the unused places
of the world. the master achievement
If the nineteenth century, was Vh'
building of the American republic
To the twentieth century's aspira
lions in this same direction Is re
served the privilege OF making tFu'!
r,.aa+ and modern nation out or INT
1aonninp essentially democratic mil
Tins Of Russia; of developing Afric'
"a South America as the eighteenth
and nineteenth century developed
America of building great European
communities in Australia IN oou'n Al
,ica in East Africa, in the Niger ah'
congo basins and in North ATTIC"
1,rootino the Decentralization
Tbino With its vast and capable popu
1o+ion and almost limitless resources
If building a group OF great po"1 q
-, efficient democracies on III
tnnndations that are already nrni
: laid in the republics of South Alhei ~,
y AIong with this political deVeiol
ment will go an industrial aus an :
/ ,.aso measure and results must
! ,ndged by projecting into the lu.ul
the the gains of the last century century, n n%J
/ nDt oiways that the rate of TINS az
e o 80 Is constantly being accelerate.
r S s"nu is more and more coming
g .ha re.enforcement of invention. IT
d . ,,'o+ive capacity is growing at pa(
e - w. moves with the expansion OF Il
. .lius the Improvement OF educ
v I'LL methods, and everywhere thei
t. .io.i'' i,a.ance that educational system