South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-29
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
ill chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All dscord, harmony not understood;
All partial eUi, uniUerSal good

r. ROM the FatherhOOd OF God TO the Broth
- q hood OF Man is distance OF about
sixty centuries. We're on the home
stretch. We're going TO be tagged out.
Democracy i the wire. IL is the philosophy OF
the divine right of kings" reduced TO a pOpu-
lar science through the evolution of the multi
tudc-a court Of last resort for the application
Of spiritual laws to- the affairs of a natural
world.
spiritual law il not dogma; it is
creed: il is not even Biblical lore. Ii is in
zpiratioI,-thc germ Of an idea, developing
thought. passing on to judgment. The natural
b. but the super natural visualzed; enecting
expression through matter and mind. De-
mocrsicy - supernatural intcIIcctualism nat
urlIizcd and expressed in averages. It is self
reliance mutuaIized; responsibility and bene-
faction on the gridiron of cooperation.
Democracy differs from autocracy in the
broader expansion and a cOrcsPOndingly thin
ncr vciE OF csOtism. The singular becomes
plural: right j. made might not might right
and Justice and mercy coordinate. where power
and revenge before had merely maintained
uproar.
Responsibilities naturally gravitate TO the
person who can shoulder them. and power
eventually flows To the man who knows how
People may make mistakes. but they are their
mistakes and they soon learn TO correct them
Unlike the king who ~can do no wrong, they
have I'm this a school for self-imprOvement; an
important feature Of dcmocracS's value. The
wireless through which the infinite inspires
the finite sometimes misses, and then again il
hts-but the autocrat, realistically infalIiblc.
i always 'cOck-sure".
His is the installation OF birth. Physical de-
formity or mental incompIeteness, incapable
of receiving inspiration, have untitled more
TutOcrats for responsibility or power, than
democracy could possibly he capable Of Ii is
against such rs these that democracy must
make the world safe.
TCONOCLASTs. cynics. German propagandists
/ and their conscious and unconscious dupes
are still asking: why is the United States IN
the ware" and the above is the answer.
We are i'm this war because we couldn't
keep out of il. II we could have we would
have. We are victims. martyrs. gIadiators,
embryo victors; something-in the clutches OF
destiny.
Either there i a great moving power, that
II from the beginning, upon which hangs the
world OF the senses and the world of thought
and action. or else there Is none, and if there
- il viii effect it, purpose though mortaIs
MAY smother in apathy oppose with mad
moss.
The decd, OF time are governed well
Judged ny thc DEGREES of eternity. The caprice
uf ncCtns CNistences bend To thc immovable
omnipotcucc which plants its foot on all ages
and has neither change OF purpose nor repose.
sometimes like a lone star in the thick
darkness of night. il creeps along "mys-
tcriouS ways but when the time strikes for
mankind Co pass into new life, unseen hands
draw the bolts from the gates of futurity and
eternal wisdom martials the great procession
sc nations in it, preparation of the minds OF
men for coming revolution.
Those VINO plan resistance find themselves
IN conflict with the will of Divine Providence
rather than with human devices.-and it is
iust ~ with respect this great world
Throughout the ages. leading down to the
present. human stlfshness, tribe and then class
domination. the rise OF aristOcracies, pIut-
oCracics. monarChies, autOcracics, and pitted
against them the resistance OF the slave, the
prolctarat ard the democrat. has been piling
zap and up an immense heap OF combustibIes-
and W are at war because the COmbusdbles
have exploded
The world Is a. IL Enthusiastically ready. either
for democracy. or else Cor its extinction.
Either democracy autOcraCy will be the rule
ct the future and that is why we are in ito
heIp interpret the will of the Most High
exactly that point
Mr.. Iconoclast Mr.. CyniC Mr.. Pro-German
Propagandist. There Is nothing be gained
hy your iconocIasm. your cyniCism. your prose-
lifting. You arc either for democracy or au-
toCracy in this Democracy has your
number IL may tolerate YOU. autocracy
wouldn't IL your mental attitude were re-
NcrScd. This i proof i'm itself OF demOcracy's
superiority. IL j. not weakness but strength
that confers mercy upon ones enemies.