Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-09
DEMOCRACY MEANS WORLD PEACE

Conditions are shaping themselves in the midst of the
most gigantic and destructive war in history for an era
of world peace One after another the autocratc govern
mens have gone to the wall, and in their places have
risen governments by the people Under the old auto
cratic system the world portioned out between GER
tain royal pers0nages and these being jealous of each
ther any of each others power were continually schem
ing to enlarge their holdings and increase their import
ance Nations governed have been time out of mind
quarrelling with their neghbOrs endeavoring on the
least occasion to enlarge their d0mnOnS at the
expense of those neighbors These rulers spoke OF my
soldiers, my sailors, my subjects, my Kingdom Every
thing mine"
With the changing of mime" to "our" and the depriy-
ing of one person the right of pungng his country into
war but requiring that the people who must do the fight
ing and the suffering shall decide whether conditions are
such to demand war; wars will become ral1tles when
this condition becomes world wide and peoples Of every
country have the deciding voice. will vanish from the
earth The fighting each other in Europe had moth
ing 20 to fighting each other about and II 1t had been
left to them there would have been The sturdy
peasant of Germany did not want to get possession OF his
French neghbor'S little farm nor did the French hus-
bandman desire the lands of his German neghbor They
had feeling against each other The same holds good
of all the other nations 1t because Of the atocratc
government of Germany that could be declared by
her. and her people taken from their peaceful pursuits
for no other purpose than the aggrandsement Of the
reignng family.
Russia has set the example and shown the difference
between the despotism Of the cZars rule and the DEM
ocracy of the government 1t has demonstrated that
under the regime Russia is willing to do justice to ali
people because she started in by doing justice to the OPP
pressed of her country The principle of justice once
established the rule in any country naturally results in
Justice being done to all the world Germany practically
the last of the great despotsms the hand writing On
the wall and even her most rabd mitarsts realize that
their power must be curtailed and the people given a
greater part in the government. Under her present
system of government Germany danger and menace
to the peace of the world and about all that stands in the
way of universal peace. When this war is some
arrangement may be made among the nations by which
all disputes will be settled by a world tribunal. The
armies and navies any government may maintain will be-
regulated and an agreement made by which all the ma
tons will back up that tribunal and enforce its DEGREES
When this time comes and it surely WILL it will require mol
great armies or naves The boycott will be the weapon
used and nation refusing to obey the DEGREES of the
worlds court viii be ignored by all the others, which will
refuse to trade with her long she is obstreperous
Before this real Utopia materialize the auocrac
governments of central Europe must be destroyed and a.
government of the people substituted.
you are going do anything about those vacant lots
do it at In very short time it will be too late for
this year and you may regret it, The Secretary OF Agr
culture has urged this pan and pointed out that prob
ably $50000000 worth of foodstuis could be grown in
this way AT Eugene 500 lots have been secured and will
be planted Is Salem alone to stay dormant depending
the farmers who have the job of raising the oodstuffs
not only for the nation but to help Others to also supply
them with things they can grow themselves?
If you going to do anything toward helping the
cotys food supply, you will have to get busy, for in
few weeks it will be too late to do anything this year