The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-28
BY Charles E. Russell

seem sometimes so far off and SO
improbable-come true at last!
No more kings and no more
wars!
This world no longer q blood
stained arena for the combats of
wild beasts. but life redeemed In
it and exalted.
The bitter old days OF tooth and
claw, of grab and gain, of truth
upon the scaffold and wrong
upon the throne, gone forever and
ever-the new day OF freedom,
equality and decency ready to
| dawn!
We may see all of these things
we may, indeed we may. II we
do see them then all the splen-
doris that have shown upon this
earth will be nothing to that
splendor
It's Good Night.
For let this magnificent revo-
luton spread from Russia into
Germany and from Germany into
Austria--let the reactlonary ele-
ment of England keep its moldy
fingers off-it is Good Night to
absolutism In this world.
Good Night to monarchy, Good
Night to oppression and autocracy
everywhere. Yes = and Good
Night to plutocracy!
They are all bound up to-
gether, they are all members of
the same Old Beast, they were all
invented by the same devil.
No End to Good.
If the time has come for the
death throes of this sombre and
poisonous monster, there is no
end to the prospect of good that
opens before the children of men
LITERALLY NO END!
Always, whenever the torch of
democracy is lifted in one country
it shines on all countries-it is
always so.
Suppose now Germany to awake
also--in one month there will not
be king left in all continental
/ Europe!
With Europe all republics
the chances of war will be
reduced 30 per cent.
DemOcracies do not make
war. The soul of democracy
is utterly foreign to war.
MOnarchies mean war; de-
mocracies mean peace.
Every throne is an inces-
SAINT threat Of war; every
king exists behind a bulwark
of spears.
With the dropping of the sword
the mind of man will turn to
higher things, the spirit of man
will have a new birth, life will
ONLY JUST BEGIN upon the
earth!
Democracies fear autOcra-
cies; they do not fear them
selves!
| Democracy is based upon the
essential goodness of the human
heart. Democracy is faith, goot
will, tolerance and friendship
RACE-HATRED CAN NEVEF
LONG SURVIVE WHERE THERE
is ABSOLUTE DEMOCRACY.
Would End War.
No, there is no end to the pos.
sibilities now at hand. Already
we have seen In the emancipation
Of Russia the greatest day fo1
mankind since the fall of the
Bastile. Let this thing spread
and we shall see far greater day
than that.
For consider: II Germany re.
volts and applies to the Hohen.
zollerns the wise and well-con
sidered treatment the Russian.
have used upon the almost equal
ly detestable Romanoffs-tha'
will end the war.
Nobody wants to make war
on the German PEOPLE;
nobody would make war upon
them. Reborn into the Ger
man republic, with an end to
the power of the depraved,
degenerate and half-mad
family that has plunged the
world into a sea of blood and
tears, the German people
would be welcomed with loud
applause into the federation
of democracies that Is to be!
Poverty Goes, Too.
With the recognition of the
great truth that there is no
wisdom but collective wis.,
dom, and no welfare but col
lective welfare, men will un-
doubtedly insist upon sys-
TENS of business that will not
produce gigantic fortunes on
one hand and widespread
poverty on the other.
With the enfranchisement O
women in Russia will have to b.
enfranchised all around tn
world.
With the addition of the great
! er spirituality of woman's influ
ence, government will advanc
marvelously in civilization and de
cency.
The universal suffrage for mel
3 and women will force universe
: education: UNIVERSAL EDUCA
: TON WILL LIFT THE WORLDS
5 MIND.
, All this wonderful and almos
bewildering possibility of Goo,
r dawns upon us in a moment
Down on your knees, democrats
t and give thanks that you hav
lived to see It!