Republican farmer., 1918-11-22
THE WORLD STATE


 of each group, the minority and the majority. The full liberty speech and association eight hour work day and universal direct secret suffrage reports say that proportional representation established
 America of these measures, such liberty of speech and association the eight hour day America has direct secret but not universal suffrage Exceptions the states vo Those states have direct secret uni Nersal suffrage.
 The war for the moment has produced type of democ- racy that existed before only the ideal of theorists The peoples apparently intent upon industrial we'll upon political democracy. America and Great Britain we'll nigh perfect political democracies, but little organized in dustrial democracies The competitive indivduasic system of production at its height United States; then in Great Britain. With the British colonies it is not the Long before the war New Zealand had highly developed cooperation in industry Australia had distance toward the democraza ton of industry. I a the struggle cooperative forms is based upon struggle for the land but partly upon species of educa ton directly and consciously carried by political parties writers and pubcss
 Socialism in Germany Belgium Great Britain and France Is manifestation of the of population upon limited of land square mile of land must support large Der of people, which makes the struggle to obtain equal distribution very bitter
 Russia has and large the Russian population is. But the land has been centralized into the possession of great land holders and that country presents the sort of strug gle as countries do in which population is dense
 example of land hunger home is afforded by Mexico which has sparse population, large but sant struggle waged by the people obtain land because the land centralized in the possession of few
 Lloyd George evidently fears the growth Of socialism Tn Great Britain the British Labor party there being exceedingly organized and growing strength Hence his economic program calls for A hour working week minimum and housing program provide homes for the workers
 In Mexico where there are manufacturers and nearly everybody depends upon the soil revolution takes the naked form of struggle for the land.
 Wherever there is well developed system of manufac tures the attempt to democraze ownership takes wider scope
 The earliest and most expression the decree which decentrazed the Russian land Upon this decree based the strength of the Sovie for gives the support the Russian peasant who is usually a farmer, and nearly always tenant farmer
 United States there less of the movement toward cooperative than among other modern people, partly of the democratic form of the government and because there plenty of land which fairly accessible to those who want it.
 The difficulty with the sociaisic system is that when the attempt made to administer them in bulk and suddenly there enough of the organizing class of The revolution is attended with too much anarchy, reconstruction difficult the organizing class usually being arrayd against the change
 The forms of government arising n Europe will not immediately be completely ocialistc They will tend to- take compromise forms if only from the sheer need of the oganz ing abilities of the capialstc groups
 The immediate result will be system in which the work ing class will have not only much larger part but dominant part Many things will be done cooperave which formerly done in competition Trade and will be as completely unresraned they have been There will be better distribution of the products of industry among the nd viduals who will constitute the states.
 The most percepbe and broadest immediate result of the Allied victory the substitution of the principle of nernaon am for that of naonaism The world state has gained at the of the sovereign state proceeding by which the world and the states should be benefited.
 The of this ideal of world state has had peced expression The United States the Allies avowedy for league of nations to stop This league formed constitutes in rude, but certain way, world state cause denies the existence of completely sovereign state state not being completely sovereign which not its initiative make another state.
 The governments of the recently enemy powers art all of them in the control of groups advocating world sa which would considerably greater powers taken iron the sovereign states than the league of peace contempate
 The utuFe is the possession of forces The resul will be consequence of the ineracon all result not be completely foreseen there every |. a casion for optimistic outlook
 The world wants progress, but not anarchy. All thing should be avoided which benefit unborn by plungng the living into confusion suerne The world depends upon the great leaders Wilson, Lloy George and Cemenceau to pilot mankind happily through uncharied ocean of change