The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-15
THE WORLD STATE


 government extends full liberty of speech and association fight day and universal direct secret suffrage Some epors say that proportional representation is established America has most of these measures such liberty of beech and association eight hour day America has rec secret but not universal suffrage Exceptions the tate where ve Those states have direct secret uni eFsal suffrage
 The war for the moment has produced type of democ- acy that existed only the ideal of theorists The peoples apparently are intent upon industrial we'll upon olical democracy America and Great Britain well nigh erfec political democraces but little organized in ustra democracies.
 The competitive ndviduaistc system of production is at ts height in United States then in Great Britain. With he British colonies is not the Long before the war Vew Zealand had highly developed cooperation in industry Australia also had gone distance toward the democraza ion of industry
 As the struggle for cooperative forms is based tpon struggle for the land but partly upon species of educa ion directly and consciously carried by political pardes writers and publcists.
 Socialism Germany Belgium Great Britain and France manifestation of the pressure of population upon limited land square mile of land must support large Der of people, which makes the struggle to obtain equal distribution very bitter.
 Russia has much land 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 yle, as countries do in which population is dense.
 An example of land hunger home afforded by Mexico which has sparse population large but an struggle waged by the people obtain land because the and is centralized in the possession of few awners.
 Lloyd George evidently fears the growth of socialism in Great Britain the British Labor party there being exceedingly we'll organized and of growing strength Hence his economic program calls for A hour working week, minimum housing program to provide homes for the workers
 In Mexico, where there few native manufactures and where nearly everybody depends upon the so revolution takes he naked form of struggle for the land.
 Wherever there is a we'll developed system of manufac ures the attempt to democraze ownership takes wider scope.
 The earliest and most successful expression of the revou ion in Russia the decree which dcenralized the Russian Upon this strength Soviets gives them the support of the Russian peasant who is usually } farmer, and nearly always a tenant farmer.
 In the United States there less of the movement toward cooperative forms than other modern people, partly because of the democratic form the government because there plenty land which fairly accessible those who want it.
 difficulty with the socalstc system is that when the attempt made to administer them in bulk and suddenly there not enough of the organizing class of The revolution attended with too much anarchy reconstruction difficult he organizing class usually being arrayed against the change
 The forms of government arising Europe will not immediately be completely socasic They will tend to take compromise forms if only the organz- >ing abilities of the capitalistic groups.
 The immediate result will be a system in which the work Ing class will have not only much larger part dominant part Many things will be done comparatively which formerly were done in competition Trade and will be completely unre8traned 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 ntenaon ism for that of nationaism The world state gained expense of the sovereign state proceeding by which the world and the states should be benefited
 The power of this ideal of world state has had Dected expression The United States and the Allies fought vowedy for league of nations to stop This league formed constitutes in rude but certain way world denies the existence of completely sovereign state state not being completely sovereign which may initiative make another state.
 The governments of the recently enemy powers Ill of them in the control of groups advocating world which would considerably greater powers taken from he sovereign states than the league of peace conempates
 The future is in the possession of many forces The resu will be consequence of the ineracon of all these forces The
  3asion for optimistic outlook
 The world wants progress, but not anarchy All things should be avoided which benefit unborn generations oy pungng the living into confusion anarchy suffering The world depends upon the great leaders Wilson Loyt George and Cemenceau to pilot mankind happily through tn ncharted ocean of change.