The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-18

national economic ills. Justice is the
only cure for those of the individual.
The dynastic system besides its ar
mics, it's sepentine diplomatic service,
and it's state church, demands the
backing of philosophy. And with this,
the ruling caste of Germany has am
ply provided itself. And as "all good
things come in threes" (alle quite
dinge sind dreD, in Germany the
philosophy of the dynastic state is
threefold--the supreme state, or
"statt," the supreme discipline, or
"kultur," and the supreme duty of
power, or "social Darwinism."
The theory of the supreme state fig
ures an ideal entity overarching the
sovereign nation as the sky overarches
the earth, thus existing over and above
and apart from the peoples which it
watches, feeds and protects, as the
landowner guards his sheep. The
sheep are not consulted as to methods
of defense, nor as to the time when
they should be duly shorn. The paral-
lei is clear, for the final aim in both
cases is found in the shearing. On the
supreme state, the people may not i'm
pinge in any way. On the other hand,
the state which lies beyond the reach
of all morals and can do no wrong,
must impinge on them. To this end
the dynasty is established with its ar
ray Of satellites, parasites, and favor
ties who actually control. And as the
dynasty is neither self-chosen through
| its own innate power, nor elected by
the people, it must claim divine origin
And this claim is a transparent sham
The supreme state is in fact the cloak
behind which autocracy hides its
crimes and follies and those of its sy-
cophants and tyrants. The king or
emperor heads the dynasty only in
name. He is the creature of the sys-
TEN, and there are few dynastic rulers
who ever draw a breath of fresh air
or ever see in truthfulness any part of
the actual world outside.
The theory of supreme discipline or
"kultur" involves a system of disci-
pline enforced from above. This in
cludes not only compulsory education,
cultural and vocational, with enforced
army service, but also complete regi-
mentation of industries. For every
competent man the state finds place
and then holds him there with, in gen
eral, no hope of advancement or
change. This involves the three col
lective duties of society: "Dienst, Ord
nung, Kraft" (sevice, conformity, eff
ficiency). These duties are enforced
from above, involving no impulses
arising within the individual, but all
along lines indicated by officialism
The individual is described as brick
within an edifice he does not see and
cannot understand. From the same
source arise the three personal duties
"Soldat sein, steuer zahlen, mund hal
ten" (be a soldier, pay taxes, mouth
shut). These represent the sole indi-
vidual contributions of the common
man. And on such basis of military
and industrial control the war system
| justifes itself as discipline in mass
efficiency. In contradistinction, dem.
ocracy makes for individual efficiency
and has a philosophy of its own
whereby the man as reality is ex-
allied and the estate" is no Hegelian
abstraction but a cooperative orpani-
cation of free men for mutual welfare
Whenever the human democratic state
forgets it's origin and claims for its
shifting majorities the divine right Of
infallibility and of impeccability il
| it passes into the autocratic class with
all the possibilities of tyranny and
corruption, which inhere in political il,
lusions.
The philosophy of social Darwin.
ISM" looks forward to the right and
duty of the dynastic and regimentet
state to extend it's system, overriding
by force or trickery all interiors OF
competitors.
This theory bears no legitimate re.
lation to Darwinism, from which il
borrows only its name 1t regards
civilization as merely physical strug-
gle for existence, nation against ma.
ton, race against race, in which the
weak go to the wall, to be "trampled
broad" by the strong and ruthless
I The objectionable sin of sovereign