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Life Without An Armed Guard

(By Edward X. Graham, President
University OF North Carolina
Far from being a detached and
unaccountable accident. this is the
wars inspiring and even sublime
compensation. that the time Is at
length ripe for the final settlement
for the whole world of the conflict
between two irreconcilable ideals
governing the relations OF men, that
are at the roots of all human pro
gress-a conflict toward which from
a thousand detached battlefelds the
currents of history have been con-
verging through all the patient cen
turtles. From that early dawn OF
time when man made his nrst acct
dental fire captive and nurtured that
fire in his fight against his fellow an
imals, and cold and hunger, to MS
latest conquest of space with the
wireless. mans expanding and asplr'
ing life has been a fight for just this
ideal of freedom-to be freely AT
home, physically, mentally, spiritual
ly, and politically on this planet and
so master of his environment.
Through science and invention he
steadily linked the physical world to-
gether and the political world, into
wider and deeper units of under
standing, and cooperation, and SELF
government; and the living spring
that was the source of all his rest
less striving ana suffering and sacrl-
fee was the God-implanted, indomlt-
able belief in his innate rights to
life, liberty, and the free pursuit OF
happiness.
"Paganism utterly denied such
rights. 1t allowed no value to a
man as man; man was what wealth,
or place, or power made him. Even
deep-visioned Aristotle, you remem-
Der, taught that nature intended
some men to be slaves and chattels.
1t was the religion OF Jesus Christ
gathering up the wisdom OF the
struggling centuries that gave the fl
nal status to mans value in the
world of things in the proclamation
of the common fatherhood OF God,
and the brotherhood OF man.
That means so infinitely much
this doctrine OF men as the sons OF
God-in every human relation that
we have not even yet caught its full
significance. The history of the l.
500 years after Christ is the story
of mans effort to understand and d.
gest into practice that simplest ana
most wonderful Of spiritual doc
trines and apply it to the co-opera-
tive enterprise of living together that
we call government. This practical
attempt to put his civil and political
institutions in accord with his splrl-
tual faith came at last, and 1t came
here in America. That is what
i Nv ,afrr no
al linen are free and equal, and that
governments are of, by, and for all
the people; that rights begin in and
with the people and go upward from
them, and not downward from the
State To the oppressed OF all ma
lions it meant a clear pathway to
merit of whatever kind; it meant
having an infinite chance and know
ing you had it.
The shot that was fired at Concord
as a proclamation of the divine right
of the individual in government was
heard around the world-in England
no less than in America and France.
Following the French Revolution and
the medieval despotism imposed on
the States of Europe by the settle
ment of 1S14-l5, freedom made its
separate fight in Italy, Austria and
Germany, and by 1S4S there was the
vision of Europe as one great eman-
cipated land" But that fabric of
the dream Of freedom collapsed, as it
had done so often before, and under
the leadership of Bismarck in Ger
many absolutism became once more
ascendant, to remain so for 70 years.
Bismarck, at that time, clearly
stated the issue; it is the issue now,
and will be till the world is wholly
free. He said: The strife of prin-
ciples which has shaken Europe is
one in which no compromise is pos
sible. They rest on opposite bases
The one draws it's law from what is
called the will of the people. The
other rests on authority created by
Colby which he meant heredi-
tary military despotism. And he
stated the logical method of carry
ing out this policy; the method of
blood and IRON The issue is the
same, the method is the same; the
glorious difference is that instead of
its being a conflict in separate States
or declarations, as it has always been