Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-28
THE NEW UNITED STATES
fchristIan seience MonitOr.l


 American people will be just and wise, or even for the completion of the domestic readjustment which the abnormal eco homie conditions of the last four years have made essential, 1t Is not only possible for the United States to recognize the fact that an epoch in its history has ended and another has begun, but 1t Is imperative that it shall do so A new era for the re- public has set in, It would be folly to waste time in elaboration of argument on this point lust as certainly as the war of ool- $ marked the transition of the republic from an old order to a new, has the war of lol4-l6 drawn line between the na- tion's past and its future. As the hours, days, months, and years roll on, the dis tinction will grow more pronounced be- tween thoughts and things existent before humanity was presented, by German mill- tarism' with the tragedy of the ages.
 Let it be repeated and emphasized that in the United States there IS unlimited faith in the justice and wisdom of the nations which will settle the questions growing out of that tragedy. The settlement has passed from the arbitrament of the sword to the arbitrament of the pen All parties to it are agreed that it must be a final set clement and therefore, that it must be fair. Its conclusion will affect all the peoples ot the earth. In the United States it is the con viction as well as the hope that it will af- feet humanity beneficially. Whatever may be the tendency or disposition in smaller groups toward anxiety, perturbation. or alarm over the possible outcome, the mass is willing to leave the various problems to the representative men intrusted with their solution.
 In turning from international to nation al questions of immediate concern the United States will not be shirking from the full measure of its world responsibility Now, as never before, 1t realizes the meaning and weight of interna- tional obligations To this realization has it been awakened by the war. As little as ever does it feel called upon to meddle with the affairs of its neighbors, and yet, more than ever is it influenced and impelled by the spirit of neighborliness. It recognizes, as it claims, the right of every people to self-determination and self-government, in the largest possible measure commensur- ate with the common welfare but 1t has got past the thought that it can live, or the wish that it might live, within itself It has emerged from the war with the settled conviction that, henceforth, it must take its part in the world, sharing in world re- sponsibility and sympathy, as in world power.
 Its world duty begins at home, no matter how widespread may be its later activities Nothing which the United States can do, at the present time, will be more serviceable to humanity, eventually, than the steps it shall take toward overcoming the losses sustained by industry during the progress of the war By clearing away the debris and restoring normal business conditions at home, it will open opportunities for enter prise and labor abroad. What the world wants most today is not sympathy, no mat ter how expressed, but work. 70 bridge over the period between idleness and em- ployment IS a task which the United States will cheerfully take up, but this af- lords at best only temporary aid; the task that calls for all the intelligence, energy, en- terprise. and constructive statesmanship which the nation can command IS that ot setting the new era going with full steam ahead.
 There is no lack of capital in the coun- try; there never was before, in the history of the world, so much idle capital in one nation. so much capital readily available to profitable employment, as now may be found in the United States and never were