The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-05
Building New Nations
It's Like Galvanizing the Dead

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Democracy, triumphant is building the human hives
that we call nations.
Building nations is like building houses in one way You
must have bricks and mortar that win stand for tbs house
You have human beings and laws that win stand up for the
nations
clever little man in Washington was Msvroyen Bey
Turkish minister to the United States Of the sultans
Greek doctor.
''Mavro' was asked at Delmonico's about killing Of
Armenians by the Turks.
He said: ''Armenians; oh yes Armenisns But by the
way we are hare in New York. Where your Indans7
see no Indians ["
Thus, instead Of directly answering the Americans
question to why the Turks kill many Armenians the
polite Greek Turkish "Mao asked the American how it
happened that New York had killed off all the Indians
Suppose early in the last century when our star Of
re on It's way West was DISCRIMINATING the Indians that
some power had come along and talked Us as talk
to the different nations In Europe saying: "Hold the
land belongs those Indians We going to protect the
different tibes-clay eaters Apaches Navajos Each race
snail have its government republic and 1--we happy free
from interference by you d0mineering gentlemen
What wOald have happened? Do you think the benevo-
nt power seeking to protect little Indian nations against
hs apacious paleface would have succeeded In building
up Indian republics?
Gould they have found among the Indians human bricks
ont Of which build nation? Gould they have supplied
hsld those bricks together?
Probably not
You win find that the effort at off and extsmporan
eCus nation building in Europe win BE- somethng Of dis
appointment
The Italians are not going to allow Jugoslavs or any.
body else to have and to control permanently the eastern
side Of the Adriatic.
The Italians and the Romans back Of them represent
GOVERNMENT AND POWER. You cannot successfully
oppose them with nationality made on paper.
When the white people here they found certain
Indie
minated eating clay and ocusts and often eaten alive by
the superior Indian races
The white races are like Indian races in every respect
Some win and others 60 down
The that have up in the immediate past will
stay up IN the immediate future.
nation Is not made by what you write on paper, or
put INTO constitution, or trace out on the map
Notions are made by what goes inside the skulls Of
Nationaes apparently grow old too feeble to retain
even the form Of government.
Dig In the earth anywhere around the Mediterranean
IA Asia and one after another you VIII uncover layers Of
earth and buildings representing what were ruling powers
ans and say them Arse be free, govern yourselves
have seapors democracy says it. is fne sounds well reads
wall.
You might as well go out into the graveyard and say
above the tombs Dg yourselves out ladies and gentle
Arise shake out your shrouds walk and do business
Democracy says it !"
II you dug IN the graves and pulled out the cOrpses
they couldn't walk
nations that have died and tell them they are freebut
they won't walk, or govern.
About all that you can do is to stop brutality check
autocraey open the field Of opportunity the greatest
ability police the earth as you police great ctySand let
the best men win.
The child that is to be richer than Rockefeller the in
yeor be greater than Edison the leader of men more
powerful than any ever nown-an these are born and viii
them
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