Arizona republican., 1918-02-04
Old Words With New Meanings


 We have always understood patriotism to be love of country, and loyalty be willingness to serve the country to make sacrifices for it, and de- mocracy to mean the rule of the people by them selves The war has brought to us not contrary meanings of these terms, but elaborated meanings. Loyalty means service by the individual either by choice not and patriotism love of country actively expressed. What fs loyalty and what is patriotism left for the majority to decide The word willingly" to the individual is stricken out it is also stricken the minority. Those who insist upon the retention of that word advo- cates of form of anarchy. The anarchist may be a patriot a loyaist if it suits him to be so.
 Some has said that man. however good O wise is to be trusted with the power to another That statement has a bearing only on human slavery and not upon the government of, by or for Every must be ruled by another man or other acting as agent or agents the majority. Unless that is have democracy or autocracy but anarchy again.
 The government of the majority may not be satis- factory to the minority and if the minority vert itself into a majority it may change it. It may change the very form of the government It may substitute monarchy for democracy, and whoever opposes that change or any change pro- posed by the majority is disloyal So loyalty is to the majority and not to the mere area of a country to it's old institutions It is always to the powers that be, the representives of the majority when it last spoke.
 Throughout the war, so far the United States has anifested greater loyalty, more nearly perfect loyalty, than any other nation Individuals have al- most without exception done the things they told to do. They have gone into the military service they have submitted to taxation always will ingly. They have sometimes murmured, but there has never been 9 thought of revolt. They have some tiD1as who though not chosen for this gigantic task were nevertheless the leaders. But the questioning has never taken the form of disobedience. The rule of the majority has been at all times recognized
 But dispyalty has raised it's head in both auto 2ratc Germany and democratic Great Britain. As 70 the former it may be said that the minority, not If numbers, maybe, but of power, has had no other means of expression than by strikes intended to em- 1arrsss the majority, that is the government, the representative of the majority
 In Great Britain a minority group of working men, is questioning the government and threatening 10 embarrass and obstruct it by means of a strike unless it's demands are complied with It conplains that unusual burden is placed upon it and that it must be removed. It is just as disloyal for this group to oppose the government it would be for any individual to oppose because he was bearing more of the burden of war than his neighbor, and burdens are necessarily unequal. Our man is chosen for the trenches and another is left in safety and parative comfort at home The former might insist that either he should remain home or his neighbor should be made to go to war Such demand upon the government would be unreasonable than that of group any minority, large or small that the government shall abandon it's plans and accede to the will of the minority
 The willing individual patriot the individual loya- is the democrat always ready to bow to the will of the majority, is one to be admired but no country can rest it's safety such spontaneous willing ness. It must always be able to enforce loyalty by which, have said, is actual service from the unwilling.