The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-11-15
all the ugly ditempers that make
an ordered life impossible.

all the ugly ditempers that make
an ordered life impossible.
For with the fall of the ancient
governments which rested like an ia
cCbcs Upon the people of the Central
Powers, has come political change not
merely, but revolution, and revolution
which seems as yet to assume no anaf
and ordered form, but to run fron
one fluid change to another, untik
thoughtful men are forced to ask
themselves, with what governments
and OF what sort, are we about t0
deal in the making OF the covenants
of peace. With what authority Wilt
they meet US, and with what assurance
that their authority will abide and
sustain securely the internal arrange
ments into which we are about to en-
ter? When peace is made, upon whose
promises and engagements besides
our own is it to rest?
Let us be perfectly frank with or
selves and admit that these questions
cannot be satisfactorily answered now
or at once. But the moral is not that
there is little hope Of an early answer
that will suffice. It is only that we
must be patient and helpful and mind
full above all of the great hope and
confidence that lie at the heart of
what is taking place. Excesses az
complish nothing. Unhappy Russia.
has furnished abundant recent proof
of that Disorder Immediately defeats:
itself. If excesses should occur andg
disorder for time raise it's head, az
sober second thought will follow and
day Of constructive action, if we~
help and do not hinder.
The present and all that it holds
belongs to the nations and the peo-
pies who preserve their self-controE
and the orderly processes Of thei-
governments; the future to those who
prove themselves the true friends OF
mankind. To conquer with arms iS
to make only a temporary conquest
to conquer the world by earning it's
esteem is to make permanent conquest
l am confident that the nations that,
have learned the discipline Of free
dom and that have settled with self
possession to its ordered practice are
now about to make conquest of the
world by the sheer power of example
and of friendly helpfulness.
! The peoples who have just come.
out from under the yoke of arbitrary
government and who are now COM
| ing at last into their freedom wiz
never find the treasures of liberty they
are in search Of if they look for them
by the light of the torch. They wifi
find that every pathway that is stained
with the blood of their own brothers
leads to the wilderness, not to the
seat of their hope. They are now
! face to face with their initial test.
We must held the light steady untif
they find themselves And in the
meantime il = ha We nrst establish
a peace that will justly define theivr
! place among the nations, remove alF
fear of their neighbors and of their
former masters, and enable them to
live in security and contentment when
Z they have set their own affairs in or
der I, for one, do not doubt their
purpose or their capacity. There are'
some happy signs that they know and
! will choose the way of self-control and
peaceful accommodation. If they do
! we shall put our aid at their disposal
in every way that we can. If they
& do not we must await with patience.
and sympathy the awakening and re-
covery that will assuredly come az
last.