The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-11-14

manner that they were organized in
the case OF Belgium. BY tho use Of the
idle tonnage of these central empires
1t ought presently to be possible to lift
the fear Of utter misery from their op.
pressed populations and set their minds
and energies free for the great and
hazardous task of political reconstruc-
tion which now face them on every
hand. Hunger does not breed reform. IL
breeds madness, and all the ugly dis
tempers that make an orderly life i'm
possible.
For. with the eayi Of the ancient
governments which rested like incubus
upon the peoples of the central en-
pires has come political change not
merely. but revolution, and revolution
which seems as yet to assume no final
ana ordered form. but to run from one
fluid change to another, until thought"
fuf men are forced to- ask themselves,
with what governments and of what
sort are we about to deaf in the max
Ing or the covenants of peace, with
what authority will they meet us, and
with what assurance that they will
abide and sustain securely the inter-
national arrangements into which We
arc about to enter?
There is Here matter for no snail
anxiety and misgiving. When peace is
made, upon whose promises and II
easements besides our own Is 1t to
rest: ..
Let Us be perfectly frank with our
selves and admit that these questions
cannot be satisfactorily answered now
or at once But the moral Is not that
there is little hope for an early answer
that will suffice: 1t is only that we
must be patient and helpful and mind
full above all Of the great hope ard con-
fdence that lie at heart OF what Is TAX
ing place. EXcQSSaS m moth
ing. Unhappy Russia has furnished
abundant recent proof Of that Dis
order Immediately defeats itself. Ii ex-
cesses should occur. If disorders should
for a time raise It's head, a sober sec
ond thought will follow and a day Of
constructive action, IL we help and do
not hinder.
The present and all that il holds.
belongs to the nations and the peoples
who preserve their self control and the
orderly processes of their governments:
the future to those who prove them
selves the true friends of mankind. To
conquer with armies to make only a
temporary conquest, to conquer the
world by earning it's esteem Is to
make a permanent conquest.
81 am confident that nations that
have learned the discipline of freedom
and that have settled with self possess
sion to its ordered practice. are now
about to- make conquest or n WOrld
by the sheer power OF example and
OF friendly h~elpfulness.
1.-The peoples who nave just come
out from under the yoke Of an arbi-
trary government. and VINO are now
coming at last into their freedom Will
never find the treasures Of liberty they
are in search Of il they look for them
by the light Of the torch. They will
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 hold them steady until they find
themselves, and in the meantime il 1t
be possible we must establish a peace
that will justly define their place
among the nations, remove all e OF
their neighpors and OF their former
masters and enable them to live In Sc
curity and contentment when they
have set their affairs in order. l, 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 inc peaceful accom-
modations. If they do. we shall put
our aid at their disposal in every way
that we can. II they do we must
await with patience and sympathy the
awakening and recovery that will as
suredly come at last"