Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-28
REASON FOR COURAGE TO-DAY.

The great question in the mind of
every thinking person today Isl How
is the problem presented by radical
ism to be solved? BY radicalism is
meant the demand that the hand
workers shall rule, to the exclusion
of all other classes of human society
The unrest at the present moment
is menacing, not to say terrifying, and
we approach the year 1920 with APP
prehenson. But we know that all the
problems confronting us will be solved
right, in the end, and that eventually
the human race will attain a unity
that so far has not been achieved.
When st, John was on the mount OF
revelation he reported that he had
reached state of being where "the
first earth and the first heaven were
passed away. and there was no more
sea"
The ocean had always stood in the
mind of the ancients for the concept
of separation in contrast to the real
unity of the race, and for the tossing,
changing, fluctuating waves of human
opinion in contrast to the concept of
the truth at the heart of humanity's
being,
What the revelator saw was a state
of being where the old separating
things had gone and where fluctuating
and changing human opinions had
given way TO certainty and unity.
In its last analysis this is the ideal
OF true democracy, for which we are
all striving in a cropping way But
however uncertain cur way may be at
this time. the separations will final
~ be lost in one comprehensive
unity the old conflict of human opin-
ions will be swallowed up in the truth.
The prophet of old---or seer if you
prefer the the term-heard the sound
of the future in the roar of the many
voices joined in one. There was no
more sea and the many voices of hu-
mainly were gathered up "as the voice
of a great multitude, and as the voice
of many waters, and as the voice or
many thunderings." These voices were
a unit They uttered only one word.
Out of the muck Of the past, the
storms of theological and scientific
controversy; out of the general ignor-
ance and superstition; out of the self
ishness and the lust for power; out of
the rule of kings and potentates, and
the resulting wars and destruction, rise
the democracy of the future in which
there is no separating sea and no di-
vided opinion-but the unified human
race. Some time, somehow, it will
emerge.
The error made by the socialist Of
today and by the misguided BolshevistI
tends to cause more separation-to
separate into classes. instead of draw
ing them together in the mass, Democ-
racy cannot become class scheme Of
things, neither can it become party.
Monarchy, aristocracy, plutocracy
and privilege distract the spirit of true
democracy. for they know that it isl
certain to destroy them. 1t cannot toll
crate classes or distinctions
This now seems far-off dream
and ideal, and humanity can only do
it's hest and work toward the end for
which God intended it But in times
of stress-we are in such time now
we can look toward the great light
house over the stormy sea to a world
where there "shall be no more sea,
and where the voice of the future
rises as the voice of a great multi
tude."
1t may be ages away from the earth
as we know it. but il may be nearer
than we think. Thinking back the
other way, we sec that II has not been
SO long ago that the fathers struggled
so desperately to set a feeble and
loosely knit republic among the mon
arches and aristocracics of an auto
cratic world. There is every reason for
congratulation and courage.