The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-18
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Orall the eloquent phrases put for
ward by the agRrieyed radicals OF
tho hour mono holds a greater CON
tent Of sheer buncombo than the talk
OF peoples" as opposed TO repro
sentAtives" The talk la childish In
most cases The New Republic
prated Of the Caesars" OF the peace
conference only a short while ago.
and undoubtedly thought II was talk
ing sense. Tho president is ever
an peRling from the rulers" TO the
people" and insisting that we must
have peace OF the peoples" not
or their governments" And Mr.,
oswald Garrison Willard. who let's
not his paclfist left hand know what
his right Is doing, bitterly stamps
on tho league Of nations because
1t does not provide plebicltes every
quarter hour
Now, Just how much truth IL there
H. this talk? What docs the record
show? what OF Italy? The prosi-
dent appeals from Premier Orlando
10 tho people nj italy, and they rise
up and demand Fiumc. An over
whelmlng majority In italy wants
exactly what Premier Orlando is
standing for That is why he holds
his Job That II why most repre-
seutatiyos hold their jobs. The sys-
TEN does not work perfectly-no sys-
tenn OF government works perfectly,
Hut nine times out OF ten your demo-
clatlcally elected statesmen repre-
sent the wishes OF his people He has
TO- Even Mr.. Wilson is not com
plctcly inaccessible.
= Another conspicuous Illustration
was tho last British election. The
radicals complained bitterly about
the dictatorship OF Lloyd George.
The Laborites were hailed as the
deliverers Of the world by all the
parlor Bolsheviks OF both hemis-
pheres. Yet when the election was
held the Labor candidates were
showed under. Not a single one of
their conspicuous leaders was elect
ed or course, a hundred alibis were
brought forward. But the fact was
unmlstakahle that tho people OF
England did not think the radical
thoughts the radicals wished them
20 think
The Monroe doctrine is the best
illustration here Mr.. Wilson thought
so poorly OF Il that he ignored II In
lllF IlThi uThli VR Aflt CONNHnHA
when number OF senator's began
TO protest the radicals chattered with
rage wait I'LL you hear from the
people" they cried. And Mr.. wilson
dropping in for moment. said
Amen" Yet tho more the people
were heard from the louder came the
demand cfor the Monroe doctrine
Every observer came back with the
same report. And. finally. even Mr.
Taft and Mr.. Wilson were persuaded
that. right or wrong. the people must
have the Monroe doctrine.
The truth IL. OF course that when
the radicals talk OF the people"
they don't mean n majority OF the
people NJ all They mean nothing
more than their own little group
OF thinkers. Wish is father 10 the
thought, and, being utterly intelll-
gent and quite dchumanized. they
know less than nothing OF what the
majority Of folk are thinking and be-
lieving
We recall an Illustration. The
question nationalism was up for dis
cusSion IA the days before the war
before @ft,le club OF grave radicals
An interloping visitor remarked that
In hts observation there was nos sin .
gle issue to which the vast majority
of people responded so swiftly and
vIvldly as patriotism. This is a sim
Cere and exceedingly able radi-
cal a woman. treated with
good-natured amazement declar-
ing that In her view no
BODY paid any attention 10 patriotism
nowadays Her own pet belief she
had fastened upon the whole world.
on the purely practical side, no
body has invented system OF hold
ing frequent pIeblcites worth any
thing In a nation OF many millions
Most difficult OF all 10 submit to
the people directly are the questions
of peace and war which will not walt
for prolonged discussion and which
change complexion daily The only
alternative Is the representative sys-
en-, which has many faults but which
does bring some Intellectual pro-
crsses to bear and which does IN tho
main, represent. as our friends the
radicals are finding out TO their in
tense disgust and grief
But the radical himself does really
believe In the doctrine he breaches.
Witness his determination TO find
excuses for Lenine's dictatorship,
IAnine being man who holds not
merely elections shall he occasional,
but there shslr be no elections at
all.