The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-09

ence and security and mutual confidence
and cooperation But how are these
secured7 Certainly none OF them can
be secured by any material processes
whatever.
"Once for all Germany has proved that
the foundations Of national greatness
cannot be laid In cold blooded self-inter-
est. She thought up to the very limit
Of human ingenuity that scientific
efficiency based upon knowledge OF econ
omic laws would bring pcrmanence and
mower. But IN doing this she built her
house upon the sand. and The winds
biev and the floods came and beat upon
that house and II fell, and great was the
fall OF It. God was neither architect nor
builder 70 they labored in vain that
built II.
"The forces that control national
destines are spiritual. Material pios-
perity does not bring permsnence---too
much of II brings decay. Self-interes,
does not bring cooperation. Dividing
tho spoil neither makes nor strengthens
friendships. Trade does not bring con-
hdence. II 10 confidence that brings
trade. Armies have often destroyed
nations they were Get to guard.
I'm short, permanence Is an attribute
OF tho spirit and not Of the flesh. II
there 10 strength In a nation II 10 because
there IL strength in the heart OF the
people. II there is confidence It IL be-
cause there Ia truth and honor. II there
/, is safely II lie because there is Justice
and good faith. II there Is cooperation
II is because there Is devotion to some
high and ;chivalrous ideal
Praters and Posers Are Useless.
THE world has no use for the
dilettante idealism that pirates and
poses. that meets In luxurious drawing
rooms In evening dress to fiirt with
Bolshevism as a dangerous but fasci-
mating pastime, as children play with
| fire. These are enemies OF this repub-
lie and they should be dealt with an
enemies. And we have as little use for
| the we'll meaning idealist whose passion
| for huma nifty blinds him to realities;
| who has not the daring to face the facts
OF life, nor the good sense to see that
the tyranny of numbers Is worse than
| the autocracy Of any king.
'Tt Is not counsel OF wisdom. but a
counsel of insane folly that would put
the control OF State and society in the
hands Of the proletarlat. We know
| what 1t means. II means government
| by the idle and improvident and pay
| ment by the industrious and prudent;
power to the ignorant and obscurity to
the wise; rewards TO the incompetent
| and burdens to the shoulders OF the
capable and enterprising.
Thrift IL not unthrift. Industry and
idleness are not the same. There Is no
substitute for brains. Ability to govern
is no mans birthright A thousand
fools do not make one wise man. nor a
Thousand knaves man Of honor.
| "Vapors thrown off by an overfed
faulty Of mind are sometimes mistaken
for visions. We must beware equally OF
the idealism that spurns the lessons OF
experience and the materialism that ig.
nores the life of the soul. People before
now have been shaken out of their self
complacency to find that their Ctopiar
dream OF reconstruction was a hideous
nightmare of disqualification and con-
| fusion.
These perils are not impending in our
own America, but they have brought
| some OF the. strongest nations OF the
| world to the brink ofyruin. We are not
immune. The germ Of disorder Is nc
| reepecter OF nations. 1t is the faith thai
has won this war-faith in n righteous
| cause, faith that saw and provided al
| that human power could provide, and
that trusted where II could not see. 1t Is
the faith Of our fathers. ,.-.
What Is the America or our dreams.
Is it n red republic that has thrown
| away all the rich gains of the past
| where democracy has become a prole-
tartan rabble, where liberty has become
a madness. and brotherhood a bloody