The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-08-14


Similar language might be used in
characlerizing the bloody struggle
now going on in Russia. Perhaps
the greatest danger Of the future is
that Of war Of classes within nation
al boundaries. II is not designed
10 use the phraseology Of an alarm
Isl, but great calamities often come
from direction little suspected
We shall be very unwise il we fail
to take note Of the dangers lurking
in the present state of affairs in all
nations Of the world. Our country
is no exception. In many respects
our prospects are more hopeful than
those Of most Of the nations of the
old world. But we hear mutterihgs Of
the storm on every hand. The
present relations of capital and
labor, and other concrete questions.
growing out of these relations, con-
slilue greater menace to us as a
people than did our war in Europe,
even during its darkest stages. We
are 80 much more closely connected
with our fellow men of various
classes and in all sections of the
country than was the case in the
times Of our forefathers, that CO.
operation, as against selfish COM
petition, is far more necessary than
In times gone by. We have no as
surance of safety in the future while
it is possible for thousands OF
prOiteers TO make miliOnaires Of
themselves because of their coun-
lry's troubles, and through the i'm
position of extra burdens upon the
masses of their fellow citizens. We
can have no well-grounded hope Of
continued peace so long as combina-
tiOns representing different trades
or employments can hold up the
business of the country and bring
woes TO their fellows through
strikes entered into at the COM
mand Of the autocrat or an oil
garchy, who have been constituted
as their leaders. We do not well to
vent all our indignation upon either
class. in an emergency so threaten
ing as that which our country is
now facing. SO long as the princi-
pal emphasis is laid upon the term,
The Brotherhood of Engineers"
THE Brotherhood of ShOpmen,"
The Brotherhood of Ironworkers,"
THE Brotherhood of Coal Miners"
and many others which might be
named, rather than the Brother
hood of Man and the Fatherhood Of
God, there is danger before us.
There is not at hand a ready pan
acea for all existing ills and threat
ened dangers. Ii would be rash to
prescribe an immediate remedy for 4
all the evils which we are facing.
For long time to come, every gen.
Grafton will have weighty problems
TO solve. Probably few of us are
ready to adopt as our own the doc
trines of the Socialists. However,
with the rapidly increasing depend
ence of every individual upon his
fellow men, human government
must perforce deal with an increas-
ed number of mOmentous questions,
and in reality become stronger and
stronger in its requirements. Until
human nature becomes freer from
dishonesty and greed, individual
interests must be made more ana
more subservient TO the needs Of
the organized whole. The demands
of the entire sum of our country
men for the present must be ex-
pressed through our constituted
government. 0ftentimes force will be
required to carry out governmental
plans. Be it ours to see to it that our
government is sc carried on and
such persons chosen as officials, that
through their acts the best senti-
men' IF the people may find its
expression.