The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17

4 IN sn,. 1. the democracy feels, IL
sMss{EAR xwah-Honsciousiy .excrywhere ano
100 81 ,s.,s ,AA,-.- 49, tx t'''t
E3i5sS q ,Ssnsss. Tessses' IS VIZ s9sS
Il II onSuRh even OF a BolsheSist rap
!. 4 hope to show iatsr =" @'N
ssS fnA and German examples
ssn pnnanneous and Permanent
SzN NJ ssaseee are now 20 many ifterna-
3fonnltst fnteiiectuals VINO lhlnA W.
kxO~ aaf nations by kno" ms -.
sH1N Is whom this popular patrio''Sifs
& 3SS.Sf.u,s1~+. WARE paradox. that m ost
\ - vary roughly sketch. 10: va.
4 80 df my subsequent argument; "Hs
II Es4Aink this rational or local spHlt
fnfnx both spontar sous and perH,H
i nnnf. m iuheres IN certain funoa-
y rSaAtAl facts of humanity ano IN III
1oerfng II we must once nloFe .t,
4TNonber9 what sociologtsts too often
4Seget--~&hat the citizen 49, 'hi"'S
4 S1Ier things man
Hon Ftfs. the plain man everywher'e
! lnn m instinct that these prov lhce"
q divisions are the places whete &c
snocrscy can really I've achieved. iie
does not always 8ual9ze me Feasoh.
/ bpn there always is reason ~ -
the fact that equality exists nlosI
COmplcteiy~ in relation 10 opF'V1s
things. ,,. a,,,
~
my piairer thar an aSricuttural IA
f1nrer sees II; and even q wh'te man
4 md black man are equal N seems
che difference between e4ac M"
rhfte. Now the citizen feels mat the
Aarnply things about which men noSe
Eel their equality are the innings Oh
the spot
Suppose we are considering me
ssnnnrrete case - one village living
6s3arrciy ~ grazing and dairy produce
About the fart that MIX comes tfotn
~ COW the villas ers ar9 really equal
i = = despof or niplofuatist can deceive
1 Yncm about such thinrs- They ho'n
\ tnasc truths to he self-evident ne
\ village drunkard knows where milk
comes from as well as the FliIa6e
II tfairyuar,. though ne may feel more
about where X goes
Nh Direct Government
IF -AN5 deYnorracy ia really the most
dire.c, and decer, government in such
u matters because when the udish ~
attacked by some trick or fao oi
.faaAion the attack is much more hRs~
n 10 come from minority tnah
mAjority- .,..,,
.*.uf the sexes involves nilkin6 the QUA
u ~ well a. the COW. the common sense
ss ~. the Village viii III Ike the very pest
d CON rneut that could be made
q And some approaching eQua2ty
urfu remain in varying de trees con-
4 tefning all the problems connected
with milking cows.
II La not true that equality VIII ok"
III about the project OF copying sonie
4 ,airfanY community which drinks M
t1ifk or elephants: or some schene
~fov milking the whales in the Norih
go Teaching these distant things
4 there fiat orco inferiority ana su-
peffSrft~, the superiority Of the fnan
Who has seen an elephant or sailed IN
the North Sea
Tnere ifs established an HF'Ntoc' A.
CftraveferE.
And this principle. which have here
vaarreX Ia its simplest form means
I that cosrno oolt tanism must al"a.k ~
4 nrtstocratIc II is only tire rtch Wht
..au. AFFORD 10 bc International ano ina
A. tbs hrst reason why the poor ar'
xsnerai1y national.
Il. Us fuil application to the proh'ef,'
II the peace conference can be tc.'
loved up later but Its general apnA-
.atson II obvious especially touchina
the nnarchic conditions OF the new
Russaa or the new Germany
when certain people In eastern IA
~arn say they can rule themselves anf
rrt M some democratic institution II
t6ssr lara, they are talking sense an
saying snmethinr rational even IL they
ara doing something violent
But when they offer to set up
democratic diplomacy over al ian
nm international net work OF repre-
sentatives" covering the whole wore
tnen thev arc talking nonse and deal
snr with the know not what
Tney y~igit set aUt diplomats. br
they would eertain'~ not send on
Democrats
TO-, l,ss,Torr.nttc.
The system would oe much too dfp'o
ynsti- 70 he 4rHaorratic. Tho systef'
v-s,,fs n~e0rls- &c the worst and mos
ssrre,ivr Of the wealthy to be th'
wire pufsers of the world. This disttnc
ton h worth defining for II cuts In
contrary direction TO much curren
talk.
In things like the Russian revo,n
tts,n IL Is rather the part that is HE
rnf which Ia fegitugate because IL 81
local 1t Ia the part that is legal. th'
ATTEMPT TO draw up cosnopoiftai
code for all nations that Is to be re-
sisted TO the death.
At least they murdered men thel
knew something about, they are Try
ing to rescue or benefit man they knew
0cthing whatever about men VINO re
4 fused 10 be rescued
There Is a great deal more to b.
aid tor Boishevist riot than Tor BOT
UAeyist ru,a
Hat there In another fact Of praeti
Cd psychology which convincea m
that the normal man must always b
The national man. As the former fac
Applics moro especially 10 the wh'
\ eAgterr 1ands this applies more e-re
IL cAalIy to the civilized western lands
but both laws apply 10 all ianos.
T1fts Second truth may roughly b
defined by saying that no normal mo
wfII accept an abstraction an the com
vgete cory OF an actually. His re-
fwsni IN intellectual as well as tnsttnc
n.y., for u Is nearly always an in
complete copy.
- mean by this that certain virtue
evMpOrata when you attempt T.
st4nnssase a national tradition into al
g~ International treaty,
ss Here again we must feel the citizei
q - = man and his public life as II
iynDuvn private life.
ssaa a man travelling in strange cttie
n may feel homesick fer HIS house IL
tlNA country. out he will only say h
ss wn0ta his home, and Tao word Til
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