South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-24
HITS PROFITEER
AS REAL CAUSE Of
WORLD UNREST
British Leader Declares Sub
StitutiOn of Public Service
for Private Gain, Is Cure.
BY ARTHUR HENDERSON. VI. T..
Late member Of British Ministry,
Recently reelected To British
Parliament

LONDON. oct TITO thought
ful observer organized society today
appears 10 Doe undergoing "a process
Of dissolution. Unrest is literally
worldwide. every people beng dis
turbed and unsettled to- "a deerec
hitherto unknown.
In some parts of tho world on.
dered government is at am end I'm
Western Europe. in France. Bel
GUM, Scandinavia. Italy Spain. and
Portugal. and not less in Britain the
masses have felt the impact Of ,iiy
revolutionary movement that origin
ated in Russia
In different countries unrest ha'
found expression In various forms.
iu revolution. in riot strikes and
threatened strikes. in political prop
uganda. In mass action of organized
workers. All these have contributed
10 the feeling that the world unrest
is the signal Of tremendous changes
I'm the organization and control of
the affairs of mankind. The war has
brought about "a total crisis i'm hui
man affairs and since the Armistice
the crisis has developed rapidly
These revolutionary manifesto
tons universal i'm their range. indi-
cate the presence i'm society Of fun
damental evils with which the
brotherhood movement. if it is TO
eive effect 70 the inspiration of it's
democratic gospel. is vitality con-
ccrned The development of political
institutions have not kept pace with
the growth Of democracy Much of
the unrest IN the more highly-or-
ganized countries is attributable TO
this fact.
Class Rule Still Real
Democracy. conscious of it's pow
or. found itself unable 10 obtain any
real control of the machinery in
government. Glass rule in politics
Notwithstanding the existence OF a
broadly democratic franchise. is still
a reality; what were called the pos
sessing classes, through social infiu-
ence, the power OF money. and their
political monopoly of the higher
branches of education and their con-
troll OF the press, contrive repeated
~ 10 defeat the popular will on al
lARet every AiSN 'ldSo UNAlAlNdA lHNut
in which the rights and liberties of
the common people are involved. I'm
countries still in a state Of political
pupilage. like Egypt and India. poll
tical discomfort has produced a Wig
orous nationalistic movement. which
IS becoming more and more difficult
90 keep in the path OF constitutional
agitation. Some communities claim
ed the right OF characterization.
and are prepared 10 assert it by
methods of bloodshed and violence.
The soviet Experiment.
Constant Illustration of democratic
demands for a real share in the
business OF government oud genuine
popular control over national policy
has produced two serious results
one result Is an attempt 90 substi-
tute FOR the parliamentary system "a
new political method.
In Russia and Cfor n time) I'm
Hungary and even ion Germany. poll
tica1 democracy aS understood i'm
western Europe has been suppressed
"a by soviets of workers councils.
With a parliamentary system these
councils have nothing i'm common.
They are ha~ed on restricted fran
Uhise. and are aVowedy % the inter
est 81 class dictatorship.
&c would be a mistake. 20 think