Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-01-02
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movement Of the peace problem.
1t ia not a thing that can be dis.
posed of by a wave Of the hand.
Just "a the war involved certain
fundamental and antagonistic
principles that we're broader than
the mere contact OF Germany
with other nations, 90 the settle.
ment must consider those reTa-
tions. When the war is whitfield
down to its motive it will be dis
covered that it was the old strug
gle between two ideals ofgovern.
ment, one the repu bile, the other
the monarchy. Germany has
been completely defeated. Mon
archy is overthrown, but democ.
racy is not established. For de.
mocracy ls not the eud Of the
struggle. Monarchy wasa stage
OF the advance from something
more chaotic. Democracy il. an.
other stage in the advance The
problem that is now confronting
the whole Of civilization is wheth.
er democracy shall be q social
democracy, a class democracy,
or even the extreme which runs
ultimately into state socialism,
anarchy or any OF the other
formslof government or lack OF
government. 1t is the lifelong
struggle between individualism
and community or state effortin
some form.
In this country we have inclin.
ed to- individualism. We have
given the Individual the greatest
possible rights. War came and
we at once took from the indlvid.
ual every right that the govern.
meht wanted to appropriate. We
went 90 far'that We have shown
that individualism is not capa.
BILE Of those things that must be
undertaken under certain condi.
tions. We have found that uni.
ted effort, with the suppression
Of the individual gets results
that individualisn cannot get,
We may call it what We will, but
it is the thing that.men call state
socialism. We shy at the name
OF socialism, but We practice it in
it's extrewe for the period of the
war. But it is q form Of social.
ism that works for results on q
big scale, but suppresses the in
dividual, and We want to get
back again toindividualism. In
Europe the Bolsheviki are trying
for q forlu of socialism. In Ger.
many socialism has beena dream
OF millions. In all OF Europe 90.
cialism in one form or another,
or under one name or another,
has been gaining remarkable
power. In this country the Ia.
Dor movement involves one oI
the first demands OF the socialist
theory, q better condition and a
more decisive voice for the work
er. -,.e-'...-- ..-~..
1t is not the terms Of peace
that the peace coniereuee, has tc
face. 1t is the disposal of thit
problem Of. the individual ano
the community orstate. It is th!
, time-long struggle..which has bro
ken down the control or the ma.
ter overShe slave, the monarch
!. over the subject, thebarron nveI
his vassal, the nobility over tin
surf, one man over the other ac'
cording to class. In each sncouu
/, ter the overload has gone down
| as he will in each new encounter
/. as he has done in this encounter
But how to adjust conditions Il
establish the most OF harmon.
, that can come out OF this war il
, the task now ahead. The indem
nifty Germany il to pay is
small feature for that is Q ten
porary affair. 1t will be levie'
and paid and forgotten. But tn
relation OF the German to til
world is q big feature, and th