The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-03
A GRAIN OF SALT.

/ and better distribution would go Tar towards
correcting it. You cannot travel far in this
try without sensing hand on the reins still.
Somewhere there is power that is keeping the
bulk of the German people in the straight road.
Despite all their surface troubles you can feel
strong directing force in the nation.
In the meanwhile what of their form of govern
ment? Any man who predicts in these is on a
par with weather prophet in Texas, but it would
not surprise to wake up morning to
learn that the adherents of the Hohenzollerns had
sprung coup. Not until the storm has blown
over; not until peace is signed and order restored
of course-because the Hohenzollerns and their
ilk play it safer than that; but am firmly con-
WINGED that so long as the kaiser is permitted the
immunity he now enjoys the prospect of return
to his people constitutes a real menace"
Few have gotten closer to the heart of
things in this game, than has George Patullo.
He has been in England and France and Ger
many, studying the situation close at hand
Here, far from the center of forces that have
contributed to the world crisis it is not too far to
feel the truth of what Patullo says in his able
article. No one who watches events as they shape
themselves, no one who senses the unrest of the
people on every hand, no one who keeps his ears
to the ground, but realizes the truth of what
Patullo has to say.
There have been many significant happen
ings. In the stream of denunciation that follow
ed her (Germany's) defeat he says, ''who has
yet heard German leader denounce the kaiser
or attempt to fasten the responsibility HON
They have risen in their places to peel the hide
off Hindenburg and Ludendorff and all the mill
tary caste; they have charged the former min
istries with every perfidy and blunder of which
mankind is capable, but in all the mass of criti-
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emperor. Why? Are the orators and the pam
phleteers (of Germany afraid of comback that
might be disastrous for them? All of
which makes US believe that if the boches per-
ceived chance to regain their old military pres
tige they would rise to it as one man. > :
The only solution is education, and it will re-
quire couple of generations to eradicate the
poison from this bred"
But it must be borne in mind that the Ger
mans are not the only ones who need educating,
if we to hope for prevention of the disaster
such the world has just passed through.
We need to educate the people of
country to think AS a people entirely
too credulous. We are too easily led We are
too quickly drawn into party strifes and made
the tolls of political machinery
How many of the people of the United States
are really educated on public questions. How
many men and women know anything about the
principles of liberty? Too many of US look upon
liberty something closely akin to license, and
consider it not only privilege but our duty
to spend the most of time trying to prove our
inalienable rights to ignorance.
While we go carefree way, the Aliens who
come to this country are studying our laws, find
ing out the meaning of government. Go to any
city, and you will find night classes, where the
alien population acquainting themselves with
the laws of liberty.
1t has come to pass that our city governments,
our state legislatures, national congress are
largely in control of foreign population. 1t
is true that this country is largely made up of
immigrants from other countries, but because of
this, is no reason for stepping aside and turning
our country over to them.
This is free country, and that is the reason
the foreign hordes cross the seas to make their
home. No denies their inalienable right to
become part of this government, under the law,
but the people of this country have no right to
turn this country over to them, because of lack
of loyalty, lack of understanding, lack of educa-
ton on the part of those whose part it should re
to protect this country from the very influences
from which it is now suffering and which in time
may become disintegrating.
Education is the only thing that will save the
world from chaos. 1t is the only thing which will