The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-02-03
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
In Europe Follow the Great
World War;
NEW, GREAT FORCES At WORK
Demand for New Order Of Things 10
Universal and Reactionaries Merely
Swell the Rising Tide Of
Discomfort,
Article ".
BY FRANK coMERFoRp.

BY FRANK coMERFoRp.
The most obvious thing in Europe u
the changed attitude Of the people,
and yet there are many, particularly
In the conservative, employing class,
who refuse to see. There are none 80
blind as these. While they close their
eyes and minds to the obvious, the
change goes on. 1t Is not idle rhetor.
ic to say that new great forces are at
work. OF course you cannot see the
forces any more than you can see the
grass growing, but you can see the
effects. You can measure the charac-
ter Of the forces.
Everywhere 1 found people talking
about a new Order. Men separated
by hundreds of miles are thinking and
talking the same ideas. It startled
me to hear the same ideas up in the
Balkans that had heard in France
and England. I did not meet any one
who was able to give me q clear, COM
plete meaning of the phrase. but 1t u
on the lips Of everyone. 1t has q
meaning, and time will produce plan.
The people are forward looking-they
are thinking, waiting for something to
happen. They have faith that 1t will
happen and that it will bring great
good to the human race. Every one
seems confident that some great COM
pensation must and will come out Of
the siege Of suffering through which
they have passed. II they were not
20 earnest. so sane. 20 determined
about 1t I should have interpreted
their enthusiasm as fantasy.
A meaningless minority Of reaction
aries scorn and scott at all talk Of a
new Order. These are the backward
looking men Of big business, the stand
patters in politics. They are out OF
touch with the times; they think the
real world is the little circle in which
they live. They are the barnacles on
big business. They smugly set down
all talk Of change as bolshevism
Fortunately the real leaders Of BUSH
ness are breaking away from this
point Of view. Progressive, human and
open minded, they see and know that
unrest is a problem and that it must
be solved. They are paying heed to
the complaints Of the workers. They
admit that there is justice back Of the
complaints. Instead Of arguing coer-
cion, they are talking concession. They
know a change has come, they want
to meet 1t.
New Order Must Come.
A new Order will come. The one
question that is bothering the minds
Of men who are awake to the change
is, will it come through revolution OF
through evolution. The greatest friend
Of revolution is the stubborn employ
q who refuses to see the change, &C
cepts things as they are, and insists
t,pon the use Of force as the only cure
for unrest.
Money is a gross thing when com
pared with human life. To mention
Europe's financial losses in the same
breath with her dead and wounded
seems sordid, but 1t 10 an everyday
world and in 1t money has its logica
place. Since the war some people arr
thinking that money has had too i'm
portant q place In the world. It nal
been charged with pushing man out O
his place, but bills must be paid ant
Europe needs money. The war cos
billions and billions Of dollars. Nil
lions Of men had to be clad and shod
billions and billions Of cartridges ant
shells, rifles. cannons. airplanes. ships
were made. Europe owes the money
How Will she pay It: where Will sh
ret 1T It Is q question that even tn
visest and most optimistic Of men u
Europe hesitate to answer. Som
wonder, is there an answer
Europe has borrowed until her In
terest charge today is almost As larg
AZ her whole cost of governmental &C
ministration was a few years ago.
heard Lloyd George say that Englan
faced q yearly interest charge OF tire
hundred million pounds. Another on
cjal told me that this interest chare
that England must pay each year
nearly one hundred million pounds
year larger than the cost OF admins
tr.tion was at the time Of the Boz
var. Only the other day her intere'
was due ON some loans from the Unite
states and she was forced to defaul
and our government charged the !
terest to the principal and passed u
day Of payment on. In the meantin
the pound 10 going down In vain
When I was on the Continent II n
reached 34.14 Today it Il under $S.e
and steadily going down.
France Ii In even q worse pllgi
The banks are loaded with governme
paper. She has made no provin'
By taxation to pay her debt. l W
told on every hand that any enort
impose q tax would bring on revol
tion. II 10 said that her DEBT q
reached the startling figure Of %
for every man. woman and child
the country. When / left Cherbou
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