The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-10
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920
TRUE DEMOCRACY AND TRUE
 INTERNATIONALISM


 In all the talk of saving the world for democracy" that has been proceed ing from high places, the determlna- tion has persisted to use the word democracy" in it's European, rather than ill it's true American selsC. True democracy finds it's expression in the republic; in representative govern ment That democracy safe for the world, providing both liberty and se cGrity, is the republicanism of the American Constitution. And the true internationalism, as this paper has often pointed out, is found in the peaceful residence under the Ameri- can flag, of all the varied elements of European race and nationality; If not merely their residence here, but their absOrbtiOn of common spirit of nationality based upon common conceptions of government rather than upon age old predilections and prejudices.
 The ideals of this true democracy this true internationaIism, were lost sight of even by those who were sup posed to represent America at the peace conference. No attempt was made to carry the ideals, of this country to Europe, but an effort was made to transfer the ideals of Europe to America. Neither true democracy nor world peace are consistent with the European system of caste and class, or racial and dynastic jealous ies and hatreds, of multiplication of nationalities, which lie at the bottom of European civilization, caused the world war, and remain as causes for wars yet to come.
 Curiously enough this truth which some Americans, steeped in European conceptions, are unable to understand, some European students of govern ment clearly comprehend. Lady Frances Evelyn Warwick, Countess of Warwick, seems to have a better com prehensiOn of fundamental American lsm than some of those who stand in the forefront of American public lifa. In 2 speech recently delivered she revealed an Understandin" of the eact that the existence of hereditary titles and caste based upon birth is not the mere unimportant survival of tradi- tiOn some of our Europeanized Amer jeans would have us believe, but that # Is symbol O. a s3 tenn entirely out of harmony with the underlying principles of Americanism,- that it is something, we may add for ourselves, with which we should not readily en- ter into partnership in any league of kingdoms and empires in which our national sovereignty is in any degree yielded Let Europe give evidence of real conversion to the doctrines of true demOcracy,-which are some thing more than patronizing the poor or rule by class conscious "proletar. 1ans," we surrender our own real democracy and genuine internal ism for the spurious and pretended sort.
 These words by titled English woman should be read by every American who wishes to have a truer understanding of what his own repub- lie stands for in the eyes of a com pretending foreign student of our in. stitutions.
 T deplore kingship-it is the eternal foe of peace. I see no security for Europe until democracy has grown up, learning to act as we'll as talk, until the prostitution of titles, honors, dec. erations and the rest, has been car ried so far that even the most ignor- ant can see them for what they have become, until the narrower patriotism has seen light of the international
 "The face of Europe is scanned and riddled with kingship and hereditary right. France alone, that nation of genius, has thrown it off But when I look across the Atlantic it is to mil-