The Washington times., 1920-12-26
ShauU Urges America
To Join Germany and
Russia hPeace League
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plosivc.
Parliamentary remonstrance has
no effect. At the last general cleo
ton Lloyd George, bent on secur-
ing an overwhelming majority at all
costs, took the line of least resist
ance and fought on u program Of
hanging the Kaiser and making
Germany pay the war costs to the
last shilling" though the first was
dramatically and the second eco
nomically impossible. But the cleo
torato, including millions of newly
IenfranchiSed women, all still men
tally weakened and morally depraved
by the war fever, did not know this,
and every candidate who shared their
ignorance and rancor, or, knowing
better, did not scruple to practice
on them, had only to pledge himself
to support Lloyd George to receive
his coupon" as it was called, even
as against opponents who had done
distinguished service in the field but
were none the less denounced as
Slackers, towards, pro-GermanS.
pacifistS and what not by holders OF
coupons.
The result was that Lloyd George
found himself in power at the cost of
having to play down to such a COL
lection of the politically unfit as
even modern foolhood suffrage had
never before assembled in the West
minister legislative chamber.
These gentlemen not only regard
lawlesS violence as a normal method
of government but cannot always be
restrained from undertaking re-
priSalS with their fists as a method
of debate in the House of Commons
itself. Their ignorance is not only
invincible but malignant, as igno-
rance always becomes when it yields
military power.
Almost any political mischief is
therefore possible until the next gen.
eral election, and the minister who
announces it is sure of being cheered
in the House of Commons in direct
proportion to its mischievousness.
TASK OF AMERICA.
Now. though nothing that has
reached vs. here suggests that the
Presidential or any other American
election fell to the level of the last
English general election, yet |, being
neither Englishman nor American,
have no patriotic illusions TO blind
me TO the fact that when you take
civilized mankind in blocks of mil
lions, no block is better or worse
than any other block, and ! conclude
that the clectioneering device of
appeal TO ignorance, not to say
occasionally an appeal to black
guardism, must have been practiced
more or less in America, too, as it
has been practiced in France and
everywhere else in Europe since the
great inversion of normally moral
order in 1914.
Therefore what would impress on
America is that, whereas no adc-
quately instructed person expected
anything better from European
states, with their Kaisers and aristo-
diplomatists, governing classes" and
ambitious opportunist prime minis
tiers, Mr.. Wilson had succeeded in
arousing expectations that America
would uphold the far-sighted scicn-
tifc policy which is in the long run
the only possible alternative TO poll
cies OF determination.
Campbell said years ago that
Hope, for season, bade the world
farewell.
And Freedom ,hrickcd when kosci.
usko fcll"
IiI. was an ggrtHtlou. Hope
still rcignci eternal in the human
breast without troubling itself much
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