The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-05-14
AS We SEE IT.

perusal of the average daily paper gives for
many observations upon the general American mind One thrill
eaes upon democracy and oang by account Of an actual
happening nsgated poessed adherents of democratic pn-
cpes recorded the To us who view these a
counts daily and experience these quick changes OF motion there
who the contestant who for seeming eternity
between victory and defeat He pulls for the success OF his
favorte but at the time his mind myountay Tor
the defeat which lack of executive ability makes equally
possible as his
We fully believe that the democracy which is professedy
the American ideal Obanab and eagerly and clutch
hopefully at of such happenings to prove that
bids fair to attain that IDEAL it that the
chances for this attainment ouweghed by that spirit of sell
shness which manests itself in unwlngness that this
We believe with Thomas r. Marshall who says in recent
treatise on the aim of democracy that:
81" is not worth while to make world safe for anything
else but democracy Indeed is not need Special privilege
will make the world safe for itself without assistance.
heard the greatest of pesenday French philosophers say
that war France that had COST that it
had made real democracy where only the form thereof pev
democracy only that it had taken the war to make
in fact
However cunnngy enthusiastically you may write your
organic law and proclaim purpose unless both statute and
conduct crysze along organic lines your system but sounding
announce the of democracy laws which
confer equal PRIVILEGES guarantee equal protection and impose
equal penalties There can be none who may faunt the law the
Government is to remain democracy
Even those who are extremely s generous in forming ming their
of being in reality democracy And in the light of its
of practices it possible to wonder whether in its ultimate
achievement will become what it proclaims itself to be-
One wonder thus and take into full account the fact that
all progress slow and that evolution makes itself manifest only
through succeeding generations not by the short spans OF
months and yearly periods.
The actual adheents to democratic practices seemgy
allowed the forces which operate seshy firmly enench
themselves organizations and combinations close integral
factor national life that their removal will not easily be &C
compshed fact that public opinion which would maintain
closer application democracy unorgzed and its efforts
lack effective direction.
Now as never before American needs democratic practices
not preachments.
America faces the fact that behind the enlightened
world in education though her place in commerce made
scheme OF
She is also becoming of the fact that her con-
Germ for the needy abroad has run somewhat in excess OF her
which she has zeousy demanded for others The ynchng tor
turing and beings by ne n e the year year
aaons of thousand demagogues cannot blind an obseVan
History repeats itself And the peanence of nations de-
ponds upon the ness of the foundation stones upon which
their governmental structures rest.
Justice universal and as complete as efforts can
render it absolute essential for the OF nations That
nation whose governing heads realize this fact has, be-
that lack sealed its doom and guaranteed its descent by
gradual but stages into state from which it cannot easily
remove itself.
AS leader enlightened nations America stands unsul-
passed for her excellence production and her generosity con
bung to the worldly good But when considered in
terms of the history of the ages she represents only group
whose experiment government may furnish an added example
of the inability of the human animal to beyond the idea OF
purely selfish practice into full realization OF the leach Tor all
principle
There million of who love America We revere her
founders loyal her flag We inspired by the
makers of her history from the days of the earliest settlers who
pulled her forests and fought with Nature for place which
they might live in freedom to present day masters OF CON-
who total the value of their products in the billions
dollars and transport them over hundreds OF thousands Oh miles
of railroads.
breed the spirit of divine superiority in the majority OF
people who frequently by pleachment and practice de-
clare that might is right and power is everlasting.
We hope for the of the democratic mind which real
ICES laws which confer equal privileges guarantee equal
true democracy; but we realize that without sful organ
zaon it its organized opponent the sell
fish mind