The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-16

argue that the code Of morals which
exists among the rulers does not apply
10 the ruled. THE constitution does
not follow the flag. This is the JUS
LITIGATION Of all Imperialism. The En-
glish are in India because they have
the high command from heaven. The
evidence Of that command IS their ma
tural superiority to the natives Of In
dia. This they display to the world and
offer as the proof Of their divine mis-
sion. Z
We are in the Philippines because we
ourselves. Of course. being the judges,
are able TO do good to the people Of
those Islands. How strange it is that
these most enlightened people in the
world should come to the conclusion
that they have this heaven-sent CONE
mand.
Kings. emperors. kaisers and czars
depart and yet the idea that they have
represented dies hard. The feudal bar
on disappears and the industrial baron
takes his place. The barons Of the
olden time won BY the strength Of their
arms the place they occupied in socie-
| ty. They served purpose and had a
value in the social order of their day
But the time came when the title repre-
sented nothing but a tradition. The.
inheritor instead Of being an asset to
society became a burden. But, strange
to relate. he thought Of himself as
diyinely-gifted man, one who belonged
TO the class that has the god-given re-
sponsibility Of rulingthe world.
The industrial baron has passed thru
the same evolutionary process. He
claims as his divine right the power to
determine the conditions Of. life for
others. He knows. They do not, He,
with others Of his group, cannot under
stand why they should not be masters
of things and of men.
The strangest form this idea of SUI
pernaturaI power has taken is that
which is identified with color. A GER
tain group of men in the world boldly
say: I'VE are sent here to rule the
world" Ask them for their credentials
and they most modestly reply: Look
at US. Cans you see for yourselves
that we are white" There you have
lit. What reply can you make to the
man who affirms: This is a white
mans country and BY the Living God
we intend to rule" No king ever Of
fered more indisputable evidence of his
divine right than this. The man is
white. The country is his. Therefore
it is, as God ordained, white mans
country.
So, in all sorts of forms the thing we
4 thought was gone does survive. Famine
Ionce was sent by God. Now we know
it is not. We have the famine never
theless. Men-some men-do not like
1.-THE conditions Of their employment,
which is. after all, their life; they pro-
test in the only way they know. They
quit work. Then other men who are
the masters Of the conditions of then
lives say: ''You will come back. We
will starve you to it" And famine
not God-sent but man-sent, does the
work.
This is the fundamental contradic.
ton in modern society. We affirm Ii
one breath that the problems of society
are to be solved by men, In the mex
we say that the chosen few, who pos.
Y sess the proper credentials of race. co
lor or property, are the ones TO whom
the business Of solving the problems o
mankind is entrusted. 1t is this contra
diction that divides men into two clas
SEES; those who believe that all men to
: gether must solve the problems Of man
kind and those who believe that thi
; must be done by the few for the many
e The choice is essentially between au
? tocracy and democracy.-Arthur |
E Weatherly. in Unity" Chicago.
. "A WONDERFUL INVENTION