Evening star., 1922-08-13
''AS [ SEE IT. "
Bv William Allen White.

has succeeded only in Justifylng the
French fear that Germany is implac-
able Great Britain tried to violate
the decencies by inordinate demands
for contributions from Germany and
now finds a bankrupt continent slow
ly lurching into anarchy America
sought to withdraw her moral sup
port from the world and lost her
moral sense at home. And without
vision the people perish.
The political manifestation of fear
and hate is as inexorable as the
political phase of any other state of
mind. Christendom is founded upon
credit. Credit is faith and good will
Bemove faith and good will from the
world and it will revert to the bar
barism from which Christianity as a
philosophy rescued the world. Rever-
sion to barbarism is primarily the
economic stature of those who let fear
and hate govern their lives. Until we
get back to some general acceptance
Of the Christian philosophy in our in
ternational relations, the jungle will
keep edging in upon shattered
Christendom, The Wilson ideal lies
moraldering in the grave. but its soul
goes marching on.
The fre-cent cigar is back. All
tre need no,o is to set BdAinger in
Uestigation going and put q Victor
Murdock back into Congress to re-
gain our lost paradise.
"Here We Raise Our Ebenezer.-
n LONG comes James H. Bennett, a
Chicago Board of Trade man,
with a message that will save
the world. He has sent it out as a
circular to various citizens Of the re-
public as sort of clarion call Of the
Amalgamated American Crawfish. The
circular contains notation from the
Chicago Journal of Commerce under
a head which reads:
Agitation May Wreck U. Ski
wants Told That Two Thousand Dem
agogues Preach Gospel Which Mem
aces Life of Nation"
The Journal of Commerce declares
that these 1000 nation-busters are
hammering away at the Constitution
of our fathers between Chicago and
the Rocky mountains. In the grain
belt, or among the farmers, to be
exact, which is to say in that terri
tory where there is an insistent de-
mand for laws to stop grain gambling
farm products by private monopolies
through the speculative market The
only trouble with the Chicago mans
statement is that it is too mild.
Twenty million would be nearer the
number of agitators against the pres
ent strangle-hold on agricultural! They
compose about all the agricultural
population, and they are certainly in
fected with feverish peeve.
Which is more or less beside the
point. The point is Mr.. Benefits s
message. 1t Is this: "Unless the old
line parties can rid themselves of So
cialistic parasites, the business in
terests of the country and the sub
stantia1 onest-to-God Americans
should organize a new party of con-
servatives, not progressives, and pro-
tect themselves"
There you are. Here is the Messiah
of the new gospel of business first!
What a grand parade the plug hat
brigade would make romping over the
land. How the honest-to-godders who
want to take price-fixing out of the
realm of supply and demand would
rouse the world by crying: "An power
to the grain gamblers soviet" 1t will
be a glorious moment for. the Ameri-
can eagle when it is discovered sit
ting patiently on a lot Of plutocratic
bald heads, trying to hatch a bird of
freedom from the solid ivory! A great
uprising Is this of Mr.. James E. Ben
nett of the Chicago Board of Trade.
All the double Al patriots bursting
indignantly out of Dun's and Brad
streets, glittering cascade of altru-
ism, would stir the voters to ribald
tears. why don't you striker" said
the indignant passenger to the sweat
ing horse-car driver on Main street,
as they waited on the switch for the
other car to Jingle past Strike. hell. ?