The daily star-mirror., 1923-07-27
POINTS ROAD AWAY
FROM REVOLUTION
WOODROW WILSON SAYS CIVIL
LIZATION MUST BE REDEEMED
SPIRITUALLY

Boston-(A- P)-Former President
Woodrow Wilson, writing under the
caption: 1.-THE road away from re-
volution," flor the August number of
the Atlantic Monthly, sounds note of
warning that civilization cannot sur
v1ve materially unless it be redeemed
spiritually
This is the first time since his ill
ness that Mr.. Wilson has made pub
lie his views of present day problems
in the United States and throughout
the world. They will be preserved
in permanent form between covers.
In these dreadful and anxious
days when all the world is at unrest
and look which way you will the
road seems darkened by shadows
which pretend dangers of many
kinds, it isl says the one who COM
manded the ship of state during the
world war, only common prudence
that we should look about us and at
tempt to assess the causes of distress
and the most likely means of remov
ing them.'
Then avoiding the partisan as he
analyzes the existing state of Ameri-
can civilization, the writer goes briefly
to the root of the matter by making
essentially what is religious appeal
for a better understanding between
the haves' and the have nots
Real ground for the universal un-
rest" he asserts, " lies deep at the
sources of the spiritual life of our
time, and leads to revolution
The cause of the Russian revOlu-
ton, which he calls the outstanding
event of it's kind in our age, was, in
his view, systematic denial to the
great body. of Russians of the rights
and privileges which all normal men
desire and must have if they are to
be contented and within reach of hap
piness."
"What has this to do with Ameri-
ca? 1t was against capitalism" he
declares, that the Russian leaders
directed their attack and is is against
capitalism under one name or an
other that the discontented classes
everywhere draw their Indictment"
Everywhere, he says, there are
thoughtful men who believe that cap
italism is indispensable to civilization,
but he goes on to ask :" is the cap
italistic system unimpeachable?"
els it not true?" the inquiry con-
tinues, "that capitalists have often
seemed to regard the men whom they
used as mere instruments of profit |
whose physical and mental powers
it was legitimate to exploit? Ought |
we not TO seek a Way TO ISlION0 SlCn
offenses and make life itself clean I
for those who will share honorably
and cleanly in it?
"The world has been made safe for
democracy There need now be no
fear that any such mad design as that
by the insolent and 1gnor-
ant Hohenzollerns and their coun-
sellors may prevail against it. But
democracy has not yet made the
world safe against irrational people.
That supreme task which nothing less
than the salvation of civilization, now
faces democracy, insistent imperative.
There is no escaping it, unless every
thing we have built up is presently to
fall in ruin about us and the United
States, as the greatest of democrac1es,
must undertake that.
"The road that leads away from
revolution is clearly marked, for it.
Is defined by the nature of men and
Of organized society. 1t, therefore, be-
hooves US to study very carefully and
very candidly the exact nature of the
task and the means of it's accomp-
lishment The sum of the whole
matter is this, that out Of civilization
cannot survive materially unless it be
spiritually. Here is the
final challenge to our churches, to
our political organizations and to our
,apitalists-to every one who fears
God or loves his country