Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-03-25
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1898
THE THING HAS ROOTS


~ MT coar ten wears ago. if clear five
aoo If It was not clear year should be cesr now %
2h Century rye s@e not neW has been going
Iono time: recent events merely dramatlzed IL. ,
rJ % 4 rgee between two idea Of democracy
on one the idea of on the on G INV %
no one people but all all peoples One
that dgnss les s wan o @ The other philosophy
PRESSES or regiments the individual by setting single lead
fP called st sa Beyond the that
terize it, meanings Of this struggle run deep Ine Is no fI
to %D1 watch ate it with Indifference. .,,o -
Italv Beno Mussoni summed the issue IN words tn
at once challenge prediction Writing in the Encyclopedia
# the 18th century the century of the individual it
9e Sa e the Century the state If may that each
century has doctrine then thousand Indications pont "
Fascism the doctrine Of the pgsene e times since the
tragedy Mussolnis words must seem especial
Communism short idea of the authoritarian
a nhsbabe areas of the earth per cent of the earhs
population are shadow of dictatorship in form
an te eaVeg h1 mas bor time since the World War
tides hsoy and the one P9o % r this Way and
must eventually away either OF tne
On the surface it difficult to understand how and why
whole yielded their Liberties to the dictates Of few
the authoritarian filled democratic peoples with horror
and Stolen the territories of peaceful nations has destroyed
achieve broken treaties has violated the rights
books ed scholars taken control of the press and the
radio forced schools into line All this h has done to make the
And has done than that 1t has set up its own
gon conform bascay tawd cynical and regious
has presented minores it has proclaimed acia
stood world notably Germany and declared that
truth only OF secondary importance that tn p4sa Oh II
what he Authoritarian State orders It has stood before
mated experience of centuries To the denocacies
shouted that democracy dead that individual liberty is Bo
right to control its subjects will And for dissent
concentration camps and perfected he blood puge All in all
Judging by outward symbols and the color OF its internal
s%sg for freedom and the sefe freedom
But it of little value @ a simply s SpRf ac anf ta has
grown fast and apparently still growing history E is clear 3 0 on
place despotsms and as VICIOUS M
them awduss Caesars the dspo who riding the present
tide spreading their nGsnGe @ay eeyyona be ened to the
od Of disease In the world the spread has become
almost M someng saS m a @ be
plague The must be found the grown IS 70 oe u
The cause of dictatorship ped in few words
and extent at least they can be approacned WIN
The to be remembered is that most OF aio %
now rule Indeed today there no important sign ndc
ting that they without popular cea support not aogher Is
to understand those countries controlled by the
Tn addition to that before democrae there had been long
government Accordingly, the sudoeh
s of depotc leaders did not great deal to peoples VINO
had not been long srue Instead because t
failed to solve pressing problems oe
unrest unappness widespread they embraced
relationships did hesitate to barter their liberties 1or eco
nomic security ...o+
The pity of all that the security thus obtained cannot
LAST must the policies followed by most dlc-
tatorshps are policies that lead disaster
social disaster political disaster Aaments programs cose
case in point Germanys feverh building for example
is diverng wealth into nonproductve fields and
ened Germans certainly the eventual price OF
war or crushing taxation both Nevertheless the advance OF
the cannot stopped by pointing out those
who live under that reckoning lies ahead No sermon