The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
q DICTATORS END
o WIN OR LOSE
q THEY ARE OUT
. LAST MAD MOVE

VIII, lose, Cle VI WIdllSlc, eliCy oiS
on the way out.
Dictatorships are built upon bor-
rowed capital, series of promisscry
notes.
When peoples get into difficulties
which their form of government does
not seem able to solve, inquiry, re-
sentiment, doubt arises.
Then comes some Strong, blatant
individual who says: "Let me do it. [
can do it better than your present gov
ernment if you will trust me with the
necessary power" And, in their ex-
tremity, they give him that power.
And it does not work out. So he
uses the power already granted to
seize more power, to repress criticism,
to make more promises. And he fails
again. And seizes more power, and
becomes more repressive and make
more promises.
Until he has seized all the power
there is and broken all the promises
that can be made.
X X X
Then comes the final desperate ges-
ture, a foreign war. Breast beating.
eve fight against the aggressors. We
must defend the sacred soil of our
fathers" Every motion is drugged and
doped into a cocaine jag of hysterical
patriotism"
Each, under fear of torture and
death, yells louder than his neighbors.
Casualty lists come in and the
enemy becomes "the one who has
slain my SON." Then, finally, the struc-
ture begins to crack. Victory has not
come but bereavement, suffering, de-
spair have: Hunger gnaws. Cold chllls
the bones. Awakening sanity looks
into the grisly prospects ahead. vi
more suffering, more crosses over.
mutilated bodies of loved ones, down
to the bitter end of national defeat
and individual ruin.
And the "morale of the people
breaks" And the war is over and the
dictator has no more promises to
make. He has been foreclosed on the
last tragic scrap of "blue sky prom
issory note. So, he is gone.
ktk X
And the people patch up the ruins,
care for the sorry human wreckage
and stagger undersa burden of back
breaking debts and ,indemnities. -
Napoleon went that road. Hisl
cessories and his enemies aAlSssHN
that same road. All except the'
mocracies of that time.
The Tears went that way in tA
World War. Y
The Kaiser furnished the outstand-
ing example and warning of them all.
Mussolini took the first steps in his
Ethiopian foray. And again in Spain.
And the crumblings of his plaster
board empire has already begun.
Japan cast it's bloody dice in the as
sault on China.
And now the Fuehrer makes the last
mad move.
The last ace up his sleeve is on the
board.
AS we come to turning point of
history.
X X X
If the war is longdrawn out, it's dur
alton will be determined by the en-
durance of his deluded victims.
The last time, the break came when
the Kaiser sent children into the front
lines.
By every motive of humanity, in the
light of the penalties all belligerents
or "neutrals" must suffer, by the perils
which face all orderly government in
the future, it is to be hoped that the
German people will clear their prop
aganda-drugged heads and stop short
of the time when every household is
in mourning and every cupboard is
bare.
There will be enough ruins to patch
up at the best.
Because the democracies have clear
ly shown a realization that the test
has come, that freedom cannot exist,
right across an artificial boundry line,
from unrestrained and power-mad
despotism, by whatever name it is
called. Whatever is done this time,
that is the final issue and permanent
peace of the world hangs on a slen-
der thread until it is decided.
The German people may rescue
themselves from the bloody pit into
which they are sliding. Or they may
wait too long.
X X X
But this is the last desperate ges-
ture of failing absolutist govern
ment. Traditionally, through the CEN
turies, fading power, growing unrest
and disillusionment. A foreign war.
Defeat or revolt of the disllusioned
people. A pitifully belated awakening
to sanity. And then no more such
demonstrations Of national dementia
until a new generation is ready for
the march and the slaughter.
Some generation will learn this
lesson.
Let's hope it is this one, and let's
hope we can stay out.
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