The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
The Shadow Of An Assertive Democracy

OUR TYPE OF government with all it's attendant faults,
sberfuge emagogc aposteses and otherwise departures
from the real meaning and spirit of the Preamble is
sponsbe for what peace and whatever remains Of free
thought and righteous ideals existing in the world today
We just coming into the funess Of what gained
in struggles Of the first World War-srange it
it took second such to bring to the reaiza
ton Of what really accomplished Woodrow Wilson, after
his broken frame has been sleeping for generation is just
beginning to loom the great patriot who
tie of civilization to his generation to lay down to the Old
World the prophesy OF what it enduring and to
the New World of the underlying pers attendant when there
is no spirit of national unity.
Impatient have complained all through the ages OF
the fault If system it's failure rid of it's
vices the opportunity afforded for the designer the dea
and enemies to free participation in every function
of government by all the people, regardless to creed
previous condition of servitude.
We have late to realize that democracy progress
ing: that it could not achieve it's obectives few
centuries.
There many people who profess the faith of democ-
racy who in fact do not want it, This class has never rel
lshed the broad principles of government meant for and
by all the people
These principles while not practiced in the fullest
of the word of sufficient proportion to push great
itself at the Council Mirrors where the faulty Treaty of
Versailles was put in operation.
Our government went record opposing the methods
by which coercion enforced it's will From here sOwed
the seed of another World War which has to flourish
ing flower after these twenty-five years.
Democracy, at least it's intent, has again hurled the
lamp Of liberty the dark waters where have
that broad challenge to dctaors and questionable
ents and if the world is to be saved it is plain that the
panacea founded by Washington and rededcaed and
saved by Lincoln and hurled forward by Theodore Roosevelt
From the present struggle democracy will be helped in
its striving for its real obectives. will be encouraged
and enforced by it's magnificent power made evident in its
missions of the past and will say that such system at
tempt OF system is worth nqrng into and saving 1t will
look about here at home and sweep the enemies of good gov
ernment from before its doors and fly the flying
coors of free and with and by the
consent alone IF the governed
Democracy like the gospel is going assert itself Many
of the nations fighting today for what know dernoc
racy do not in reality want it. They do not understand it,
There those country who do not want and
do not understand it. But is coming 1t must in it's
fulmess its broad preambes must be here and
jected
God give land of free men, brave men, men that
stand tall against the storm,
Men unafraid of their brother, be he black Or white
regardless of his form,-
And it shall flourish like the cedars of Lebanon in its
pompous spread
And there shall never be stone hurledeven when the
humbest of its charge reaches his hand for his
h' bread
From the Atlanta (Ga) Daily World