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GREAT BRITAIN.
This war which is now engaging
the attention of practically the en
tire cjviii'ed world to the exclu
<-ioii of a!! other matter? eroept as
they a't1 a •ce'ciories lhereto is re
markable for nothing more wonder
ful the n the power that Great
Britain is displaying after over
three Via’s if war, aid t lit attitude
of a'itniration or of hate manifest J
ed in many sections of 11: • world
to tha‘ extr. ordinary eonylomera
Uoi> known as the British Empire
N >r i an i’ he denied that as men
favo* or disfavor the entry of the
I'nif'd Rtat.es into this war, they
■ire nilimated more or less by tlieii
likes or dislike, their admiration
or their bate, of Great Britain.
Quite a large section of the iris.ii
population in America is unable to
■econrile itself to supporting a wai
which is manifestly to be carried on
in alliance with the detested Sas
senach. while 01 tie other land
die enthusiasm which tins war eli
cited in innumerable quarters was
provoked by the Anglomaniacs in
the nation's midst, and who saw
in the cause of Great Britain the
cau.e oi Freedom and Democracy
every where
There have always been anglo
pitches and anglomaniai s in tlrs
country and in every other country,
,mi there likely enough always will
lie in nations which lave come in
contact with the Bvii‘ d>, so th?r‘
will be those who believe that tin
word of an Englishmen it as good
as his bond, as there are those who
have passed into a proverh the cau
tion 'trust not a serpent's tooth,
nor an Anglo-Saxon’s word."
Nations are in a great measure
like individuals. Robert Browning
in a poetical dedication to tits with
of a volume of magnificent verse
that will be deathless as the tongue
itself, repeated the beautiful senti
ment thanking God that the mean
est of His creatures boasted two
sides: the one to face the world with,
and one to show a woman when
ho loved her. So nations also will
reveal those who trouble to under
stand and appreciate the people,
attributes of splendor, while to
those by no means friendly one
hard as adamant to face tiie world
with is exposed.
Assuredly that is true of Great
Britain, and assuredly also tke real
facts of that nation’s attlibutns
and characteristics will he found
no' in those tilings discovered by
the nations or the men who admire
11 to excess, nor in those things to
which men who hate and despise
Great Britain point the finger of
scorn and loathing.
Jt will be revealed indeed that
the truth is to lie found in the tael
applicable to other and o’dcr ot
younger nations alike, that tfere is
good in worst and bad in the best
of nations as of men.
Possibly indeed in no other ’na
tion are these antithetical utttibu.es
so clearly obvious as in Great Bri
tain, so that in observing facts as
to the dominance of Great Blitain
m India and Ireland, facts so tor
rihle. so cruel and so tyrannical
orn an ay easily forget that it was
in Great Britain that modern demo
cracy had its birth; that while the
rest of the world lay prone in the
agonies of serfdom, the British vert
•dragging magna ’hartas from te
luctav.t kings and embattled farm
ors withstood the Stuart tyrannies
against their fields and homes long
before.the New Englanders taught
the House of Hanover. The pecul
iar methods of British diplomacy
have become synonimous with de
ceit and earned for that nation
from the less unscrupulous French
the title of perfide Albion, yet thosi
very tilings are likely to make per
sons, concerning them, forget
that the deeds of during of British
captains on si a and on chore huvs
brought the torch of freedom into
lards plunged in the nethermost
;1arknes3 of savagery.
Those bold nervous deeds that
wrung fiom Ralph Waldo Emerson
no uncritical writer by any means,
reluctant admiration have caught
the fam y of friendly peoples to the
litter exclusion oi the historic villi
anies. and they are myriad, con
neeted with the name of England,
justifying in no small measure
those hitter denunciations of the
races experiencing them, and justi
fying too. the somewhat evil title
of the \ umpire of Europe.
In Ireland one reads the record
of Easter week, red in blood and
bitter with human suffering, wher.
brave and gallant and chivalrous
men were shot at sundown or da>
break to riv»t the chains of i
hostile government more securely
upon the nation, and then one turns
to the British denunciation oi G<-r
man frightfulness and wonders
what sort of national hypocrisy is
this!
We forget the tremendous success
of a nation in peril raising its own
army of four million volunteers in
almost twelve months. We are
amazed to discover the tact that
the success of such a voluntary en
listment is beyond question—and it
lias to be confessed that when mil
lions of all (lasses will volunteer
for any purpose, ready to sacrifice,
if so it lie that the cause needs it,
their lives in tact, that nation what
ever be the scarlet of its soul
purges itself in the national sacri
fice and stands white as the snow
of heroism itselt before the world.
It placed itself beyond the shafts
of ridicule and contempt.
This we say quite regardless of
the rights or tlie wrongs, just so
that men think they are acting
hightly.
And we say it beyond fear oi
question that no cruse which can
awake the deathless devotion of
men, right or wrong, can be a lost
cause, for it is that which drags
victory from defeat. Nor must \vi
make tlie mistake of believing that
bccauic conditions may have result
ed in a complete perversion of a na
tional soul and men flock mistaken
ly to uphold a caus° that was not
for them, they act thus unworthily.
The main tiling is that men's souls
should rise above their environment
and of their own volition and ns
they see it, lay down their lives to
lie saved and he Iree.
Again and again and again they
have repeated tike a parrot that
men will stand in need of the profit
incentive to carry on industrious
eftert under any economic system
the*- will prevail. We know of nr
eftort, no sacrifice, no devotion ol
energy calling for such deter muni
tion as the voluntary effort of the
3elf imposed enlistment. That vna'i
there and then devotes his life tc
the cause which he believes in.
One may think him wrong and fool
ish and imprudent and ignorant
But he is none the less giving ol
his body and soul that his ideal*
mry be perpetuated.
Indeed we might as well inak«
up our minds that until the work
ers themselves are ready to immo
late their lives for the cause of la
bor. and to the same extent if ne
cessity should arise, we will still b<
handling the husks and wasting til
kernel of human effort in the move
ment.
Always, considering Great Bri
tain, one must bear in mind the
antithetical attributes that are ii
evidence. John Mitchell aucestoi
of the present Mayor of New York
commenting upon the abolitioi
movement and its phenomenal sue
cess in Great Britain, said that i
appeared to lum. mindtul as lie was
of the horrid years in Ireland of j
'47 and '48, that it took a black I
skin to secure the sympathies of the I
British nation. Indeed usually in
Gnat Britain there has been quite
a large section devoting itself to
opposing policies of imperialist do
minance. from the agitators who
secured the effort to impeach War
re;: Hastings to the present day.
The fight between a Gladstone
and a D’lsraeli was entered for a
decade upon the rights of the Bai
kans, and the effort of the former
to drive the Turks out of Kurope.
When after the Berlin conference
Gladstone denounced the work of
D'lsraeli as leaving a legacy of woe
to the world. and D'lsraeli de
nounced Gladstone as inebriated
with the exuherar.ee of his own
verbosity the imperialists felt that
Beaconsfiekl was right, and yet tht
very war new i:i progress would
have been for ever prevented had
the more liberal imt less imperialist
designs of Gladstone, been those
that were sueeessful.
We believe however that Ibis v
is going to be for Great Britain one
that will remove its leadership
among the nations. The real victor
will in commerce, industry and
finance be the United States. Both
Germany and Great Britain hJo
undone themselves. And the only
nation that will rise from litis war
like a Phoenix from the ashes of
the past, with renewed life, with
revivified freedom, with new-born
splendors of democracy, is not
Great Britain, not Germany, not
France, not the United States—
but Russia. It has paid the price
but already the prize has been wan
WORTH WATCHING.
The result of the prosecution of
the Industrial Workers of the
World will be worth watching by
all organized labor. It will be
worth knowing for what this orga
nization is being prosecuted. The
organization is in existence so many
years that if it had been criminal
surely it would have already been
compelled to face the law. It has
achieved considerable notoriety in
strikes and lock outs long ago and
yet even the great interests with
which it contended made no effort,
did not apparently dream of calling
it a criminal organization.
For that reason all organized
iabor will want to know why they
are to be condemned. If Jt is be
cause they organize, make demands
of the profiteers call strikes—agi
i late, educate organize—why they
! ar° doing what every labor orga
i nization that is not moribund is do
ling. and if these acts are to be the
I foundation of prosecutions what
j one will escape?
Whether we aprove of the prin
; ciples. of the tactics, of ‘.he poli
cies of the industrial vvoraers ui
the World is quite immaterial.
What is material worth considera
tion is whether or not this orga
nisation is to be prosecuted and
condemned for doing what every
labor organization under the sun
does and will do.
The mere tact that tills organi
zation affect', for the most part
casual worker and unskilled labor
cuts no manner of figure in this
whatsoever. if it is unlawful for
the unskilled to organize for more
pay. to call strikes, to agitate ami
organize tor better conditions, it is
only a matter of time until that
principle can be invoked to brinp
all labor, skilled and unskilled, and
all organizations of labor to time
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