KING DEMOS
HOW WILL HE USE HIS PEACE. OPPORTUNITIES. "Democracy has won the -war," says Sir Sidney Low in the "Daily Mail." "On that point wo are all agreed. The conflict hosi been accepted as a struggle —a, final struggle—between the autocratic nnd the democratic principles. President Wilson gave official authority to this theory when ho declared that America went into the war to make the world safe for democracy. The old imperialisms are down and out. There is no real despotic monarchy left in the world. Government of tho people and by the people is—in form at least-established everywhere. "Now that King Demos has # come to his throne, what will he do with, his powers? With all their faults the aristocratic and middle-class oligarchies often produced great statesmen and leaders of men. Democracy will havo to find them too and to provide not merely a 'heavenbom' Prime Minister ov commander-in-chief now nnd again, but nlso a, continuous stream of competent and highminded public servants. Success on tho platform and in tho committee room is not always a proof of intellectual capacity and moral force. How is democracy to sift tho grain from the chaff and to ensure that it sliall be guided by the men of action rather than tho men of words? Perhaps that is the hardest problem 'of all, and the most serious thought should be bestowed upon it.".
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 7
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232KING DEMOS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 7
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