LIBERTY.
" A voluntary surrender of the outer boundaries of liberty is not an unreasonable price to pay for real freedom, whether that freedom lies in the use of power, trade, liquor, or words. In fact, one might go so far as to predict that, i£ demoeraoy fails, it probably will he for lack of self-control more than any other thing. If democyacy ip worth the price our ancestors paid for it, is it not worth some sacrifice on our part of the outer fringes of our Uberties? "Nations are all gelfish; it is just a question of degree. If the world is to progress, must there not be a new social conscienee among natiops as among individuals? Time was when aristocracy of birth was all-important. Yesterday, aristocracy of wealth was the governing factor. Is it too much to hope that we may work our way through to an aristocracy of charaeter, character among nationg as well as among individuals? Ib it not essential as a first step toward peace that we should be able to count upon signed agreements and treaties? " They may be modified or cancelled by mutuaj agreement, but in this new era with an expanding vision of social requirements the world can no lofiger permit solemn contracts to be destroyed as so much worthless paper. The weak must inevitablyJHe^^p|j^^e..strong
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 48, 12 March 1937, Page 4
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