The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919. ANGLO-SAXON REUNION

Taihape Daily Times, 10 March 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919. ANGLO-SAXON REUNION

(With trmch is incorporated The Taihape Post and Watnjntlno News').

The United States has discovered that as a nation it cannot remain isolated from all other peoples of the world; it has been made clear to its people that it is possible, and not altogether improbable, that a very large area of the earth, with its mul-ti-millions of people, may become opposed to its interests and may even threaten its independence and existence, and consequently, that it can no longer safely refrain from insisting upon having a voice in determining a basis for peace, and in the establishment of that peace that can least disturb the progress of the whole world in the future. Spain, in Cuba, became a disturbing .element on the eastern coast of America, while Japan was looming up threateningly in the Pacific, and Spain had to go, regardless of what the details of the casus belli may have been. Then Prussian military thirst for power would have brought the whole earth under a military system of government and America, from /experience in Africa, decided that a stand-off policy in connection with the war would be as bad for Americans us for all other peoples, and millions of American soldiers and millions of American money were promptly despatched to Europe to augment the the Allied armies and the Allied money chests. Whether it could be attributed to the democratic spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers who were landed in America from the historic 'Mayflower, and who have established the greatest democratic institution on earth, America has ever since re-

mained democratic in al! its ordinances and institutions. Weary of British exactions and undue interference America threw off the yoke of oppression laid on by George 111. of England, and became a great and independent Republic, a strong lead for the dcmocratisation of the world, quickly throwing into disadvantageous relief most States having monarchic institutions. Prom the date of inde-

pendence there set in a strong current of public opinion against that wretchedly inhuman business the slave-trade. The Northern States of the Union voluntarily discouragod and abandoned slave-keeping, and finally it became an unlawful business, and it was by force wiped right off the American slate. Its suffrage remained the most liberal and democratic of all the countries, ana Its example has demonstrated that- the greatest, happiest and richest nation on earth has needed no aristocracy or privileged governing class to place it right in the front ranks of civilisation. The principle in America is

that all men are equal before and under the law, and that to permit the wedge of privilege would endanger the whole democratic structure,! but the desire of the American people to keep aloof from the quarrels and squabbles in countries where class legislation has set up systems of unnatural privilege, has had to be modi tied by the great world-war precipitated by Prusian lust. American soldiers have done their duty in ending the war, and the American J people, represented by President Wilson, are continuing the corollary duty of evolving and instituting a satisfactory basis of peace, as well as the inauguration of„a League of Nations, carrying the governing of nations to its legitimate aims and ends, which are primarily the banishment of all wars, the setting up of a bond of international brotherhood, a dcmocratisation of the world. Apart from what America is doing' in France, the American people hare

their peaceful systems, of propaganda which do not clash with governing institutions in Liny English speaking country* We, in Taihape, are nt present receiving a visit from a body of Americans who are engaged in one of those missions of pence, brotherhood and equality. Americans have met English, Australians, and New Zealanders on the battlefield and in barracks, and Wave discovered the true nature of their relationship, and now the American people in Taihapc are seeking to cultivate that friendship that should obtain (amongst all people of common origin, and with the same blood running in their veins. The Chautauqua is one Ot the growths from the people to inculcate a better knowledge of American democratic ideals amongst all other branches of the Angio-Saxlon race; an effort to inculcate an everlasting bond of blood relationship that shall have a controlling influence in casting war down into the black pit of oblivion. What a contrast between Tie propaganda of American Chautauqua and the propaganda of Prussian militarism, or the propaganda yvf Bolshevism. American democracy invites the world by suasion and example into a peaceful bond of brotherhood, land what sane person could regard Prussianism or Bolshevism with their blood-curdling human destruction as a compeer; one is a mission of peace, the other of lust for human destruction, of which we have in Russia and Germany ample proof. The democratization of all peoples is near at hand, anarchic sabotage and murder could only delay the consummation. A social land industrial change is imminent, it must come, but there is nothing to prevent, it being a pacific change. The masses would be the greatest sufferers by resort to anarchic methods. If every patriot will cast his or her vote at the forthcoming general election for the masses and not for the privileged classes, democracy will then have achieved the means by which a real and not a spurious equality before and under the law can be made possible for all.