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 With the Complimeats of 
 GEORGE FAMES BARSTOW 
 
 Shall Democracy Endure 
 
 By 
 
 GEORGE EAMES BARSTOW 
 
 Barstow, Texas 
 
 U. S, A. 
 
 "Where Washington hatli left 
 
 "His awful memory 
 
 "A htrht for after times!" 
 
 — Southey. 
 
 ''Babylon, 
 Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, 
 Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sig-h 
 That would lament her. ' ' 
 
 — Wordsworth, 
 
333 
 
 By tranalctr 
 !Ebe mate House. 
 
Shall Democracy Endure 
 
 By 
 
 GEORGE EAMES BARSTOW 
 
 Member The National Institute of Social Sciences 
 New York 
 
 Fellow The Royal Society of Arts 
 London 
 
 The fundamental issue of the great world war has been and is 
 Autocracy anent Democracy. That there has been for so long 
 years past great strife in international commerce is well under- 
 stood by ail careful observers and students of international af- 
 fairs, many of whom attribute the present awful world chaps 
 and upheaval to its clashing. • -, , 
 
 While all the great powers have been unquestionably aggres- 
 sive in their forgein commerce, the underlying motive has been 
 with the exception of Germany, the furtherance of commercial 
 profit and its concomitant advantages accruing to the people 
 of these nations in broad economic and social uplift. They had 
 obtained their "Place in the Sun" and were content! Germany 
 had also acquired her place within the same sphere; but, was 
 avaraciously discontent Germany was not only egregiously 
 different from the other great powers in this respect; but coup- 
 
led therewith was in every and most insidious ways fastening her 
 political tentacles upon every part of the world, her Emperor 
 and autocartic attendants seeking nothing short of a German 
 Empire of the world. The Kaiser's c^v as to the "Freedom of 
 the Seas" has been but a subterfuge to blind the minds of the 
 unknowing! The fact remains, that Germany has thru all these 
 years enjoyed the utmost "Freedom of the Seas. Her ships 
 could enter and have found free ports in every corner of the 
 world. Her commerce and her great colonies of citizens den- 
 ized on the soil of all the nations have lived and prospered ev- 
 erywhere und3r the most favored clause of nations. Her sin- 
 cerity of couduct has not been questioned, or under espionage; 
 notwithstanding during all this time she has had a great army 
 of spies in ail quarters of the earth. At the same time Ger- 
 many has not been reciprocal in conduct toward the commerce 
 of the other powers within her colonies! If we are to judge of 
 the world's broadest political freedom and evolution of nation- 
 ality by contrast, the nations would and do cry out for the 
 'jFreedom of the Seas" as now obtains and which finds its sol- 
 ution and permanence in the great and living and essential 
 principal that naval power must be exercised as a bond pro- 
 motive of pe ice and not conquest. For the past hundred 
 years the greatest naval power in the world has been g )verned 
 by this principle and its virtue is ingrained in its statecraft. 
 The further we investigate and the more critical we may be in 
 •mi-^ analysis of the underlying cause of the world war, the more 
 'convinced we shall become that the same is not found in world 
 commerce. That was with Germany simplv a means to an end! 
 To be sure, if Germany enjoyed the "Freedom of of Seas" 
 which met the view point of her autocratic rulers, she would 
 be content, for her influence would only cease when she was 
 all controlling. She would have excercised that power for con- 
 quest and not as a bond of peace. Her merchants and man- 
 ufacturers would enjoy boundless profit^ for themselves; and 
 the increment of their fortune provide more largess for des- 
 potic sway. 
 
Germany represents a nation wherein seventy thousand 
 people— autocrats— absolutely control seventy millions of people 
 — their servants! The Emporer assumes to rule by Divine 
 appointment and his word is final in all state affairs. He is a 
 fetich among his people! He controls almost the entire press 
 of the nation and thereby creates such public opinion as may 
 suit his caprice. The great universities and schools lie under 
 his power by and thru which a propaganda has been taught by 
 his adroit and able lieutenants, than which none could scarcely 
 have been more monstrous, and looking toward the emascula- 
 tion of other peoples and nations only so that his avarice and 
 world ambitions might be satisfied. He would have all the 
 world possessed of German Kultur, even though he must attain 
 
 that end by force. The consummation and epitome of egoism! 
 "For having sreed of life 
 "Forget to live. " 
 
 Can we marvel that world thought and ethical purpose was 
 anent Germany? That the world conviction was and is that 
 the German Government is striking at the very vitals of 
 democracy? That the question of the liberties of the peoples 
 and nations was hangmg in the balance? There is no doubt 
 that all the British colonies and dependencies were before the 
 war as they all are more than ever now, sincerely devoted to 
 the motherland! But, is that devotion the only cause of their 
 marvelous sacrifice in blood and treasure in the war? We find 
 the full solution .in the fact that they foresaw that a gigantic 
 blow was being struck at the very fundamental principles of 
 democratic government as practiced under British sway? The 
 British Colonies from Australia to India and from India to 
 Africa and from Africa to Canada and thence to the islands of 
 the seas foresaw, that as Byron tells us in Childe Harold, 
 
 "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 
 "W^hen falls the Colisenm, Rome shall fall; 
 "And when Rome falls, -^ the World." 
 
 Listen to the words of loyalty as uttered by Sir Satyendra 
 Sinha, president of the India National Congres, at Bombay in 
 
December 1915: 
 
 "The question which, above all others, is engrossing our 
 minds at the present moment is the War, and the supreme feel- 
 ing which arises in our minds is one of deep admiration for the 
 selfimposed burden which England's bearing in the struggle 
 for liberty and freedom, and a feeling of profound pride that 
 India has not fallen behind other portions of the British Empire 
 but has stood shoulder to shoulder with them by the side of the 
 Imperial Mother in the hour of her sorest trial. In the great 
 galaxv of heroes, in the imperishable Roll of Honour, there are 
 now. and there will never cease to be, beloved Indian names 
 testifying to the fact that our people would rather die unsullied 
 than outlive the disgrace of surrender to a bastard civilization. 
 
 The War has given India an opportunity, as nothing 
 
 else could have done, of demonstrating the courage, bravery 
 and tenacity of her troops, even when pitted against the best 
 organized armies of the world, and also the capacity of her sons 
 of all classes, creeeds and nationalities to rise as one people un- 
 der the stimulus of an overpowering emotion. That the wave 
 of loyalty which has swept over India has touched the hearts of 
 all classes have been ungrudgingly admitted even by unfriendly 
 
 critics India has risen to the occasion, and her 
 
 princes and peoples have vied with each other in rallying round 
 the imperial standard at a time when the enimes of the Empire 
 counted on disaffection and internal troubles. The spectacle 
 affords a striking proof as much of the wisdom of these states- 
 men who have in recent years guided the destiny of the British 
 Empire in India as of the fitness of the Indian people to grasp 
 the dignity and the responsibilities of citizenship of a world- 
 wide Empire" 
 
 New Zealand's and Australia's people were fully alive to 
 to the situation as discovered by the words of Hon. Thomas 
 McKenzie, Prime Minister of New Zealand: 
 
 * I doubt if any event chronicled in history has so fired the 
 imagination and kindled the anger of a people, and indeed, of 
 the world, as Germany, s infamous treatment of Belgium. But 
 
this 1 do know, it fired the heart of New Zealand, and when it 
 was decided to send an Expeditionary Force to the Front to aid 
 Great Britian and her AUies, there was an almost turbulent desire 
 on the part our youth and manhood to enlist. Long accustomed 
 though they were to the arts of production and quite unaccust- 
 omed to those of destruction, they seemed to realize instinctive- 
 ly that something more than the safety, security and restora- 
 tion of Belginm was at stake-" 
 
 Hear again the recent testimony of the Sultan of Egypt as 
 to British rule: 
 
 **I have great hopes for Egypt. Without hope no man's 
 life would be worth living. So I am ever hopeful and I believe 
 that under the protection of England, the greatest of liberal 
 powers, the future of Egyp' is assured. Had it not been for 
 my faith in the British Government and my belief that there 
 would be a gradual increase, in the rights granted us in the 
 matter of self-rnle I should have never undertaken the task. 
 From a personal standpoint I had nothing to gain." 
 
 The fundamental significance of this great, and horriole 
 world war is found in a dynamic battle of ideas. The German 
 people, at large, have not yet found themselves. But, the Ger- 
 man autocratic rulers intend that the world shall be ruled by 
 their Kultur, In peace if may be; if not, then by force. 
 Hence **her enemies," which have been self-created, arise 
 from all parts of the world in all their manhood to arrest and 
 overthrow her craven purposes and to reestablish a political 
 and ethical norm that will usher in the living ideals of demo- 
 cracy. Herein lies the cause of countless fields being watered 
 by the blood of millions of men thru sacrifice; of great num- 
 bers of towns and cities with all their temples and monuments 
 of art and learnirg laid waste; of multitudes of innocent women 
 and children tortured and outraged. 
 
 Is the object worth the cost? Is the evolution of world 
 democracy to be stopped? Is the egotistical and insatiable 
 appetite for power of a few men to be satisfied? A mighty 
 chorus of voices from all the peoples, nations and tribes of the 
 
world arise and reply in the negative. 
 
 And what of the aftermath? "Watchmen tell us of the 
 night?" Already we have seen the first glimmers of da^vn. 
 The prophets and seers of our time inform us that there will 
 be a new day and that the sunlight of democracy will shine 
 with greater resplendency than ever before. Why? Because 
 founded upon justice and not upon error. Error is defined as 
 transgression; so that as in the case of our inquiry there has 
 been transgression upon the human rights and liberties of 
 some nations and the world cries out in protest. From time to 
 time in all the past errors have invaded the governments of 
 both church and state, and they have been overthrown. Such 
 will undoubtedly be the result in the present world conflict, 
 and democracy will issue in triumph! 
 
 As the French Premier Briand recently said, "when peace 
 has been declared, we shall have won a victory over ourselves 
 as we shall have won it over tr.e Germans. No more divisions 
 or local tyrannies, no more hatred of church steeples. There 
 will be only one France." 
 
 And, there will be but one Germany! But, a Germany 
 ruled by its people on broad lines ot democracy and not having 
 their liberties smothered by autocratic rule. 
 
 The hope of the world lies in Democracy— Liberty under 
 Law and its marvelous army of adherents have reason to be- 
 lieve that out of 11 of the darkness and horrors of the present 
 there will issue Triumphant Democracy. 
 
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