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Show so much confidence in the pcoplo of I other countries to hold their own if the gathering storm breaks upon the world. The coming winter will bring . with it the supreme teat of patriotism i in all civilized lands. What will the ! harvest be? WHAT OF THE FUTURE? While we havo the necessary faith to believe that right, truth and justice jus-tice tvill finally prevail all over the world, we must confess that the prospects pros-pects for the people of this day and generation are not particularly bright or alluring. The greatest of all wars ir. a been fucght and tc.:i. As a result almost all of the leading nations are in a stale of physical exhaustion. This ' includes the victors as well as the van quished, tlie United States and Japan 'peine; the only exceptions. One would -i.-it-.'.rrliy sui.pose that th? people of the countries which suffered the great-losses great-losses would close un their shattered shat-tered ranks a-.d begin the work of reconstruction re-construction with srim determination to restore their fallen fortunes. Xo such effort is Ix-ing made in England, which before the war was the greatest single manufacturing nation and the one which held the pursestrings of the world. Since the signing of tlie armiutice the bibor unious have takon the country by the throat and the situation ut the present time is desperate indeed. The s'rike of tho railway workers, 600.000 strong, has paralyzed commerce and tho poor people of the great cities are threatened with starvation. Fremier Lloyd (Teorgo charges that the strike is not born of a desire to obtain more I w-ages or better conditions, but that "it j has teen, engineered for some time by ! a small but active body of men who ; have wrought tirelessly and insidiously 1 to exploit the labor organizations of the country for subversive ends." We do not believe the government of Great F-ritain can be subverted by the employment em-ployment of any such means, but there is no telling to what extent tho soviet ilea has permeated the labor world. Hero in the United States we have followers fol-lowers of Lenine and Trot.ky. Jost of these agitators are of foreign birth, but some of them are men of American origin who are lacking in both patriotism patriot-ism and intelligence. So it is more than probable that some of the Englishmen English-men have no love for their native land or respect for its laws and cherished institutions. Should the?e men prove numerous enough to overthrow the government and establish the Euiuian soviet Eys-'fi-i, the empire would, of course, be -recked and British commerce would bo destroyed forever. Eut -while the proc-of proc-of disintegration was in progress continental Europe, Asia and Africa "ould be engulfed and civilization dealt a blow from the effects of which it could not recover for centuries. Thu Tta'.i-ans would not stop at Fiume, but - ould' endeavor to take possession of the h'nterland as well. Greece would 'ake Thrace from tlie Bulgarians and make an effort to secure Constantinople. Constanti-nople. The Turks would f.Iaughter the remaining Armenians. Central Europe would be devastated while the long submerged sub-merged races endeavored to retain their rewl- gained liberty. Japan would be free to work its will in China. The Germans would overrun France and might easily become the strongest power in Europe. While all this wrs going on conditions condi-tions in the United States would become be-come worse and worae. Our foreign trade would be eut off; our great industrial in-dustrial plants would be operated on -hort time; wages would be low and hundreds of thousands of men and women wo-men -would be out of employment. We could still produee foodstuffs enough to 'ppply our needs, but there would be no profit in it for the farmers. Premier Lloyd George is right a to :ho purpose of the labor movement in iinol.-nd, the whole world i- faring a e-:1:-. The once powerful Ifus-ian empire em-pire has been I,-iid low ;tt the result of tho reaction ;i;'aiiisf, auloeraey and :.'"t"r enduring untold agonie-i for many weary inon'h.i the people, after having ieeu led astray at tlie Ic-iitming, have -o far been unable o rigy, tho ship of s'ale. '.' e doubt if the fingiish soldiers, sailors sail-ors and workingmcn can be llir ii:n-i-ed if they flop Jong enough to spec-ijl'i'e spec-ijl'i'e upon 11," incvilaoht result, .e-.er- :heie--n t!i'; eiir'--- , f tl.e r-re.-ent rike --,i;l ,e va.'eii'd v. illi rinieli i ri i-r":-' and gr tit. an--.-.ety. 'Ilk-re i. not o ri.ne'i appr' h'-n1 ioo ,'oi lo what ir,.-i.y ' i e n in tl." I'niled s t;,l i '.imubl Iho i ! - I r ,!: " eoti i i io;e any h u;e ii of lime, 111,- io . . be .-,:'t',-,-le,, of eolil ! .- tin a I temp! I'i e it ;,l,;r-.'i a. ; o- i. I 'o-m i,i i ri;:n' 1,1, -hiili 1. f :i n : fin - :.: r . I. a,,. :, il,-l r , p I'-,- - . r ,'. -. ,; lo pn! down ri - o Ii !', I, f; ,o r : -. 1 1, i q o , o o- j.ll t'-iro, lo e.one. ' , ol |