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Show In entirely free United States of America. The day for monarchies and aria-torraclea aria-torraclea Is past: tha world Is rlpa for the world republic. Pan-America, as a cluster of democratic republics, united by common Ideals and Interests, la the prototype for the pear future for all the other continents. China la the nucleus for a group of Asiatic republics. repub-lics. Russia Is the nucleus for a group of European republics. Australia and New Zealand are tha nucleua for Oceania as a duster ef republics, and Africa will fall In line aa a group of African republics.' Thus wa get five great units. They all form tha world republic, with a world tribunal. world parliament, and a world executive execu-tive department. Then only will International In-ternational law be on a firm basis, when its laws are mads by the world parliament. Its difficulties straightened out by the world supreme court, and when there Is a supremo executive force to enforce Its decree. As It la. International law Is a farce. Then, also, tbe great problem of the free sea can be decided forever. The aeas are property of tha world republic, aot belonging be-longing to any atngle nation, empire or group of nations. Then warship ar merely policemen on the watsr, and very few ar needed. Then soldiers sro merely a kind of national polio force, and very few ar needed. The greatest fore Is public opinion. let us educate publio opinion towarda thte greatest of all human Ideaia. the world republic, and let as start aa Its nucleus the International fustic bureau. bu-reau. DR. A. B. ' THE WORLD REPUBLIC. Editor Ths Telegram: If Ruasla la counted as a republic, we can aay that today two-thirds of ths world Is republican. Tha republics of ancient Ureec and Roma were not democratic, but aristocratic republics. They soon . degenerated Into monarchies mon-archies again. Bwltserland is the oldest old-est democratic republic now existing. With the exception of Canada, the I whole American continent Is practically practi-cally a group of democratic republic France. Portugal. China. Russia are republics In ths modern sense, and no great rbsnge la needed to make Canada, Can-ada, Australia and New Zealand a group of English republics. The natural nat-ural thing for the human race la the world republic. Let ua make no mie-take. mie-take. The real iaaue today Is not democracy de-mocracy versua autocracy, but republic repub-lic against monarchy. And even If America fllhta today on the side of Rngutnd to cmeh German militarism, this does not mean that we fight for the Kngti.h monarchy or tha Englleo. sristocrary. but for that spirit of Kn-gland Kn-gland which gavs to ths world a system sys-tem of free governments ss we see it in the Kngllah colonies, and especially |