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Show DAY OF REVOLUTIONS PAST Education Must Take the Place of tho , Antiquated Methods of Making 1 Changes in Government. The machine gun and the high explosive ex-plosive shell have ended the days of successful revolutions, according to Stanley J. Weyman, the English author au-thor of "The House of the Wolf," "A Gentleman of France" and "Under the Red Kobe." According to Mr. Wey-man's Wey-man's view no rebellion by the people peo-ple can ever hope to be successful la the larger nations now. "Against the muskets and cannon of old days naked hands and makeshift weapons could prevail If fury lent Btrength and numbers were sufficient. But today, when half a dozen machine guns, handled by twice as many experts, ex-perts, can mow down hundreds In a minute ; when even a single hlgh-ex-ploslve shell can wreck half a village, when everything that has to do with these weapons, with the munitions that feed them, and the airpluncjs that guide them, is technical to a degree, of what avail are the scattered rifles and barricades of the people, the regiments regi-ments hastily levied and scantily armed? Of none. Before the muzzles of a few machine guns the tollers of Ghent and Liege and Antwerp, cities famed in the past for their turbulence, are hurried into slavery well-nigh unresisting. un-resisting. "For they know resistance to be hopeless. And so it is, and must be. As long as a mere handful of men trained in the use of these engines remains faithful, despotism may sit secure, be the people never so impatient. impa-tient. Only from outside, only by the use of equal weapons, only by other nations, can the yoke be broken and the people be freed." |