Show 00 SOME DAY MUSSOLINi WILL FEEL THE BLOWIn BLOWIn BLOW BLOWIn In an article on Mussolini the Independent Oil and Financial Re Reporter porter says Benito Mussolini Is a naIve bully at that He defines fascism fascism In terms ot of government absolutIsm absolutism ism lam and then calls caUs it a s new type of state slate He reads reads the riot acton act acton acton on democracy and then pretends to find a parallel between the man theone-man one man rule ot of Italy and the popular gov government of ot the United States He lie boasts like a zollern zollern demanding a place In the sun and Ahen then assures his InterVIewer Interviewer that Our bur Imperial imperial- imperialIsm Imperialism ism lam presents presents no DO threat to the orld peace peace Mussolini pro pro- pronounces pronounces pronounces the decay ot of democracy forgetful that in the last analysis all governments whether they be beof beof of tyrants or of ot muddling parlia parlia- parliaments parliaments ments rest unon ui unon on the consent or of orthe the governed Bayonets Baronets may cow the people for lor a time the hero worship which enthrones such bullies as Napoleon and Musso russo- 1 Mussolini lint lini may enthrall them Ignorance of heir their own power which would permit a Louis the Fourteenth to boast I 1 m am the state may ren ren- render render render der them Impotent but the prin prin- principle principle principle ciple endures that governments derive their just powers from the consent of at the governed And soon 0 o late the governed realize the fact and exercise their power It Ir may be gradually as In the growth ot of English d democracy or orI I suddenly and nd violently as lIS inthe In Inthe the French revolution The Ideal of ot the political phi phI- philosopher philosopher Is 1 a a- a society In whIch the Individual units are so able fo adjust themselves to each other that no government whatever Is But necessary But that state of so- so society society so society has never been achieved Man seems by nature to be he a IL pred pred- predatory predatory predatory atory animal and so for his own good he be has been willing to sub sub- submit submit mit himself to the expensive nui nul nuisance sance lance of o govel government IDent for the sake of protecting what hat our t Declara Declaration tion of Independence calls his In Inalienable alienable right to life liberty and the he pursuit of happiness Para Para- Paradoxically Paradoxically d od callY he gives give up his bis liberty In order to Insure preserving it It But not the government ol of Mussolini Fascism he says sas sa's reo re re places Individual sovereignty by state Hate tate sovereignty the nation for lor forthe the individual That I It is the state Is a supernatural omnipotent om cm nascent being like God which demands de demands mands everything ever of the Individual pal ual and tolerates the existence of the latter for Its own pleasure It may grant him some measure of t liberty but only as a concession not as a right He lie owes own It every every- everything everything thing It owes him Im nothing Government b built up that con con- conception conception conception for tor all the temporary might which It may acquire is as Insecure as the house built upon the sands in the parable of oi Jesus Soon or late the reigning reigning Musso Musso- Musso lint or his successor must taIL fall Some day workmen will strike whether he wishes them to orno or orno orno no the suppressed editors will defy him the citizenry will hold elections jn in n spite ot of him Internal disorders may mar upset him or it may require a R world orld cataclysm such Buch BuchI Buchas I as ns it lt took t to unhorse e tb the Ibe kaiser but the event will come as surely as It came camo to the lern tern lern family f Fascism Is a phenomenon I ot of the power r of at organization over disorganization but the consent ot of the governed Is a IL law of na- na nature na nature ture as cn as that which holds the planets In their courses |