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Show I A SEDATIVE NEEDED. Political heads sit lightly these days, like crowns In the time Of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror. Thr foreign news of the day is full of falling seep-gin seep-gin (Jreece eight m liysiers of a mon-mchlal mon-mchlal cabinet face the firing squad vith a jaunty air victims ot a fickle populace when a republic is proclaimed. pro-claimed. In gay Italy the Faseiati. be-! decked in black caps, symbolizing I o - J ;lty to kings, in a bloodless nvolu-i ion. overthrow the red dictatorship: which had recently been set up by te ballots of the people. In Ireland, where for centuries the yoke of English oppression galled the fighting Celts, an irreconcilable Republican Re-publican who only a short time ago; I was one of the heroes in the intrepid ii niggle for the liberation of blfl jfle, is sentenced and short to death by the Free State, composed of fellow Irishmen, for the offense of having arms in his possession, and a Mac-;Swiney Mac-;Swiney is allowed to starve until life hangs by a thread in a hunger si . ik -against the tyranny of home rule in Erin. In vanquished Germany, wh re ;i i public is floundering among the ashes of the once proud Kalserthum, a new colossus 1b heralded io redeem the Yaterland from chaos with each new issue of fiat marks from (he public presses, and the collapse of the whole structure of government la hourly Imminent. In France premiers api" in kaleidoscopic confusion, and In staid England Lloyd George, the versatile, ver-satile, who outclassed all the other i prime ministers of the peace confer ence, is unhorsed and a ministry of mediocre tories is placed in the saddle. sad-dle. Even in our own country, with its j wonderful system of constitutional i checks, a political turn-over of great significance has occurred in the short span of two years. In the broad aspect it is all evi- j dence of a hectic state of mind in the masses of peoples everywhere. Ir la the natural aftermath of the hyatei i of war. The world needs a bromide |