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Show DAY OF REVOLUTIONS PAST Education Must Take the Place of the Antiquated Methods of Making 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 Franco" and "Under the Red Robe." According to Mr. Wey-man's Wey-man's view no rebellion by the people peo-ple can ever hope to be successful In the larger nations now. "Against the muskets and cannon of nA 1tto nnlTnt V. n n A o n n H Tl 1 n V rt-jll I f t U1U UajA lldEV '..1 HUH ...... weapons could prevail if fury lent w strength 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 high-explosive shell can wreck half a village, when everything that has to do. with these weapons, with the munitions that feed them, and the airplanes 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, cltlea famed In the past for their turbulence, are hurried into slavery well-nigh unresisting. un-resisting. "For they know resistance to ba 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." |