Show PEACE HYSTERIA we have heard a lot about war hysteria but the thing that is wrecking democracy at present is peace hysteria peace at any price this peace hysteria came into being at the close of the last world war and was born of the horrors and sufferings incident to that war in most nations it crystallized into collective action for the prevention of war and might have worked out very well had not the ri richest chest strongest and most influential nation balked on the undertaking and tried to divorce itself from the rest of the world and lock itself in its own closet there to remain until most of the other nations became disgusted with its cowardice and lack of civic responsibility and withdrew from the compact history teaches that when nations grow rich they grow soft pleasure loving and shirk responsibilities which impose any hardships upon them and then quickly they decline and are pushed aside by poorer but more ambitious peoples who are willing and ready to take chances in order to achieve their objectives england and france are suffering this decline and america has suddenly tL awakened wakened from its dream of security behind these nations which have been revealed as only smoke screens and dummy powers to find that we have left it to george all too long and that we may have to pay dearly for our weakness and stupidity later on in the meantime mean time politicians are still advocating the tying of the hands of government by the enactment of still further pacifistic legislation such as a law requiring a referendum vote by the people before war can be declared irrespective of the emergency of the situation big business has created a bugaboo of everything savoring of cooperative effort on the part of the common people which they have christened communism and frightened such unsophisticated organizations as the american legion into convulsions while the agents and emissaries of foreign aggressor nations sow their pernicious propaganda and foment civil strife for the purpose of rendering us helpless and another choice morsel for their tables where oh where are our american statesmen today where are the real watchmen on the towers of liberty the people have become so thoroughly enmeshed in a web of lies misrepresentation and deceit that they are beail dered and powerless to free themselves often the persons they look to as examples of wisdom and purity di are re the very ones who are herding them into the net but while these crafty self indulgent ones were enjoying their feast they failed to note the hand writing on the wall and their profligate reign is in in grave danger A world to be safe to live in must be adequately policed and we cant leave it all to the other fellow inertia and overindulgence over indulgence are sure signs of national decay |