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THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 1918.
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DEMOCRACY.
IN THEORY AND PRACTICE."
We are äghting, says President Wilson, to make the world safe for democracy and the phrase has been echoed by scores of writers and speakers, and is currently accepted as a concin and adequate state ment of the fundamental war aim of the Allied Powers, But is its meaning suficiently clear Sir Owen Seaman, in socio verses which appeared in a recent number of " Punch," speaks with some bitterness of a world made safe for de mocrats to occupy," the democrats " being the future masters of the State," who loaf in shop and mine, When on their labour bangs the fate of England in the Sghting line." Whether Sir Owen Seaman's strictures on men who strike in war-time are justifed or not is a point that does not concern here. What i of interest is his incidental assumption
that "to make the world safe for demo-
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cracy means to produce a condition of things in which the working classes will bemasters.of the State which they are not its masters at present If that assumption is correct-if the triumph of democracy which this war is to bring about means simply "the more complete and general assumption of poli- tical power by one social class, and that a class not necessarily superior to any other in its breadth of outlook or, con ception of civic duty,--then, indeed, the good citizen (whether or not. ho be, like Sir Owen Seaman's hero, ** of ancient birth") may well be forgiven if he tends to chafe a little when his weary eye pictures the goal."
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The organic materials form the chief including the augars and staretes, are part of our food The hydrocarbons, transformed into glucose in the organism, and are consumed in manual labour and too large quantity they now transformed for heating the body. When absorbed in to glycogen in the liver and into fat, tissues. There is some hydrocarbon in all which is deposited as a reserve in the
our foods.
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The fats butter, oil, lard, etc., play a double part in the economy of the body.IIMANOEK- Just as the hydrocarbons may be trans- formed into fats, the fats may supple ment them in producing work and heat." Moreover, the fat are found in all our tissues, in every cell, for they are indis pensable to the maintaining of the equili brium of the body.
The
The albumens are the nitroganous ele penta in our food, and are best recognised in lean meat, the white of eggs, the rasein of milk the gluten of bread, etc. important thing to have in mind is that by hydrocarbons, and vice versa, there is while it is possible to compensate for fats
for instatay yield nitrogen, but it no substitute for the albumena Gelatine, cannot in any degres supply our need. of albumens
In figuring out what we should eat it ought to be remembered that all of the food swallowed is not utilised by the organism and that some of it is thrown of unchanged. As a rule animal foods are more assimilable than vegetables, D.
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Utilisation of foods. Carbohydrates. Animal (meat, egg, etc.) 38 per cent. Vegetables (and fruits) Mixed regimen
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92 per cent. An average man in absolute.repose uses up about 2,000 calories a day. If he works moderately he uses up 2,400 calories; if No one should make the mistake, however, of try-
works hard 3,500 calories.
To an ancient Greek, the assumption in question would have presented nothing: strange. In Greek political life and though; democracy meant very" definitely what it should mean by its etymology- the exercise of political power by the demos" to the exclusion of the owners of land or other forms of wealth A conflict of interests between the Few and the Many was regarded as a matter of course, and i was equally taken for granted that whichever party held the reins of government would use its power for the benefit of its own members. Ang to live solely on that food richest in calories, for an requires a mixed diet transference of power from the demos" to the "obigoi," or vice versa," meant will not do to say that one gram of albu
to keep the balance of the organism. It coup d'état" and a change in the men yields only, four calories, while a Constitution, not simply the replacement gram of fat yields nine onlories and, of one constitutionally elected party therefore, a man should be fed on fat group by another. Democracy in an alone. Besides the albumens are needed cient Greece was always brought about for repair purposes as well as energy, by revolution, and it tended to be, as in Rusia to-day, a "dictatorship of the proletariat" rather than a system of Tiberty and equality for all.
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Nature and custom have established more or less sane regimens for men and women and it is not wise to diverge too far from them, unless we know precisely why and have weighed all questions, such X5 digestibility, general and specific energy value and the other elements which must be considered, especially in times when all are subject to extraordin ary strain, both of mind and body.
War
eratic methods of government were more general would be a world in which the higher instincts of humanity would be more free to realise themselvest And how are we to answer those who point to past failure of democracy as convincing evidence to the contrary?
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But in our modern use of the term "democracy" we have left etymology far behind For us the word has an ideal connotation which is far more important than its original meaning. Democracy in the modern sense is 'consegnently some thing much harder to define, as it is also a Sixto run on the lines of representative much more difficult of attainment institutions will be more free than Parliament and the ballot box are but another from wrong impulses or D- its outward symbols. It means essential worthy ambitions. Why, then, should ly equality of opportunity for all, freewe assume that a world in which demo dom of conscience, the maximam of in- dividual liberty that is consistent with the good of the "whole, a relation of mutual confidence between the governors and the governed. It subjects neilber the Few to the Many nor the Many to the Few; it transcends that world-cld distinction, and substitutes for it the con- ception of rights and obligations enjoyed and fulfiled by all citizens alike in har One is bound to admit that democracy monious co-operation for the common. in actual practice is very much in the good. It rejects the idea of the State as nature of a pis aller." Autocracy OT power, and takes for its own Aristotle's oligarchy might go on from age to age conception of the State as a means to and produce very good results if only enable men to live the good life. And it the autocrat or the oligarchic group goes beyond Aristotle in postulating that could be trusted always to wish to act the ideal life shall be open to all alike in the best interests of the whole people "Government of the people, for the and to have as much wisdom as benevol people, by the people "may expres tence. But in actual fact the continued aim so long as we think in terms of and exclusive exercise of the functions World that all the people of the Lord perpetuation either of good intentions or politics; but essentially its watchword is of government seems not to tend to the were prophets. Nor is its scope bound of brain-power in the governing family ed by the limits of the individual State. or class. The people writhe under the It is associated with the ideal of peace selfishness or shortsightedness of its and friendship between States, of co- rulers, and can find no way out except by operatice on the part of men of all races buscar un master. It is not so and all citizenships in work for the commuch that the people are necessarily mon good and progress of humanity. Its qualified to fundamental postulate is nothing less, government properly themselves as than the brotherhood of man. And so tbct they
leave cannot possibly to make the world safe for democracy."
the basinesg in the hands of any- "means nothing less than to create condi- body else. That is the historical, nega- the ideals of universal peace and univer tions in which men will be free to realise tive basis of democracy, and it does not Bal brotherhood through the common
seem to be a promising "foundation on which to build a positive ident effort of nations freed from the mutual human life is impossible without faith, fear and distrust which must inevitably and when experience bas shattered faith set them at odds until human lust for in the divinity of kings and the superior domination is effectively carbed. It has goodness and wisdom of obligarchies an nothing essentially te do with giving other. anchorage must be found. Demo power to this class or what; it is, in fact, eratic government, if it has not yet inconsistent with the enforced subjection proved itself capable of fulfling the of any other class or of any nation to highest of human reeds, has at least not any other nation.
been proved a broken reed. It has never THE POWER OF DEMOS,
really had a chance to demonstrate what it can do. Where it has existed, it Tast, or something like that, is what has existed in artificial conditions, ring we have in mind when we speak of fight- ed round with enemies, threatened by the ing to make the world safe for democracy. brute force of lower types of organi- But at the same time we do in some way sation, and compelled to sink below itself associate the realisation of these essen in the mere striving, for self-preservation tially noble ideals with the extension ofas civilised. men in a savage country the power of the "demos. We should are sometimes compelled to do savage not sum up these ideals in the word
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"CARMARTHENSHIRE » having arrived from the above porta, Con- signees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or exten hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the Dec. 6th, 1918 at 6 r.x, will be subject to rant,
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if we did not believe that things. Making, as it does, the highest demands on the intelligence: and the somehow the ballot box is an instrument, idealism of the masses of men, it obvious- and even necessary instrument, of ly cannot realise all its potentialities human progress. And the grounds of until the debris of older system are - that belief are not altogether easy to dis-moved, until social conditions ave been cover. It is not based on common sense, improved, and education brought to a for common sense endorses the Socratic algher level. So we are still free to thesis that the art of government, like idealise democracy: what was merely a any other art, is best practised by those piece of political machinery can be trans- few people who have the neceyimated into a spiritual ideal, and the natural ability and have received the ballot box, originally but an enforced proper training. It is not grounded in and imperfect substitute for the explod science, which would lead us to pected divinity or quasidivinity of the one that the laws of heredity must for ever
oy the few, can become an impregnablast operate to keep the masses of men in a qualitatively inferior condition to the rock for human faith to build on. Who
shallay that the faith will not be justi select few. It can scarcely appeal for fied that, a world safe for democracy, support to history, which cannot show in the very elementary sense of the democracy that did not degenerate into ballot box, is not the only world in which
that ochlocracy, and gives no
no guarantes
humanity can find its wings-L6. in the {Continued at foot of next column.) M.G.
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