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PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1927.
THE HONG KONG DAN
CRITICS OF DEMOCRACY.
DEAN INGE AND BERNARD SHAW.
INDIVIDUAL MORALITY . HERD MORALITY.
A SYSTEM OF SHAMS
WE HAVE NOT YET HAD EXPERIENCE OF A GOVERN- MENT OF THE LARGE' BRIBERS, COMING INTO POWER WEIGHTED WITH NUMEROUS PLEDGES FOR WHOLESALE CONFISCATION-DEAN INGE.
́ ́A COUNTRY-GOVERNED BY ITS PEOPLE IS AS IMPOS- SIBLE AS A THEATRE GOVERNED BY ITS AUDIENCE.-MR. BERNARD SHAW,
How shall we be governed seventy-five years. hence ? The Americans, who are the only real Conservatives left, would bring out their Victorian shibboleths, and tell us that the irrésistible march of Demaerney must continue till all our effete survivals are abolished, But on the other side of the Atlan- te the word Democrney is charged with emotional values which have very little to do either with the meaning of the word or with our experience of that particular ad- venture in government. In fact. Democracy in America nienas anything or nothing at all, which makes it an excellent slogan,
We, who have seen the thing at close quarters are not inclined to Jarn any more incense before the fetish. It was a necessary phase in political evolition; that it is the "final phase hardly anyone believes any longer. It is in the curious position of having to friends, though we all did lip-service to it when we wanted to bring the Americans into the war. The rich have never liked it or believed in it. The middle class, that patient Isaacher owed, between two bur- dras, would prefer almost any ather form of government. The labouring class used it as a weapon to destroy privilege, but is now thoroughly out of patience with . All the new radical avençats are openly anti-democratie. Deinocracy continues only beenuse there seenis to be no alternative, or because we don't like the look of the alterna tives-Lenin, Mussolini, Pópe.
or
Bussin. I we compare the Rus- sian Revolution with the- French, we can see how far the world has moved in a hundred years. And the movement has been away from the ideas of 1799," -
One of the advantages of Demo- eracy is that it is so unworkable that it covers a whole system of shams, some of which are tolerably serviceable. Públic opinion medi- aces between herd-morality and the much higher morality of conscien- tipus individuals. It je also more intelligent than the impulses of the herd, being to some extent inspired by respectable thinkers Repre- sentative government still, produces a capable set of men to net as legis lators; and, though they are no longer allowed to vote as they please, their masters for the time being are not so much the electors as the Cabinet secret committee which is quite undemocratic, and in a sense unconstitutional; it has grown because it was needed. We have also the equivalens of Second Chamber in the permanent Civil Service-a, very able body of men who would make it difficult for a Labour Government to fulfil its wilder promises. It's these mitig tions of Democracy which make its continued existebte possible"and perhaps expedients of this kind may keep it in being for the ree mainder of the century.
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All forms of governinent are had: but there is hardly any which could not be made, to work satisfactorily at we all chose as our motto the maxim which Mr. Bernard Shaw says is the test of a gentleman: Try to put into the common stock a little more than you take out." As for private property, let us end with St. Thomas Aquinas: "The possession of riches is not unlaw. ful if the order of reason be ob served that is to say, that a man posantses justly what he owns, and that he uses it in a proper manner for himself and others."
W. R. INGE.
WHEN DEMOCRACY IS A DELUSION.
MR. SHAW'S VIEW.
The FabianSecdety in iten ouncement of its six lectures on "Political Democracy-Will it Pry- vail gives the following aynopais of Mr. Bernard Shaw's lecture, "Democracy as a delusion," which will be delivered on November 23rd.
ple is as impossible as a theatre "A country governed by its peo- managed by its audience, The audience is the final judge of how a theatre is managed, but what is nowadays called the sanction of its judgment consists in its power to stay away from the performances. This sanction is not now available for misgoverned or persecuted peo- pics. It was resorted to by the Pilgrim Fathers, the Huguenots, the Irish, and the Russians, and it has always played a part in emigration, but nowadays govern menta control both emigration and immigration, and a badly governed people must stick it out as best it can or change the Government. Democracy is not a delusion when it means the provision of zome means by which a dissatisfied per ple can change its rulers. It is a delion ani very mischievous one when it means that the people must govern theraselves. No cap- able critic of mankind has ever encouraged this delusion. From Shakespeare to Diekens and Ruskin our great critics of humanity have Wholesale. Confiscation. denounced our Governments ier do- We bave not yet had experience done and leaving undone things ing things they ought not to have Government of the large they ought to have done, but none bribers, coming into power weight of them have ever for a moment with numerous pledges of whole countenanced the fiction. of the de- sale confiscation. the
We cannot exmocratic man and his twin brother, peet cscape this fate much the economic man. Towards Despotism.
longer, and the results may con- vince "those who have anything to
Why The Delusion Prevails. History indientes that Demo-
Inge that a continuance of demo. "The fiction of the economic man cracies are short-lived. Van Sybeleratic institutions would be has worked to some extent because, said that universal suffrage always suicidal. But I think we shall go though nobody has ever done no heralds the end of popular governou as we are, thout any constitu- thing but what he could make the ment. Tocqueville saw that the tional change. Schemes of nation most money by doing, yet every more successful Democracy is inalisation are likely to be dropped body, when he has chosen his parti- | Tvelling a population, the less resince wherever they have been tried, cular form of activity will, other sistance the next despotism will the eqnsequence has been a heavy things being equal, take a shilling loss to the Exchequer. What we rather than six-pence for any unit may expect to see if the imposition of its product. There is a similar of heavier and heavier burdens residual workability about the de- upon-industry, and the stendy moratic man, the man who can. Democracies. a growth of the new parasitic class govern himself better than anyone other eritie has said, always die which is already sucking the life else can govern him. If you police young, and of the 5301 two blood of the nation.
him, tax him, provide a body of disenses the destruction of Da
A large proportion of the popu law for him, provide employment tional credit and prosperity by predatory legislation, and the
Intion already lives on the rates for him, provide a religion for him, emergence of militant groups which and taxes-the young, the old, and fix a social status for him, regulate the State is too weak to control over a million of unemployed "No his dress, his manners, his mar-
The power and the danger of De- though all admit that it is the most
government dares to touch the doleriage and family relations, hi
education, and so forth for him, mocracy both rest on a superstition deadly instrument of demoralisa. you may reach a point at which it -an imagined divine or natural tion which has ever been devised
may be possible to consult him as sanction. The ballot box is a Urin Each year that it lasts makes it further regulations. It is only by to whether he will submit to some and Thummin for ascertaining the more impossible to rescue the dole- will of the Deity. The odd man receivers from habits, of idleness unconsciously taking the initial somehow enjoys plenary inspira: In a few years the unemployed be- steps for granted that we have ar-
"Yox populi, vox Dei.' But the voice of the people on one dead-weight on industry, and a the political animal of Mr. Laski's con permanently unemployable, aived at our conceptions of maa 18 notable occasion cried Crucify) him and its verdicts are often temptation to all who prefer foot lecture and the economic animals
ball, cinemas, and chocolate of the Manchester school.." not much more intelligent than
money to honest labour.
Government A Fine Art, this. As Sir Henry Maine wrote: "Univeran suffrage would have
So far as I enn see, the only gor
"The crux of the matter is that prohibited the spinning jenny and ernment which would be strong government is a fine art requiring power loom, the threshing machine enough to bring this disastrous for its exercise not only certain and the Gregorian calendar; it state of things to an end would be specific talents and a taste for the would have restored the Stuarts." that form of government which we business, but a mental comprehen- The art of the demagogue is that are least likely to see a bureau- siveness and an energy which only cratic State-Socialism resting on a small percentage of people possess of the parrot; he acts on the sug-military force. Another great war,
in the degree necessary for leader- some senseless catchword. It is trunks, might lead us to acquiesce are willing to acquire the art for gestibility of the crowd by repeat followed by revolutionary" out ship. Of this percentage not ail not a pleasant trade; in fact, in this type of government; but it its own sake or that of the com so repulsive that men of high is wholly alien to the temper and munity. Normally it is left to am character often refuse to have any traditions of the British nation, bitious or merely demineering pro- thing to do with democratic
and perhaps we are the least likely ple, Great emergencies may rouse politics.
"Few, Блут Louis Simond, "will take the trouble of among all of the nations of Europe the reluctant man whom Plate can- persuading the people, except those to put ourselves under such a sys sidered the ideal ruler from cul- tro). Failing this, I believe we tivating his garden or his hobbies who have an interest in deceiving shall continue to try to make De- to lay hold of the reins of power "them." An American has remark
and save his country, but the world cannot live on emergencies,
meet with. Others have said the
same thing-a democracy may end íi a despotism, but not in Socialism, which belongs to B different order.
tion.
י
ed that those who shout Abraham mocracy work till the end of the Lincoln's claptrap about "govern- century; but we shall be in the con- ment of the people, by the people, dition of an animal devoured by and for the people usually want parasites, and less and less able to to live on the people, by the people, keep itself in a state of health and
vigour. and for themselves. It is an ignoble art, because it consists The Nation, Not The Populace... mainly of vicarious bribery. dividuals sometimes rise above selfishness; classes never. Herd morality s.centuries behind indivi dual morality.
"The Ideas Of 1789."
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pinches."
The problem is how to secure the services of competent rulers without delivering ourselves into the hands of tyrants and talented Wack- guards, as we have done in the case of industry. This problem is cer-i A good government should of tainly not solved by votes for evory- coure be organic, representing the body. Nevertheless, it is necessary nation, not the populace, which is that the citizen should have a vote, only the most numerous class. The as he alone knows when the political future is with organised and, skill shoe fa hurting him, though be ed direction, as Mr. Wells has so seldom knows evactly where it And yet the democratic machine often told us; but this is peculiarly seems to the cupidity of the masses difficult to obtain under dehnocracy. to work too slowly. The millen Thero are also dangers in over-or- Under bareaucratic nium comes to nearer. The pro- ganisation. cess of dividing up the worldly tyranny the individual life may much more difficult than might happens there will be no more have been supposed.
fruitful effort. But I do not think The Syndi calists already speak of Democracy that we in England need fear this, as & hourgeois conerption. Why, though the same result may follow if the Treasury lies in wait for they ask, should the majority rule! all savings. The valge of institu- The majority must obey those who tions,' says Mr. H. AL. Fisher, are wiser, and above all mare de depends upon the extent to which termined, than themselves, This
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but hopes to know definitely when he views X-ray photographs taken with the air in the brain. The four ventricles were drained of the cere brospinal fluid, in which the brain is suspended, and the air, was forced in to fill the vacuum thus caused..
The air in an X-ray picture photo- SUNDAY, OCT. 30th at 9.15 graphs dark, and atainor, if there is one, will show in white relief against it. Dr. Dandy originated the air injection to locate brain obstructions five years ago, and
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He is in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Prof. Wilbur was brought to tradition of popular government muneration of merit," This is where, when the obstruction is Johns Hopkins following a collapse the revolutionary party, if vic sound Liberal maxim, which recalls located by the infiltrated air. Dr. in New York, where he fell to the 'lorious, makes Do attempt to the days when Liberals had prin- Walter E. Dandy, brain surgeon, floor, apparently dead. He is suf establish it. There is 120 ciples and believed in them. There will onerate. Dr. Dandy said after fering no pain, and there is po
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De is room for such a party in the the air injection that Prof. Wilbur apparent indication of paralysis, mocracy is spurned with such un-
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