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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1912

A GRAVE TENDENCY OF THE DAY. [BY HAROLD OWEN. IN DAILY GEAPNIO."]

When the nineteenth century was clos ing everything that seemed abnormal was excused, if not explained, by the comment: Oh, it is in du siècle!! But now we are not at the end of a century, and so another phrase is coined “It in the spirit of the age. Well, what is the

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the most general indication of tendencies, the spirit of the age is the defiance of authority. Everybody is in revolt. Law and order are in contempt. Decorum is derided. Manners are dead. Self-con- trol is despised.

Let us take a glance through the columns of a single newspaper of a single day "Civil War Conditions Possible"

that startling headline refers to the coal-strike that looms over, us, and for once the heading is not in advance of the text. Then: Mr. Keir Hardie's Attack on the King" "'—a brutal vulgarity, an unintelligent disrespect for con scientious Sovereign, Next, a few com- ments from B London magistrate, inspired by the behaviour of some young women (not "political offenders this time) committing violent assaults on other women This is only another illustration of what is happening day after day where young women show & complete absence of anything like self contro complete contempt for law and order The whole nature of the sex seems: to be altered.'

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Next, just to connect these phenomena directly and plainly with the spirit of anarchy itself, we have a strange English sset whose creed is to obey no law of the. land-spiritual brotherhood" which does not recognise the law, and whose members decline to give evidence at a police-court."I decline to help you in your dirty work," says one of the brother- hood, and the magistrate promptly gives. bim seven days. I have not come here to help you with your dirty work," saya ......... another spiritual brother, slightly varying the formula, and he gets seven days; and as he leaves the court gives this spiritual admonition to the magistrate (though it seems poor satisfaction for seven days):- There are two ways open to you, either to repent or hang yourself!"

TOWARDS A SMASH-UP.!!

I turn the page to try to come across something a little more reassuring, and find the principal of a well-known school calmly contemplating, if not actually pro- dicting, the smash-up of civilisation !"

Well, things certainly do look as though they were tending that way. Perhaps these later manifestations of unrest are the result of last-August, when England was very rear indeed to "civil war con- ditions," and when even the schoolboys went out on strike-until they were birch- ed into contrition and obedience by authority. But what accounted for the avents of last August; and how was it that even in England, the land of " settled Government," the land to which the re- fugees from disorder and revolution in other lands have always fed, the land in which foreign potentates invest their money in preference to their own insecure home securities how was it that even we in England became familiarised, in a weak, with the whole idea of revolution?

I cannot say, nor even conjecture. But perhaps something must be put. down to

the fact that for six years certain mem- bers of an unenfranchised sex have been openly proclaiming their defiance of law, order and Government and to the fact that even some of those members who do not physically defy the law nevertheless hold that a political change, if asked for by any section of the population, must be conceded, and instantly conceded, and must not even be argued against, despite Government, or Parliament, or electorate, Perhaps this little revolutionary move- ment more than any other has spread the infection of revolt, and familiarised us with the idea of a contempt for authority. But whether this be a minor cause or only a major symptom, the revolt and con- tempt are plain enough.

IS BRITISH CHARACTER CHANGING ? Has something suddenly snapped within ust Is the national character changing! Ia the old traditional English respect for law and order undergoing a wholesale revision, becoming all tradition and ceas- ing to be facti We have read of

emcutes in France, disturbancea to Germany, revolutions in Portugal, and strike riots in America, and we have always complacently said: "Ah, these foreigners! and thanked Heaven we lived in England. But five months ago a little mob of " respectable people,"

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in little villas in Wales, joined a bigger mob of shop-looters and helped them- gelves, and went home with their loot. fast as naturally as though they were going home with their marketing.

What is behind it all I only ask, and cannot answer. But certamly the spell of law-abidingness neems to have broken, and Authority is acorned in its sent. All these things may mean nothing, of course, But before every storm comes the first breath of wind, and perhaps all these. things are the straws that should tell us whence the wind blows Whether the. storm is to follow the straws I do not know. All-I know is that the straws are there; and it is the historians who are always able to tell us what they mean after the event. And perhaps after the event we shall ourselves be wiser in good many things than we are now.

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