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One thing it will show will be the regularity with which some ideas crop up again and again, They may seem for a time to be dead, but they are dormant only, Such an idea is that of Dicta tor ship.

Nothing.

They quarrel among themselves, they are humbugged, their political leaders betray them; their Trade Union leaders negotiate and dina with their oppressors; whenever there is danger of real changes a patriotic cry is invented, and the people themselves overthrow what they have set up..

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During the latter half of last century and the first years of this one any suggestion that there might

|_ FREE FROM CARE. be a revival of absolute rule would have been laughed at. Parliament- What the people need, according Home Mail:- Loward, from America" by Pres. Jefferson; Out ary government, elected legislatures, to the dictator, is a leader who is Ministers responsible to the legisla- so certain of himself and his poli-ward for America and Europe via Siberia by Empress of Japan, 10 tures, Judges with power to de-cies that he will force them upon cide when Ministers overstepped everybody. The people will not ob- their authority these seemed to be ject to force if they see that it is installed so firmly that they look-used for their benefit. They will ed eternal. The most progressive stand solid behind a leader of this nations bad them, the others want-type, so long as they feel sure of ed them.

him. They will not have freedom, in the political sense, but they will have a life free from care and anxiety about the future, their THE CAT JUMPS. -

homes will be free from the burdens Exactly the same permanence had and discomforts that make women appeared to belong to kingship. Ta old before their time and drive men doubt that it was ordained by God to drink; their daily round, will was impious. To favour any other be free from the discontent and de- form of rule was treason. Kings pression that naturally affect wage- were eredited with miraculous pow. slaves working to make others rich, ery. Their right to govern was with no hope of anything better for

How could it be supposed that they would ever be scrapped i

held to be divine. No other mo thod of Government was believed

to be possible: if it were possible, it would be morally wrong.

up

in

themselves.

To turn impatiently from such an argument would be childish. To throw oneself into a lofty attitude and decline to discuss the matter is What those who dislike

the idea of dictatorship have got to do is to find an answer to these pleas..

Yet today kingship, in the old sense, is utterly discredited. Kings asinine. exist as figure-heads. They sign Acts of Parliament or put their seals on the edits of a dictator. If they try to assert themselves, they are

There is an answer, but I have pulled

sharply even,

never yet heard it given. I have Afghanistan and Siam.

heard people say that without poli- To-day, too, we see how hasty it tical freedom men cannot be good was of the Victorians to assume that citizens. I have board, them say dictatorship was a form a govern- that no dictator can be trusted to ment extinct. A number of coun- govern well. I have listened to tries are under dictatorship rulo fervent denunciations of the notion among them two of these which that comfort and well-being are the are called Great Powers. In Rus-beat things in life. None of these sia, it is dictatorship of the prole replies seem to me to be effective. | tariat; in Italy, the Duce (leader)

The answer I would make is that, is backed by the chiefs of capite unless democracy can give.oconomic is curry and financo. Ruseis anos domocystical freedom is

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1. I think I have suggested before Politicians have been kicked into Dictator? IEK the work of

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