chapter 38

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    By this new Magna Charta of I^oyalty, the people of the tries now at war must swear: first not to discuss, meddle or interfere in any way with the politics of the present war; sedly, absolutely to accept, submit to and abide by whatever terms of peace their actual rulers may decide upon among themselves. This new Magna Charta of Loyalty, will at once give the actual rulers of the tries now at ower and, with power, ce to make peace; in fact, power and ce at oo order and and peace. I am perfectly sure that as soon as this power is givehe actual rulers of the tries now at war, will at once order and and peace. I say, I am perfectly sure of this, because the rulers of the tries now at war, uhey are absolute incurable lunatics or demons, which 藏书网everybody must admit that they are not, _no, not even, I will veo say here, the most slandered man now in Europe, the Emperor of Germany, _they, the rulers of the tries now at war, must see that for them together to tio spend nine million pounds sterling of the blood and sweat-earned money of their people everyday in order to slaughter the lives of thousands of i men and to destroy the homes and happiness of thousands of i women, is really nothing but infernal madness. The reason why the rulers, soldiers and diplomats of the tries now at war ot see this, is because they feel themselves helpless; helpless before the panic of the mob, _the panic of the crowd of plain men and women; in fact, as I said because the panic of the crowd, _the panic of the mob has seized and paralysed their brains. I say therefore the first thing to be done, if the present actual situation now in Europe is to be saved, is to rescue the rulers, soldiers and diplomats of the tries now at war from the panic of the mob, _the panic of the cro９９ｌiｂ.wd of plain men and women by giving them power.

    The tragic hopelessness of the situation now in Europe, I want to say here further, lies not only in the helplessness of the rulers, soldiers and diplomats, but also in the helplessness of everybody in the tries now at war. Everybody is helpless and ot see that this war, wanted by nobody and brought on only by the panic of the mob, is an infernal madness, because, as I said, the panic of the mob has seized and paralysed the brains of everybody. One  see this even in Professor Dison, who writes to inveigh against the war,_to denouhe rulers, soldiers and diplomats fing on this rofessor Dison too, without being scious of it, has the panic of the mob in his brain. He begins his article by stating that this article of his is not a "stop the war" paper. He goes on to say:

    "Being in the war, I think, as all Englishmen think, we must go on fighting until we  emerge from it with our terroritory and security intad with the future peace of Europe assured as far as human wisdom  assure it. " The iy and security of the British Empire and the future peace of Europe to be obtained only by going on indefinitely spending nine million pounds sterling of good money and slaughtering thousands of i men everyday! The monstrous absurdity of such a proposition, I believe, has only to be stated, to be seen by any one who has not the panic of the mob in his brain. The peace of Europe! Why, I think if this rate of spending and slaughtering goes on for ah of time, there will certainly be peace, but no Europe left on the map of the world. Indeed if there is anything which will show how really and utterly unfit the plain men and womeo decide on the question of pead war, this attitude of mind of a man even like Professor Dison clusively shows it.

    But the point I want to insist upon here, is that everybody even in the tries now at war wants peace, but nobody has the power to make peace, to stop the war. Now the fact that nobody has the power to make peace, to stop the war, m..akes everybody believe that there is no possible way of making peace; makes everybody despair of the possibility of making peace. This despair of the possibility of making peace it is which prevents everybody in the tries now at war from seeing that this war wanted by nobody and brought on only by the panic of the mob, is really nothing but an infernal madness. The first thing to be doherefore, in order to make everybody see that this war is nothing but an infernal madness is to show everybody that there is a possibility of making peace . In order to make every-body see that there is a possibility of making peace, the very first and simple thing to do is at oo stop the war; to i some oh full power to stop the war; to ihe rulers of the tries now at war with absolute power by making, as I said, a Magna Charta of Loyalty, _absolute power to order and and the war to be stopped at once. As soon as everybody sees that the war  be stopped, everybody in the tries now at war, everybody except perhaps a few absolute incurable lunatics, will be able to see that this war wanted by nobody and brought on only by the panic of the mob,_is really nothing but an infernal madness; that this war, if tinued, will be ruinous even to the tries which will emerge victorious from it. As soon as the rulers of the tries now at war have the power to stop the war and everybody in the tries now at war sees and realises that this war is an infernal madness, it will then and only the only possible, but easy for a man like President Wilson of the Uates to make a successful appeal, as the Ex-President Roosevelt did during the Russo-Japanese war, to the rulers of the tries now at war to order and and the war to be stopped at ond then to find a way to make a perma peace. I say it will be easy then for a man like President Wilson to make a successful appeal for peace because, I believe, in order to make peace, the only important thing the rulers of the tries now at war will have to do is, to build a sp<tt></tt>ecial lunatic asylum and arrest and clap into it the few absolute incurable lunatics, _men like Professor Dison who have the panic of the mob in the brain, _the panic for the iy and security of the British Empire and the future peace of Europe!

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