This is what pure and unadulterated Democracy is, and we have not got it in England:—
“EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.”
For instance, no parent with less than nearly a £1000 a year can now send his boy into the Navy as an Officer!
Nature is no respecter of birth or money power when she lavishes her mental and physical gifts.
We fight God when our Social System dooms the brilliant clever child of the poor man to the same level as his father.
Therefore, we must have such State provision and such State education as will enable the very poorest in the land to let their eligible children rise to Admirals, Generals, Ambassadors, and Statesmen.
Can it be conceived that a real Democracy would have permitted secret treaties such as have been divulged to us, or have scouted the terms of Peace which were allowed only to be seen by Kings and Prime Ministers; or would a real Democracy have flouted the Russian Revolution in its first agonizing throes when gasping for help and recognition?
In a real Democracy, would true Labour leaders have waited on the doormat?
Would a real Democracy wave the red rag of “Empire” in front of these noble self-governing peoples all speaking our tongue in their own free Parliaments, and all of them praying for the hastening of the time when “England, the Mother of Free Parliaments, shall herself be free”?
But the Glorious Epoch is now fast approaching!