SOME WORLD IDEALS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10401, 15 July 1912, Page 2

SOME WORLD IDEALS.

There ate still men who see visions and dream dreams, and who are not afraid ol what the future may bring to the world. Mr Harold Johnson,, in the Daily News, says;— Why ate the nations in travail to the uttermost ends of the earth? 3from the East to the West whet signs are these? What Saviour struggles to birth? China wakes from he r age-long sleep, for the Land of the Rising Sun Has shown the East she may vie with the West for the cargo and the gun: Yellow and swarthy, Mongol and Moor, You shall reckon with these, my son. That God Is one; that men are one; that Faith is ever the same ; That Love is still the nearest word to hint the nameless Name This is the Oread of the Erast and the West when you plumb to the depths, my son; But a creed on the lips is a little thing If it urge not the deed to be done. Hand may be black, white, yellow, or brown, But the hue of the heart is one. Here is a vision seen by the Editor <St the Pall Mall Gazette “The maintenance of the British .Empire may depend, during the next couple of decades or so, upon the action of Canada; and the greatest of the self-governing States under the flag will also play a vital .part in determining whKt permanent relationship is ultimately to exist between the American Rspoblio and the British Empire as a whole. "What might they not do.togetber? We shall not say that they could impose peace upon the world, for a large part of human concerns Is none of their basiness, and wo hope they will never attempt to take the whole universe In charge But they could place all their own common interests npon a basis of impregnable secarAbove all. they could make all the ocean routes, which are the main pathways of human intercourse, as safe as Oxford Street under the quiet supervision of a civil police. They could assure absolutely the peace of the seas and the attainment of every demoorotlo Ideal—springing from the root of tradition, yet unreliing towards strength in freedom—thar. the English -speaking communities hold in common. /“The Senate, well within its rights, may relegate the new arbitration proposals to ‘oald storage,” Other incidental difficulties and delays may be encountered. Years may elapse before the qassfcion of an indissoluble alliance between Eng-lish-speaking communities, destined to include three of the Greater Powers in their own family circle, can praotioaly mooted or wisely Advocated. "But the vision wo have suggested Is the bast hope of the world; and tfddneror later it will come ”