e else pay it.

It was the old story of the "have-nots" and the "haves," with the result
that the Reichstag became almost unanimously a Humanist assembly.

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CHAPTER XXI.

Into Berlin.

It seemed strange at the time that the Allies' forces were being kept
out of Berlin till the elections were decided. The wisdom of it was
afterwards ascertained, however.

The allied armies were kept out of Berlin because their presence there
would have given opportunity for tumult, and perhaps seriously
interrupted the course of events the Humanists were, perhaps
unconsciously, shaping in favor of the Allies.

The change in German politics cleared out the Hohenzollern regime,
deposed the Kaiser and his class, and as the chief policy doctrine of
the Humanists was disarmament, it suited the Allies to let the people do
the work for them.

The wisdom of this step was evident when news came through that the
Humanist movement was spreading across France and England.

In Belgium and France it met with more opposition than it did in
Germany. Strange to say the Belgian "Joan of Arc" was the leader. She
preached the cause of "the capitalist" with much vigor. I do not know
why she took up this political campaign. Maybe the wonderful response to
her appeals for financial aid for the starving Belgians won her sympathy
when she saw the capitalistic class that helped her in danger of being
destroyed.

Her eloquence, spiced by anecdote and parable, won many followers. She
pointed out that the doctrine of the Humanist in abolishing world
competition hit at the fundamental principle that made for initiative
and made man utilise thought and self-improvement.

"Abolish competition or distinction," she said, "and all men come under
the one rule, like so many animals."

She pointed to Joffre and Kitchener as successful examples of the old
and well-tried system.

She pointed to Belgium's King, Albert, who fought throughout the war in
the fighting line, sharing the lot of the soldier. She was joined in
her campaign by many of her own sex, even from Berlin, whence many had
departed, at the advent of the Humanist campaign which was spreading
throughout Germany.

When the Reichstag elections were decided, a force from each of the
Allied armies entrained for Berlin and, to my delight, my company was
among those favored.

It is difficult for one accustomed to plain writing to tell in fitting
phrases the wonderful enthusias