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sntirely new order Of things IN Europe
after the war is over. Mhen the war
ood makes MS exit the millennium VIII
enter The great Kaiser will lift BIS
hand and speak the word ana there
sbsU he a new heaven and new earth
for an Who accept the vsssslage under
The great and only One. German cler-
oymen shall reform religion, German
socjoIogists shall reconstruct society,
! German tinsncieis shall place the Imam
cisl system on q new basis, German
officers shall reorganize all armies and
navies All the different nationalities
Of Europe shall each one have the laws
which by German experts seem pest
suited for its needs and customs ana
live its own life under the protection
of the mighty mailed tst. All these
different nationalities shall constitute
Union. the United States of Europe,
with Germany as the central power and
proiector. Free trade shall exist be-
tween these countries and nationalltles.
In this new order of things Sweden has
been assigned to the leadership Of the
northern counties and will occupy a
place corresponding to Prussia's posi-
tipn in the present German federation.
Finland has been set free and made
one of the stars in the Swedish con-
stellation, but all, of course, shall be
subordinate under the great German
luminary.
Another prominent German professor
and politician, Liszts is his name, has
EXPRESSED the conception Of German
nationalism thus "1he time is passed
when a homogeneous nationality can
exist as a free and independent state
and the time has come for the imperial
state as a superior power to exercise
its sovereignty, so that the German
idea of culture may penetrate all ana
everything and German direction exer-
else the determining influence upon the
different natiOnalities.
AS you will notice the program Of
the German imperialism has nothing to
say about a government of the people
by the people and for the people, either
in national or international politics.
Presumably the House of Hohenzollern
is to be the constitution upon which all
laws shall be founded IN this blessed
union, which, according to another Ger
man professor, shall include all the
countries in Europe, with the exception
of Russia and England.
have already mentioned that within
these United States of Europe there
should exist free trade. This would
stimulate trade and exchange between
! the different countries. What one
lacked in natural resources or through
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| to produce, some other member of the
Union would be able to supply. Thus
I'VE" would be absolutely independent
of the rest of the Unlversum and wax
rich and powerful beyond all human
| Imagination.
But away out on the western edge
of the world there is the land of the
willy Yankee who already is a formid-
able competitor in the world market,
should he not be reckOned with? Oh
no, answer these German statesmen,
we exclude all competition from that
direction by tariff wall, and by recip-
rocal agreement with other nations yet
in the state of development 1--WE"
would first cripple the Yankee parvenu
commercially and then
Here these writers let the curtain
| fall, but if one is curious to know more
about his future Germanic Eden there
are plenty of peekholes in conspicuous
places tempting the Investigator. The
''inspiration" is not by any means con
ferred upon professors and semi-ofiicial
statesmen alone, although these men,
by their personality and prominence,
are thought to lend an air of snhdity
and confidence to these world-reform
schemes. And so some of these erudte
and internationally known persons are
sent out to the different countries tC
work the ground which is now sup
posed to lie fallow, prepare it thorough
ly and SOW the good seed. In the great
Fatherland the newspaper editors anC
writer's in the monthlies are grinding
away on the same theme, knowing wei
enough that their articles will bt
translated and printed in other coun
, tries where there are schemers of tht
! same stripe.
! Some of these German writer's ar,
brutally frank. Hear what the wOrlt
= known Macmillan Harden writes il
) his magazine, "Zukunft " To begin
e with he requests his countrymen t.
r discontinue their "doleful attempts" t
S apologize for Germany's part in thi
e war. "We have not, he writes
= 'been taken by surprise nor unwilling
ly thrown ourselves into this war. w
0 wanted this conflict because we had t,
n and because we dared. Our might an
e power shall create a new right in Eu
e rope. Germany strikes and when con
n quering new territories for her geniu
e and skill the priesthood of all god
s shall praise this fortunate war. We d.
+ not wage war to punish sinners nor t
1 set free dUwntrodden and oppresse
h nations. We carry on war because W
:, are absolutely convinced that German
n after her achievements can deman
4 and shall receive more room in tn
y world and greater possibilities for he
: unlimited capacity for development
e and expansion.
e Continuing he writes: 'Still tn
t powers from which Germany ha
l. wrenched her beginning greatness liV
: and some of them have recovered afte
+ their defeat. Spain and the Neither
It lands. Rome and Hapsburg, France an
d England occupy, rule and colOnize larg
e territories of the most fertile land
Now the time has come for Germany t
e take the place as the leading wor
e power. A conclusion of war which doe
: not assure this country the world lead
i ership would not give conpensato
II enough for the exertion. Even if peac
J. brought dozens of shining billions int
e the state treasury, still the fate of Eu
rope would be dependent upon the wi
It of the United States of America.
IS again America is the mark
o 1--WE are fighting only for ourselves,
emphasizes Harden, after havin
It touched upon the question of maxim
l. Poland free country, which he doe
It not approve Of. On the question O
h poor Belgium he dwells mostly upo
is a rapturous description of the big car
n non, but adds Never has German
J. fought in more righteous cause an
never was war engaged in with
y loftier issue in view, that of further
d ing to the highest degree the happines
y of the conquered. Through FlandeI
J, and clear into Brabant shall now th
y glad tidings go that springtime is az
a preaching, and we Germans are, i