The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-27
GERMAN JOURNALIST CHARGES
GERMANY CAUSED THE WAR.

many than the outer world guesses.
BY the admission of their own press,
food riots are frequent and serious
and the discomfort of the people plain
ly glimmers through the chancellor's
recent speech to the reichstag.
| Prussianism which once sat so Sc
curely on the lid, can no longer keep
the lid clamped down. 1t flies up,
and spurts of flaming free speech
leap out-notably from the pen of
| Germans brilliant and fearless journ-
alist, Macmillan Harden.
His latest broadside is the open
charge that the German government
though he admits that the shared
blame for the war goes farther back
and wider afield than the borders of
Future" has been temporarily sup
pressed.
! Hardens more remarkable effort,
however, was the recently published
article, "If | Were wilson, in which
he ingeniously puts his own ideas
into the mouth of our president In
the person of this distinguished neu-
tral he hits out from the shoulder
about equally at Germany and at
the allies. In the face of all these
governments he shakes the threat
of a Europe-wide revolution to follow
the war: indeed he says that such a
revolution is not only the certain re-
suit of the war, but it is the only
certain result 1t will be "the most
gigantic revolution of all times.
| Compared to it the revolutions OF
1889 and 1893 will seem child's play
and whether these changes are to be
made by bloodshed or peaceably Will
depend on whether enough high-min-
ded and dsinterested men will throw
themselves into the supreme task of
reconstruction, and will also depend
on stopping the war while there IS
still some strength or resource for
the making of these changes.
Armstce Possible.
An armistice. he says is possible.
Nothing indispensable remains to be
conquered. Those who clamor for
vengeance and the complete annihila-
tion of their enemies are clamoring
for their own doom. To crush a
nation is to weaken the nations which
crush it. Also it is perilous for gov
ernments to push a war to such a
point that sheer exhaustion compels
the people themselves to demand a
peace and possibly take the making
of il into their own hands.
Ii is when Harden comes to the
terms of European peace that, after
all we have been told about the state
subserviency of German thinkers, we
pause and rub our eyes. He declares
that the days of competitive arma
ment are gone forever. The eXasper
alton of peoples and the lack OF
money will forbid repetition OF thai
disastrous experiment The manutac
, turer of munitions must be nationali
zed. never again. he SAYS, mus
a class of men arise who shall sucF
l the profit from the dripping veins o
1 soldiers" and this deluge has swep
r away the superstition that only wheT
+ spurred by the hope of profits car
- men do great things. The nations
y must not only pool their arguments
but they must pool their best brains
n and he looks to see Ballin, Lloy'
u George and SHINES working together
a We have organized war; now W,
t must organize peace. lnternauona
DO armament must be used to enforce
the DEGREES of a world court. ant
- such militia can only be finance'
l. by letting Europe's war debt becom
y "a fund of atonement," the loan cou
l. pons of which would be valid none
'. in all the European countries whic
" have participated in the war and il
those ready to recognize the pNncipl
of arbitration.
Indemnity Secuted.
All hope of indemnity he bids IN
:, berigerent governments put once an
for all out of their minds. Compare
I, to the debts already accumulate
= even the indemnity which a complet
victor could exact would be as II
- significant as toadstool under
, huge beach tree. Hordes of maine
II soldiers must be maintained, not oil
" " in deoency. but in dignity.
II Finally. this prophet Of new II
.e ropean order bids the belligereni
d bury their hatred quickly and bur
e i. deep. Let the rival empires
- Germany and England be honestl