Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-13
AS HARDEN SEES IT
World Swept By Revolution Into
Utopia of Nations

Lohtpl AiAto
Utopia of Nations
A concrete outline of the League of
Nations, as conceived By Macmillan
Harden. is contained in his issue of
the Zukunft of October %, copy of
which has just been received here. In
it he portrays an international league
that will legalize and guarantee as
worldwide legal tender all the out
standing certificates of war loans of
the various European states. q solu'
tion which alone he deems possible in
view of the tremendous depletion Of
actual European money holdings now
-and in the near future, due to the
wastage Of war. He describes also the
relative positions and functions OF
the various European nations III the
Utopia of the league. In the article
he says:
1--WE do not desire 4 peace That is
an armistice, but rather an armistice
from which shall come forth firm
and noble peace-Europe's Eastertide.
We want it today, because it is to
day possible and therefore, necessary.
We, all human beings who are not
blinded by unreasoning fury, whose
number each day increases in thrcng
:. al ! \
from both camps, man by man, the
voices of the dead.
Far off there still stands aloof only
those who imagine that this WAY IS in
its essence similar to other wars and
that it can. indeed must. end like
others, with victory and surrender
treaty and indemnity. To these there
has not yet come the dawning reali-
Zaticn that the safest, the only con-
!, sequence Of tht; war will be the most
tremendous revolution OF all times
one that sweeps blazing through Ell,
rope, that plows up the entire CONT
nent, one compared to which those Iot
5 1889 and 1893 may seem but MS.
! chievous sport Of children; and that
every man of good viii and natura
piety mus fervcntly labor TO protect
this revolution from blood Outlines
: and to continc it TO the world Of the
l spirit.
"No state, no class, neither man nor
woman, will after this war, after this
Geluge, be as before, Constitution and
law, prejudice and deliberate judy.
ment will, like reeds. at the waters
edge, be snapped by the whirling
storm. Let u: take care that from the
: votive altar Of the new league ttht
: league Of humanity. animated with 6
goG-like soun, a lovely fragrance
shall be waited heavenward, like
Noah's grateful incense on the day
when the second dove brought back in
its bill to his ark the olive branch
through The foliage Of which shone the
message: Peace on Earth,
''No State that was snatched along
, into this flood of the Deluge can ex.
pect other indemnity than those which
can be effected by thrift and savings.
That great power which curtails is
annual expenditure for land ard sea
forces by . single billion, may, after
another generation. once more behold
the rosy drawn of financial order. And
what is 10 become Of the debts and
the sinking funds? For the savings
barely suffice at the utmost TO cover,
after a fashion. the new needs that
drag along in the train OF the war.
Taxes and customs duties that would
%'el! even the interest or the tens Of
billions of debts would necessarily
pa!alyze trade and industry il com
petition with America. Australia, and
the Yellow Void; would necessarily
grind to bits the idea Of private prop
erty; would in fear of possible con
fscation Of property, drive those who
are half way satisfied into neutral
countries Of a healthier management;
and would eat away the entrcprencur's
will TO dare any extensive operation
as mould decay the rose leaf. Money
does not grow like grass. What, then,
shall happen"
lIAR L nEo 1.N-nac. II,.,