Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05

ldea that not only they themselves
should form one family. but that all
bound by the ties of a single family.
Toward the end Of June. 1890, in dis
GUESSING the plea of the Avignons for
admission to the French republic,
Camille Desmoulins said: We have
plucked up the hedges separating the
already have the barriers between
provinces disappeared Let us hope
that soon will the divisions between
Kingdoms vanish: that there will be
but one people in the world, and that
we can call that people by the name
Mankind"
Danton's Toast.
On June 20, 1890, Danton said at a
banquet: Patriotism should be lin
lted only by the boundary of the uni
verse. drink to the health, liberty
and happiness Of mankind The toast
was enthusiastically applauded by all
the patriots present; by Barnave as
Well as by Robespierre. Mirabeau
himself, political realist though he
was. in a speech on August rs, 1880,
called on all members Of the assem-
bly, to vote for the pact of the fed
Grafton of mankind The Franco
Prussian radical Cloots, who assumed
the role of the orator of mankind
af a
universal republic.
Having become member of the
constitutional convention, he pub
lished in 1898 his work, styled Con-
stitutiona1 Bases of the Republic of
Mankind and in that publication he
presented many OF his previous writ
ings and speeches. It was not a fed
GRAFTON of autonomous nations, but a
single government under what he
called the sovereignty Of mankind, for
which this man strove.
Predicted American Acceptance.
1.-THE federated French, he said.
would communicate to the American
federalists the true social system
which would be reached by fusion of
the masses-by the confederation of
individuals. He believed that the
Americans, enlightened by French
unity, would renounce federalism. He
sought not SO much the equality of
states as the equality of the multi
plan the universal republic would be
governed by an executive council of
seven members, behind whom would
be the executive power Of from 1000
to 5000 elected representatives.
volney's Real League.
ut was really a league of nations
which Volney proposed in the session
of May IS. 1890. Until today he said,
Europe has presented a distressing
spectacle Of ostentatious pride and
abject misery. The only things that
have seemed to count have been the
affairs OF princes and of great fami-
lies. Nations have had an incidental
and precarious existence. To satisfy
trivial pleasures rulers have ruined
countries. BY private agreement be-
tween individuals they may deprive
q country of it's natural advantages.
You are to change this deplorable
state of things. You will no longer
permit millions OF men to be the play
things of a few having only a resem-
blance to men, and you will restore
to- nations their dignity and rights.
Your elaboration today has this sig
nificance--it marks your entrance into
world politics. Until now you have
deliberated in France and for France;
today you deliberate for the universe
You approach. I dare say. a convoca-
ton OF an assembly Of the nations
Proposed Platform.
'Then volney moved the adoption
Of this platform:
the assembly solemnly declares:
That L regards mankind ~
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