Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-23
GERMANY RUINED
BY PRUSSIANISM
SAYS HARDEN.
BY Macmillan Harden.

by Macmillan Harden.
Berlin-The new order of Europe's
economic foundation and political
superstructure begins with destruc-
ton. Only after wrecking and clear
ing away the debris of what has be-
come rotten can young life find room.
Bolshevism is not anarchistic nor
communistic in the primitive Chris
tan, Utopian sense, but the sociali-
zation of means Of production to
clear necessary room for the new
structure.
Bolshevism socializes every indus
trial enterprise in which more than
100000 roubles, is invested and every
business whose working capital ex-
ceeds 10000 roubles. Bolshevism
takes their political and electoral
right from capitalists, gives only the
smallest nations to the bourgeoise,
and by the mass production of rouble
notes-which it is said has reached
half billion aily-depreciates the
money capital still in circulation.
AS the result of huge war expendi-
lures, the paper money system has
bloomed exotically almost all over
Europe. The German mark has
shrunk to quarter Of its former
value, the Austrian kronen still deep
er. So, without the employment of
Lenines violent means, condition is
certain in which every one who can
possibly work will be dependent on
the fruits of his labor.
Wilson FOrmulates Freedom.
Political atomization looking to the
dissolution of empires and state
unions has begun in our east on the
bridge between Asia and Europe. In
Russia the two basic instincts of
promitive Christianity, disestablish-
ment of the state and appropriation
of personal property, are first to see
the light. In the same hour, as if
with finer ear than the others who
had listened at times loom, President
Wilson coins the longing for an inner
and outward freedom-not merely for
formal freedman for peace, JUS
tice and humanity, longing which
France was the first to feel.
Whoever would see his experience
confirmed by the bible, let him read
the prophecies of Joel, Ezekiel and
Jeremiah and the testament of the
twelve patriarchs, wherein he will
find the announcement of the unity of
peoples and of the new league whose
laws are III the hearts OF all.
Prussia Never a Nation.
Is a third Rhine league in process
of birth? Is the conclusion to be
drawn that the Rhinelands can be
chained only by force to Prussia and
that, after every defeat, this state in
1919, as in 1906, tends to incline to-
ward the Gallo-Celtic side? No. What
is now taking place in the Rhinelands
has nothing to do with national feel
ings. There never was Prussian ma
ton.
Prussians were conquerors and coll
onizers and comported themselves
everywhere as if in their colonial ter
ritories. Prussia became a great and
seemingly unbreakable mutual bene-
fit association. And since industry
became the all-dominating form of
kulutr, the inhabitants of the Rhine
lands, although basically differing in
temperament from the old Prussians,
no longer hesitated to go into this
rich, income-yielding mutual profit
association.
Rhine Wild for War.
Prussianism was complete. No
where famed war enthusiasm higher
than in the Rhine provinces. Nowhere
else did hate against enemies assume
such grotesque forms nor were more
rubber stamps with the blasphemous
"Gott strafe England" motto used.
Their unity of will with the junkers
was complete, not only in antipathy
and mistrust for the kaiser, whom
both found too black, too lacking in
courage, too conciliatory toward mod
ernization and too vain and greedy
applause, but also in their war aims
Germany was to lay hands on the
most important source of raw materi-
al in Europe and draw the lands of
the east so firmly into its sphere of