192 THE THIRD POWER 



And the true remedy is one which is not only con- 

 sistent with peace, but one which demands peace. 

 The late Lord Tennyson wrote of his vision of what 

 the earth was one day to be : 



"Robed in universal harvest, up to either pole she smiles, 

 Universal ocean softly washing all her warless isles." 



That is the ideal. Abundance for all, general 

 content, the greatest productiveness, justice, honest 

 pay for honest toil, and universal peace — these are 

 the things that the American Society of Equity 

 would have the world 'enjoy. To keep the people 

 happy is better than going to war to make them for- 

 get their unhappiness. It is in this direction that 

 we must look for federation, not of Europe against 

 America, not of one class against another, not of 

 the people against their government — but of all 

 people, of all the nations for the general good. It is 

 through such industrial and commercial alliance that 

 political alliances must come. The Russian, the 

 American, the Argentine, the Indian and all other 

 farmers ought to be friends, not enemies. They 

 will be friends when relieved from the spell of the 

 speculators and gamblers in farm products, the mar- 

 ket manipulators and false crop reporters. And 

 when they are friends their governments will be 

 friends. 



So this society is not American except as it is 

 domiciled in America. It is world-wide, and there 

 is not a toiler in the world who will not be benefited 



