The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-26

as a purely dynsstic one; and that,
though after the declaration of war by
the French Emperor the German work.
ingmen were obliged TO give up their
opposition for time, We, Immediately
after the catastrophe Of Sedan and the
proclamation The Republic in France,
they revived their call for peace, ener.
geticaliy protesting against the contin-
uation OF war, the chief author Of
which had met with well-deserved
doom. Their call fpr peace was not to
the taste of Count Bismarck and his
companions in Fewer; All leading mem
Jcrs Of oar party on whom the Prus>lan
government could lay their hands were
arrested, ana transported IL chains to
Lothian, little fortress near Tie Prus-
sian frontier, v here, with one single ex-
cePiion,& they are still kept close pris-
oners. or this act Of scandalous op-
preston Carried out by Gen. Vogel
Won Falckensteln, one Of those monar-
chlcal, model soldiers, whose brutality h
to those below him Is only surpassed by .
their seryIllty to those above them of
this act of oppression the newspaper
press, being almost exclusively the .
property Of the privileged classes, has I
taken hardly any notice, and would
have taken still less, had not the brave I
Democrat, Jacoby, who belongs to the
middle class, been arrested, too, on the
same grounds measure which crca.
ted great excitement amongst our
middle classes and could not be passed
over in silence by the middle-class
: papers.
AS things stand at present, | may say
! without fear of being contradicted,
[ there is not one workingman, who is
able to think, in all Germany, that does
/, not condemn the present war as a war
| carried on not for the country, but
!. against it-as war carried on by the
enemies of liberty against democratic
Germany Just as well as against reptbh-
: can France. About tins more by and
! by. To-day ! shall venture only upon
the following short remarks
! There are two different phases to be
q distinguished in this unfortunate war,
q the one beginning on the 9th of Au-
: gust, the day Of the French declaration
/ of war, and ending on the 4th of Sep
i TENDER, the day of the proclamation Of
] the Republic in France; the second
phase beginning on the 4th of Septem-
Der and still continuing up to the day
France cleared herself Of the Preacher
Gus infamy Of the Empire, the war was
for Germany one Ct defense, and even
q we Democrats and Socialists could not
deny this, though we knew very well
that Count Bismarck was as guilty as
9 Bonaparte, and that the war was only
e the necessary result of the grasping
: policy of Prussia, which had led Bis
g marck to seek Bonaparte's alliance in
& Btdrrite, 665, and then in the following
J year with the moral assistance of this
% same Bonaparte, TO destroy the German
II Confederation, ard to sever thirteen
y millions Of Germans inhabitants OF
4UStrial from the rest Of Germany in
/ short the Dar Of 1870 tcas only the un-
o oroidajle consequence of the tCdr Of 1866
,, However, some how or other, Bonaparte
q was forced to be the oggressor, and
b Germany had to defend herself.
But from the day Bonaparte's gov
z eminent was overthrown by the French
= people, the war has changed its char
u acter; from a war OF defence on the
\ part Of Germany,it has become a lcdr Of
y aggression and conquest, with the avowed
aim Of wrenching from France part
y IF her territory and the unavowe1 aim
Of destrogiRq The netcy founded Republic
N Count Bismarck is an aristOcrat, bis
- power is founded on the immense
n standing army which Prussia has L
NJ uphold. ii the French Republic sur
~ wives the war and succeeds in founding
u. democratic institutions, then the fall d
N abSo}a'iSDt an Prussia is only matter Of
a time. Bismarck in Prussia requires a
N despotic France; and despotism in
u France means the Empire. Therefore
:, we have now the strange spectacle, that
ID the Prussians who, at the outbreak NJ
q the war, declared by the mouth Of the
le King, that the war was directed solely
j. against the government, and not against
H. the people Of France, are now making
rs war for hs restoration Of his reJy SAM
nr government and against the French pco-
y pie
e, The cap,tuiotioH OF Nets, with the cir
Is cumstances that accO. panied il, have
N dissipated every doubt which could
a still exist in that respect. Restoration
re of Bonaparte and he destruction of Mc
al Republic is The political programme o.
$ Count Bismarck
q VIII he win thc game IL is 4 ques-
= ton Of power. n alI depends upon the
y determination of the tranrhmen and
Il the condition of th- German armies.
I The latter is. accrl .s ail reports, a
4 very unsatisiacta ouc. The "httle
z war" is most dr-trHctitu tD our forces
and diseases Ui alI kinds are rapidly
thinning their ranks. Daily 2,OO0-I
write ttco M0HsgHd-siuk ana wounded
n. German soldiers are being carried from
France into Germany. How many are
dying daily III France, and how many
are not in a state to allow Of their be-
ing transported-we do not know ex-
actly, but we know that the number Is
fearful. In fact the sacrifice Of human
life is so great that the war cannot be
N continued much longer, and II the
~ Frenchmen hold out long enough, the
/, Republic is saved and Count Bismarck
: and his system defeated.
One word about the French irregu-
4 lar troops, the FronctregrS, who are
L denied the right Of soldiers by any
y troops, and shot when taken-a pro
o ceeding approved Of BY most Of our
= respectable" papers. Ny patriotic
countrymen, Who consider il their s'na-
II tionaP' duty to ''eat Frenchmen" at
q breakfast, at dinner, at supper, and in
the "haelpe" Tavern, cannot under
!. stand that the Frenchmen have now
the same right and dnty TO fght AGAINST