The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-05
The North German Press ON the
vienns Exposition.

Turning from the WarmtH unu 6Ao" - ~
special German correspondents on the open
ing of the Vienna Exposition-Berthold Auer-
bach and Louise Mihlbach-to our special
dispatches from Berlin we pass at once into q
cooler atmosphere. The extracts from the Ber-
lin papers which we published yesterday in the
German language are reproduced in English
to-day, and will be found especially valua-
BILE in pointing out how the Vienna
festival is regarded by those journals that speak
in the name Of the new German Empire, with
or without authority. The first noticeable
sentiment, and one which pervades all the
journals in question, is creditable, namely
a frank and hearty desire to evince an appre-
citation of the great Austrian victory of peace
The student Of European politics will natur-
ally look behind these first ebullitions of
friendiness for the traces of the old poisons
Of war and national distrust.
In the half-uttered word is sometimes found
greater significance than in the loudest and
longest sentences. Prussia, exultant in her
new glory, in her apparently invincible force,
can well spare word or two of gushing joy
over the Exposition brought to successful
opening by her whilom foe. That the throb
of common race should be felt in
this testimony to Austria's triumph in
presenting grand show of peace
is perfectly natural. and it is one
of the most hopeful signs of growing
esteem between the two peoples. Says the
National Zeiung, although merely repre-
sented In the Palace of Industry like other
nations, we yet feel ourselves the most pre-
ferred, the most welcome. The German
Ausrians did the greater share in this work. :"
The feeling that peace is secured between
Prussia and Austria is the next feature that
will attract attention. It does not matter how
the peace is pledged, SO the pledge is binding;
and whatever recollections of bitterness
on the one side or rude joy on the other the
pledge covers, humanity will accept the fact
with thankfulness. The precise expression of
this feeling towards Austria is seen in what
the National Zeihlng says thereon:-"No mat
ter what may have been the divisions caused
by political barriers, Germany and Austria
will come out of the Industrial Palace as they
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day Of triumph for German intellect and
industry. Without envy we look upon this
success of our brethren in Austria, and joy
fully bear testimony to such an Incompatible
triumph"
Around this point the Berlin journals futter
prettily, as if fearing to alight on very deli
cate spot Says the Berginer Tribune eve re-
joice that the necessary explanation of 1866 has
left no more serious imprints. Germany de-
sired unity. Either Austria or Prussia had,
of necessity, to take the leadership. Sue
cess decided, after short campaign, in favor
of Prussia, and Austria may feel contented
that her development is no longer impeded
by German interference To describe
the swift, Short but bloody war Of
1866, as necessary explanation is very
gentle way Of putting the matter indeed. Men
who have been wounded can look with COM
placency upon their scars in after years, and
Austria, with her busy millions and her great
Exposition, with her energies more centralized
and better directed than ever within the past
century, may be able to smile at Sadowa as
pleasantly as the viennese greeted the Imperial
German Crown Prince, Frederick William, the
other day.
All these neat qualifications of the hearty
congratulations from Berlin to Vienna show
that in reading them we are out Of the
region Of enthusiasm. The North Ger
man is easy and gracious, because the
Austrian, in spite Of past misfortunes,
is prosperous and joyous, and because,
above ALL she can do no harm. Let
Austria accept the congratulations as the best
things that Prussia could possibly say of her,
and go on encouraged in the career
she has marked out for herself. She
has no troublesome italian subjects to
cause her uneasiness /; her heterogeneous
empire is as closely united as it can be
under the present rule. Hungary is quiet,
she protests, the strong-armed German sur
geon, who trepanned her in 1866, has let out
all the ambitious humors that troubled her
brain so long, she will be happy even if the
aspiration to be mighty has departed
When the Berlin papers come to the discus
sion of the general good derivable from uni
versal expositions, as we might expect, they
are philosophical. They recall the history OF
these Worlds Fairs, and point to the
auspices, bright or gloomy, under which
they were inaugurated and held The
stress laidupon the bloody times that followed
the Paris Exposition Of 1867 is intended to
convey the idea that to the actual preservation
of peaceful relations between nations EXPOSE
tons are not very extraordinary helps. Their
satisfaction in viewing the work of Francis
Joseph by the Danube to-day is chiefly derived
from the thought that its tendency, however
faint, is towards the fratenizing of the
Powers, and that, in any case, there is no
danger of war. There is a peculiar COM
placency in this thought for all true Prussians