, 1873-07-30

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every Prussian soldier carries a bag in his
knapsack and brought it home filled with
clocks. But behind this public opinion
OF society and newspapers, which jIbes at
Prussia and cOldly insults us in every way,
there is a graVer public opinion which, in
time, must command the other. To that
we have made an appeal which will stand
US we'll should there be, as is now whis-
pered, an alliance between France and
England is The reply England will make
to the meeting of the Empcrors Russia
and Prussia and Austria came to an agreed
m. MT on the Eastern question-an agree
ment that can never be friendly to Eng
land's plans, and especially her designs
upon Egypt. So England makes over
lures to France, for France, crippled as
she is, has even now the second best
army in Europe and amazing resources,
and England always finds other men to be
killed for her own in battles. English
yalor as we Germans understand it, means
subsidies. This alliance was Palmerston's
way for settling the Eastern question, and
we expect to see England in such an al
lance sooner or later. But it cannot last,
any more than the old alliances between
England and Austria could last in George
the Seconds time, when he was elector of
Hanover. The people will never consent
to any alliance with a Catholic Power
against a Protestant Power. And in that
l see the great victory of Prince Bismark
over French-tinted public opinion.
"The Reichsgebiet of AIsace-Lorraine
IS one of tho most vov0+io1c bD+ ,O+
among our greatest troublcS. We mean
to do we'll with AlSace and Lorraine but
we have not had a chance. Prussian dis
clpIlne is strict, but kindly, and we would
gladly accept the new proyincjals as
brothers and treat them with the fattest
kind Of latted calves. But how can we?
Every Prussian is insulted. The women
hide behind their sex to torment us, as they
did with Butler when he commanded in
New Orleans. We have not been as Sc
we're as Butler, perhaps, if all that is said
OF hIm IS true but we mean to be.
GLOW can you conciIiatc people who
will not even talk German? Go ma shop
IN Metz or StraSbourg and ask a question
IN German, and the attendants will stare
at you as though you were talking Chinese.
And they all talk German. AIsace and
Lorraine were German until Louis the
XIV stole them from the old Reich. We
took them France lost them in a wal Of
her own provocation. They are ours by
solemn treaty and we mean to hold them.
Prussia will exhaust the resources Of her
Empire to defend and hold these provinces,
just as she did to hold Schlesien. Old
Fritz fought seven years to hold SchIesien.
and the young Fritz viii fight seven years
for AIsace and Lorraine. The old Fritz
had Russia, Austria and France against
him. The young man will be u%nlucky if
he has more than France and, perhaps,
Denmark.
"We want no more war. The Kaiser
IS an old man-seventy-six last March
and cares for no more war. He is a kind
ly old man and don't fancy it. Then we
have lost enough. Great God only think
of it, there are $4,000 Germans, my
friends and brothers and countrymen,
sleeping under the fields of France! Is
that not a price to pay9 Can Germany
wish to repeat the sacrifices of the war
We did not seek it. The Kaiser shed
tears when he gave the order for the mobi-
lIzatlon OF the army. We shrank from it
then, we shrink now. Yet, if we cared
to conciliate France, we could not. She
has made concession and cancellation i'm
possible. Compromise with France now