Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-16
ALSACE- LORRAINE
VIII Never be Surrendered by Germany With
out Another Bloody War.
SAN ANGELO, TEX. Sept. IL, 1890.

VIII Never be Surrendered by Germany With
out Another Bloody War.
SAN ANGELO, TEX, Sept. II, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
In the Dallas News of the 9th inst. we
notice rather curious editorial COM
menting upon the predicted wise act of
the German emperor to return the prov
inces of Alsaoe and Lorraine to France
with the approval of Bismarck. 1t is
almost too ridiculous to deserve COM
ment, but for the sake OF the sage who
wrote that article we W IL say that these
countries are German lands since the
Third century, when the then Celtic pop
ulation was conquered by German tribes
who settled the country. Though at va
rious times, I'll Ter Frankish rulers, 1t
was restored to Germany in 924 under
Henry the Fowler, and remained in her
undisputed possession till at the close
of the Seventeenth century it
was again seized by France,
and when France, after the Franco
German war, restored these rich Ger
man provinces to the Fatherland it but
returned what it had wrongfully kept.
The people in Alsace and Lorraine are
Germans. They speak the German
language according to Borck there are
hardly 100 900 out of the whole popula-
ton who DO not speak it). They live by
German customs in German towns and
villages bearing German names. The
most strenuous efforts of France to
Gallicize these provinces have utterly
failed. Even the noted university of
Strassburg has renamed German under
the French regime.
The writer of the article in question
says that such restoration will insure
an everlasting peace to both countries.
Such an assertion Is simply ridiculous in
in the face of the fact that one of the
most bloody wars was fought between
France and Germany at time when
those provinces were held by France.
Everybody knows the history of the late
Franco German war and its cause, "the
jealousy of France, the eunion of
Germany and its then fast growing
superiority in European politics. This
cause has not been removed.
The mountains of Alsace and Lorraine
are the strongest protection Germany
can wish to possess against French inva-
sion and never willingly will she give it
up and sacrifice her brethren to the
ETeQCQ Iul6. stTUuRcsb lOElEcsscS
protecting the western and most threat
ened frontier are located in these coun-
tries, Metz, Strassburg and many others.
Only long and bloody siege wrested
Strassburg from France during the late
war. The most bloody battles were
fought at Diedenhofen (Vionville) Worth,
weissenburg and others, aud it took a
whole army of several hundred thousand
of the very best trained soldiers many
months to subject Metz. After the fall
of Alsace and Lorraine the war was prac-
tically decided. Since then millions of
dollars have been spent to fortify these
places, and Metz is now considered to be
Turning over her almost
in vincible frontier to France, Germany
throws open her doors to new invasions.
Outside of this the writer OF the ar
ticle In question seems to think that the
young emperor can barter German lands
and German people as he buys pair of
shoes. He may rest assured, that
neither prince nor emperor can trade
in such valuable articles.
As to the recent Heligoland affair 1t IL
hardly necessary to say that the island is
a German country, the loss of which has
been long mourned by the Fatherland.
L.