The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-19
|. ROBBERY BY INTERVENTION.
RevSOnS OF Treaties of Peace Have Caused VctorS In Re-
cent Wars to Suffer--NOtable Instances Outlined.

Wan invasion, but likewise driven back
the enemy across his borders and in
fiicted a most crushing defeat upon
King Milan at the battle of Slivinitza,
was stopped in his victorious advance
upon Belgrade within a days march of
the Servian capital by a peremptory
demand of the great powers, and was
compelled to evacuate Servian territory
without retaining any of the fruits OF
his victories. In the AuStro-PruSSion
war of 1866 Prince Bismarck, in spite
of the brilliant successes of the PruS-
sian forces and the disastrous defeat
of the AuStrianS at every point, was
compelled to submit to the intervention
of France, which, although the matter
is Intentionally ignored by most Ger
man historians, practically prevented
the capture and occupation of Vienna
by the Prussians, who were within less
than two days march OF the Austrian
capital when Emperor Napoleons en-
issaries arrived at the Prussian head
quarters.
The original demands madeaby Prus-
STA were considerably modified through
Frances threats TO secure by force ter
ritorial compensation if they were
maintained; and Austria, instead of
being compelled to surrender Venice
and the province of Venetia directly to
Italy, which had been Prussia's ally,
was permitted to avoid the humiliation
by transferring the so-called Jewel of
the Adriatic" to France, which in turn
made it over to King Victor Emmanuel.
There is no doubt that both Austria,
as we'll as the southern German states,
such as Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg,
ETC., benefited largely by Napoleon's in
PREVENTION, and that he in consequence
thereof relied on their cooperation
against Prussia in the war Of 1870. How
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lions, as well as in the hope of help
from Italy, which owed its existence
in It's present form so largely to him
and to France, is a matter of history.
Let me add that. Frances interven-
ton in 1866 was merely a sort of re-
venge for Prussia's threatened inter
vention in 1859, a menace which
brought the war between France and
Italy on the one side and Austria on
the other to premature close. The
Franco-Italian forces had inflicted the
most crushing defeat upon the Austri-
ans at Solferino and elsewhere, and
King Victor Emmanuel, as well as his
fellow Italian patriots, felt that they
were about to realize the dream of their
life, namely, the sweeping out of ex-
lstence all the petty sovereignties of
the peninsula, and the amalgamation
Italy. This would have inevitably TAX
en- place at that time had it not been
for the interference of Prussia, with
menaces of a demand for territorial
compensation or of marching to the
assistance of the Austrians. These
threats led to a hastily concluded
treaty of peace at Villafranca, whereby
Italy obtained nothing but Lombardy.
which she had already conquered pre-
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ance, but was obliged to abandon for
the nonce her prospects of obtaining
Rome, Tuscany, Parma and Modena.
An international. congress at Paris
likewise followed the Crimean war,
when the original conditions of peace
imposed by the allied powers upon
Russia underwent serious modifica-
tionS.
From this it will be seen that there
is plenty Of precedent for the action of
the great powers of continental
Europe in putting forward demand
to revise, nominally on the ground of
humanity, but in reality in behalf of
own interests, the conditions of peace
imposed upon Spain by the United
States They might possibly refrain
from any such action if America were
to remain content with the conquest of
take to restore the Philippines to
Spain after the payment of a war in
demnity. But any other project on the
part of the Washington government
with regard to the Philippines is GER
tain to lead to an attempt to subject
the American conditions of peace to re-
vision.
1t may be hoped that the United
States will resist any such pretensions
on ri of he
which are unlikely to receive any
support from Great Britain. None
of the great powers dared to make
demands of this kind upon victorious
Germany in III, and there is no
reason why the United States should be
subjected to any different treatment
since she occupies with regard to the
continental powers of Europe a far
more advantageous position zthan did
Germany at the close of the war with
France. Neither France nor Germany
nor Russia, still less Austria or Italy.
is in a position either singly or collect
lively to enforce any demand which
they may make upon the United States
in connection with the latters condi-
lions of peace, especially if Great Brit
ain continues, as Fat present, to sup
port the American cause.
England, with the United States and
possibly Japan, constitutes a combina-
ton quite powerful enough the resist
any concert of the continental powers
of Europe, and if the United States toll
crates intervention by the latter in any
form whatsoever it will be merely re-
peating the lamentable mistake made
at the close of the Chinese-Japanese
war by the mikado.
Ex-ATTACHE.
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