Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-06-28
DECENTRALIZATION OF EUROPE
Trend Of the Various Nations Is
Toward the Most Power
full Empire.

The North German race is possessed
of a mania; it is in the grasp Of one abb
sorbing idea. Deutschland ueber
Allies" says the motto. In these days
that means the commercial supremacy
and dominance OF Germany around the
world, says the Cosmopolitan.
For instance, all Europe knows that
the death of Emperor Franz Joseph
will be the signal for the breaking UP
of Austria, the last remnant of old
Rome, the eastern empire Of the two
sons of Constantine. Even now the
fabric is loose; nothing holds to-
gether the irreconcilable Magyars.
Czechs, Slavs, and the rest but the
popular affection for the emperor and
popular commiseration for his mis-.
fortunes. He has no direct successor;
the heir-apparent is not liked, and
upon the advent of the new ruler trou-
BILE is scheduled. The H%ungarians havt
fixed their hearts upon independence,
and will have nothing else. With the
removal of that keystone the arch falls,
inevitably, and from the fragments the
North Germans expect to gather at
once Bohemia, Austria proper, and
the Tyrol.
And why? These countries must go
somewhere; they cannot drift on
alone. The trend of progress is wholly
against small nations, wholly accre-
tive, and solidifying. Except Bohemia,
the countries here involved are nat
urally German; therefore their inev-
table place is in the German empire.
Moreover, close about the borders
of Germany are other states essen
TALLY German in population ant
thought. Holland. for instance. Tht
law of evolution is the development
of what is necessary for the surviva
of the stronger organism. HOLLAND
has magnificent seaports adjacent tt
the Atlantic, and Germany needs them
Holland is almost German now; II
time, then, manifest destiny will dray
II into the confederation.
10 North Germans see plainly the fu
lie ture of Switzerland as a province /
Id the coming German empire. Some pei
g sons, knowing well the temper of tn
er Swiss people, believe that first 1t wi
1e be necessary to depopulate the cour
III try; but the German answer to tn
0 I is the natural force Of developmeI
"a. which is drawing the nations togeth'
Is as surely as it is indicating the don
hc nance of the most resolute and hard
And what will the rest of Eurol
,e be doing while thus the new Germs
empire is being formed? There a
the balance of power, and the E
" ropean concert, and all the rest of
the Dreibund and the Zweibund, and
nu the entente cordiale, and what OF
these?
pa According to the German idea
things the rest OF Europe will ha
an no more to say about the forming
the new than it has had to say abb
the forming of the present Germ
jus empire. II Austria shall conclude
laii ioin the Great German confederate
that will be nobody's business. If H
zen land determines to follow the exa
tne ple Of Bavaria, of what concern Y
mes that be to the rest Of the world?
body interfered when Bavaria came
'eil' II Denmark be induced to give vi
ugn precarious and costly independence
ne a place in the German procession, Y
and shall deny her the right? Sooner
a later, according to the imperiali
tne idea, the roller is to go over all
you smaller nations; they are doomed
you obli.eration, anyway, like 81
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