The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-08-16
GERMANIZATION OF EUROPE
Trend of the Various Nations Is
Toward the Most Power
full Empire.

The North German race is possessed
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 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-
hle is scheduled. The Hungarians have
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
Noib oNi hiduD CApCtI W EdlutI dI
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 so~lidifying. Except Bohemia,
the countries here involved are nat
urally German; therefore their inev-
liable place is in the German empire.
Moreover. close about the borders
of Germany are other states essen
tally German in population and
thought. Holland. for instance. The
law of evolution is the development
of what is necessary for the survival
of The stronger organism. Holland
has magnificent seaports adjacent to
the Atlantic, AMI Germany needs them;
Holland is almost German now; in
time. then, manifest destiny will draw
it into the confederation.
North Germans see plainly the flu
ture of Switzerland as a province in
the coming German empire. Some per-
sons, knowing well the temper of the
Swiss people, believe that first it will
be necessary to depopulate the u
try; but the German answer TO this
is the natural force of development
which is drawing the nations together
as surely as it is indicating the DOM
nance of the most resolute n hardy.
And what will the rest of Europe
be doing while thus the new German
empire Is being formed? There are
the balance Of power, and the Eu-
ropean concert, and all the rest of IL;
the Dreibund and the Zweibund, and
the entente ~cordiale, and what of all
these?
According TO the German idea Of
things the rest of Europe will have
no more 10 say about the forming of
the new than il has had TO say about
the forming of the present German
empire. IL Austria shall conclude TO
join the Great German confederation,
that will be ~nobody's business. II Hol-
land determines to follow the exam
pie of Bavaria, of what concern will
that be TO the rest of the world? No
body interfered when Bavaria came in.
If Denmark be induced 10 give up a
precarious and costly independence fol-
a place in the German procession, Who
SHAH deny her the right? s.-ner OF
later. according 10 the imp1 ~ialistic
idea, the roller is to go oye- all the
smaller nations; they are dc1>led TO
obliteration, anyway. liko small
tradesmen before the department fore,
or small manufacturers before z aust.