The Irish standard., 1906-01-13

MERGE and Labor, WaShington. 4
atholic Associated Press) :.
4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
this was to react in an unforeseen way
The genius Of Stein, like that of most
great statesmen, was constructive
Banished, he betook himself to Austria
where he organized opposition, kind
ling, as Mcneil well says, "the glowing
embers of Austrian discomfort into a
fame" Russia allied to France wanted
Walachia and Moldavia, with these
she saw her way clear to CONSTANT
nople and the possession Of Turkey,
possibly a large part of the Balkans.
To placate the Corsican, she would
bide his taking and holding Bohemia,
after Hungary the brightest and high
est priced and priced jewel in the Aus
trian crown.
STEMS success was phenomenal, far
reaching. Napoleon never knew it,
but it was the beginning of the end,
it was the beginning of work that was
to land the implacable Butcher at
Waterloo at the psychological moment
in the Corsicans life that God had
fixed for his destruction. This much
by way Of beginning. In all this we
have the foundations Of the vast,
world-embracing empire to which the
world gives the name Germany, the
German Deutschland. But bigger than
all this is the imperial influence to
which the name German influence is
applicable. That empire is of Father
Jahn's foundation. 1t is the empire Of
the mind, Of the Turnerverein, the in
dustrial, industrial art schools, the
Real and other gymnasiums, the great
universities Of Heidelberg, Gottingen,
Jena, Bohn and Berlin, particularly
Berlin. 1t is the empire Of Humboldt
and Helmholtz, the Grimms and
Goethes, the Schillers and Schegels.
The beginnings, like the beginnings Of
all mighty structures, whether Of the
physical or of the moral world, are
to be sought, If they are to be found,
far back in the hills. in the mountain
recesses.
To get a good idea of what the Ger
man school master has done, = must
ask my readers to retrace the steps of
their own lives, If old enough, to 1870
II. For the benefit of the rising gen.
GRAFTON Of readers, I wish to recall the
fact that before that time, notwith-
standing the Schleswig- Holstein war
and its successful issue in favor of
Prussia, Notwithstanding sc and Sc
dova, the mightiest force among men
was France. We thought our civiliza-
ton was English, but we bowed to
France. Her literature, her licenses.
called liberty, her brilliant society, led
us all captive. The German before 10,
in the East and West, North and
South of these United States was a
"Dutchman," despised, sneered at and
condemned. None Of us wanted him
to win in the war with France. None
of us thought he would win. The
world was surprised when the war
took turn in Germany's favor. Ma
poleon's boast that he would be in
Berlin in six weeks was believed be-
cause based upon what was to happen
by every man who read it as well as
by every man who heard it. Indeed,
the only men who had good reason to
doubt it were the men who heard it.
He never crossed the Rhine. Napo-
Icons legions never saw Berlin except
as captives. The pupils Of Father jain
had kept their word. Catching the
sublime faith Of their teacher, they
beat down the imperial eagles at
Worth, weissenbourg,
Bitch, Saarbrucken, Nancy, Sedan and
Paris. They lugged back the Quad
riga and put it where it is likely to
stay. on the Brandenburg gate, in the
Berlin that is taking the place of Paris
and Vienna among European cities.
Before we go back to Berlin and Eu-
rope want the American reader,
young and old, to go with me to the
Exposition Of 1875. In It
Germany is represented. Rouleaw
Prussian with a French name, posi-
bly, one Of those old Huguenot French
men that did so much to build up Eng
land and Germany and to destroy
France, is Germany's chief commits
sioner. While other commissioners
are being feted and are entertaining,
this man is digging, delving, studying,
comparing. He went through the Eng
fish, French, Austrian, American ex-
hibits, comparing them with those of
Germany. His verdict was a revela-
ton, it produced a revolution.
"Schlecht und Billig" was what he re-
ported to Berlin, Cheap and Nasty"
was the word used by him to charac-
terize German products. That was
1876. In 1893, less than twenty years
later, Germany led the world at Chi
cago, as she did Paris in 1900, as she
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