Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13

! SLAMS and Austrians together fought Den
mark. and conquered Schleswig-H olstein
and a portion of Jutland. Bismarck IN
| tended to annex the territory to Prussia.
| Austria intended to keep it neutral. Inc
| Joint occupation of the territory by Prus-
! sian and Austrian troops made inevitable
! the quarrel which Bismarck was dellber-
| atelv fostering and which was necessary
| for the working out of his schemes E'ariE
! in 1865 the Prussians politely but nrmiH
| forced the Austrian garrison out OF Hoi-
| stein.
| Austria appealed to the ghostly diet of
| the confederation, sitting at Frankfort,
| to use the cOnfederated army against
| Prussia. June II the Austrian motion
was carried by the diet. an action wnich
proved to be it's last, for the next day
Prussia wrecked the confederation by
| declaring war against three of it's states
| Hanover. Hesse and Saxony. There was
| no formal declaration of war agalnSI
| Austria, the Prussians simply notifying
| the Austrian commanders to get ready
| for fight.
| Bismarck already had concluded Sc
! cret treaty with Italy. June IL the Aus
| trian emperor published manifesto OF
| war; the next day the Prussian king is
! sued an address to his people. and two
DAYS later Italy declared war against
Bavaria and Austria Thus was begun
| the seven weeks war, which was decided
| at SaQOWa WGeH the W
| terly defeated the -Austfians. Prussia
was prepared: Austria was not Prus-
| STA was organized: Austria was not
Austria renowned its claims in Hol-
stein. acknowledged the final dissolution
of the German confederation and bound
| itself to modification of the meaning
| of the word Germany, by which Austria
was excluded. 1t also recognized the
creation of the North German confedera-
ton Prussia thereupon announced that
| SchiaSu-iV- HOISt the
free city of FRANKFORT. the kingdom of
Hanover. the electorate of Hesse and
the duchy of Nassau to the dominions
of the Prussian kingdom. Saxony. the
| towns, Gutenberg, Brunswick and the
| Thuringian states joined with Prussia
in the North German confederation.
| Added to all this the southern states of
Bavaria, Baden and Wurttemberg al
though not in the northern confedera ton.
| agreed to place their whole military
| force at the disposal of Prussia in case
of war. Prussia in turn guaranteeing
| their sovereignty.
The success of the Prussian program
greatly alarmed Napoleon III, then
dreaming dreams of a greater French
empire. Napoleon attempted to get con-
| troll of the grand duchy OF Luxembourg.
and thereby incurred the enmity of the
| Germans In this act Napoleon did more
to cause the south Germans to consent
to the Prussian leadership than Bismarck
ever could have done. In 1870 the Span
! ish cortes invited an obscure prince of
| the house of Hohenzollern to take the
Spanish throne. This was construed by
| the French blow to their dignity
and as in derogation of their interests.
Napoleon sent his ambassador to Ems
! to see King William. The king granted
him a cour-
Bismarck Prepares Way teous inter
to Strike at France. m n.ro, e ed
tied the newspaper account of the
meeting. so that it appeared that the
/ Prussian king had insulted the French
| ambassador. The telegram with its
Bismarckian eisions and lamentations
| went out to the world. and in day
! all France was on fire with furious
hatred for the Prussians. Bismarck was
| ready for war with France. He had
/ been ractically ready for a decade every
detail of the war plan had been finally
| determined for more than two years.
France was not ready, but France de-
! cared war
| The terrible efficiency of the Prussian
military machine again was demonstrated
and within a few months France lay
| PROSTATE under the heel of the Prussian
| invader. The absolute supremacy u
! Prussia in German affairs not ques-
| toned in any quarter after the victory
| over France. and it was but mere mat
ter of Formally to unite the several states
into an empire. The King of Bavaria
proposed to the other German princes
! that the German states form with PruS-
STA a new German empire, under a con-
stitution, the presidentship of the con-
| federation to be hereditary right of
the King of Prussia January IS, 1871,
| King William l of Prussia in the mir
rored gallery of the palace of Versailles.
formally assumed the imperial dignity
with the title "Deutscher Kaiser"
| Bismarck had cemented the German
states into German nation and had
| founded a new German empire based
upon the solid foundation of the German
nationality, and not upon the ghostly
| inheritance Of the Roman Caesars.
| X-The Tariff as Factor.