The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-11

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and never did they give Their hearts
10 Rome
A century after the head OF the
Hohenzollern family became elcctor
of BTandenbuTg, the TcHtonic knights
I'm 1911 elected the Margrave Albert.
Younger son of the Hohenzolern
family. to the post of grand master
OF the order True To the Instincts
OF his ancestors, as we'll as of his de.
GcendantS, the MarGrave Albert gave
the moribund knightly order its death
blow and constituted himself the
hereditary prince of Prussia The
iIalc limo of Albert soon died out and
the province of Prussia passed 10 the
elder Hohenzollern line OF tho clec-
tors of Brandenburg
When John Slgsmund, clector of
Brandenburg, espoused the cause OF
Professionalism, acquired new territory
IN Central GERMANY and united Bran
denburS and Prussia into a duchy, he
laid the broad foundations for the fu-
tTo greatness of his family. That
was In 1918 The storm Of the thir,
~ years war was even then about to
break. and during that long struggle
the Hohen2ollern duchy was moro
prominent as a sufferer than as an
active participant. The Elector Geo.
William, who died In 1910, left 10
MS successor a barren desert lnhab.
tied by a few miserable staryelIngs
who had in some manner escaped the
devastation of that terrible war. That
successor was Frederick William, who
ruled for forty-eIght years and who
is known in history as the Great
Elector.' He was the grandfather OF
modern Germany
The great elector established the
first standing army In Central Europe
He gained complete sovereignty over
Prussia and consolidated II with
BrandenburG and his other minor pos
sessions In a permanent union. He
forced the nelghboring states Of
France. Holland and Sweden to re.
spect his sovereignty and to regard
the boundaries of bis governmental
estate. When he died In 1865 lie left
to his son country having a million
and half people. great deal OF
treasure, and a standing army OF 3S.-
600 we'll drilled soldiers.
On January IS. 1901, the son of the
great elector assumed the kingly
crown as F'reedrick I. first King OF
Prussia He made few efforts to aid
TO the territory or prestige of his
crown. but his successor, Frederick
William |, acquired great wealth. pur.
chased much territory and added part
of Pomcranie to the kingdom. The
third King Of Prussia came to the
-,
usually called Frederick the Great.
He found a state of less than $4,000
square miles with a population OF two
and a half million, and when he died
forty-SiX years later, he left a Prus.
sia having $4,000 square miles and a
population OF nearly six million peo
pic. His conquests were continued by
his son Frederick William III, who
reigncd from 1856 10 1897, and who
brought Prussia up to an area of 100
00o miles and to population of moro
than nine million
Frederick William III came to the
throne In 1897 Nine years later his
Kingdom was laid waste by Napoleon.
end a half OF his territory and popu-
latlon was taken. After the fall of
The Napoleonic empire, the Congress
of. Vienna restored this loss and add
ell 10 Prussia part of SaxoDy. the
Rnlneland and Swedish Pomerania,
making Of Prussia two separate pieces
OF territory aggregating about 107,-
400 square miles.
In the latter years of The reign of
Frederick William H. who died In
1Sf0, and all during the reign Of Fred
crick William ", from 1870 to 1861,
the Prussian kingdom devoted Itself
TO the perfection of its army; the
training and education of its young
men, both for war ana work. and
aimed steadily and singly at gaining
the supremacy Of the German world
William | came to the throne as
King of Prussia In 1861. He had un-
der him Bismarck and Won Moltke.
In 1865 Prussia fought the victorious
seven weeks war with Austria; gain
eC complete supremacy among the
German states; absorbed Hanover.
Hesse. Nassau. Grankfort and Schles-
-Holstein formed the North Ger,
man Confederation; excluded Austria
from the Germania family council.
and made of the kingdom of Prussia
a. NpI lldNI hlult W lptstbp SQuhlb
Lilies having population OF 29,OO0,-
600 people.
Four years later Prussia defeated
France and destroyed the power OF
Napoleon III, and In 1871 William
assumed the imperial crown and he
came the first kaiser OF the modern
German empire, The present kaiser
was then twelve years old His IA
ther. Frederick III, succeeded the frst
emperor In 1888, but died after less
than three months reign, and William
III. whom God preserve. came to the
loyal throne OF Prussia the imperial
leadership of Germany ald the head
ship of the family of Hohenzollern.
This is the story of Prussia. 1t Is
q story of growth by conquest. and
II Is significant In view OF the fact
that Germans are fond of saying that
MS the nineteenth century witnessed
the Prussianlzing of Germany, so will
the twentieth century witness the
Gcrn19niZInP of Tho world