Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-06
KINGS MAY LOSE:
CROWNS As RESULT
OF EUROPEAN WAR
Napoleon Predicted That COnti-
nent Would BE "COssack" or
Republican in 100 Years
Limit at End.

A hundred and some odd years ago
Napoleon Bonararte, the second Julius
Caesar Corslcan by birth and a no.
body by ancestry, forced his rule upon
France, willingly bowling her neck to his
sovereignty, welcome because full Of
military glory to her but no less well
come because il was relief from the
dcspotic tyranny of her own Rourbons
But when Napoleon usurped the
sovereignty of Naples and put first his
brother Joseph upon It's throne and
then his sister Caroline and Murat,
when Joseph was made King Of Spain
and Louis king of Holland. the SOW
oreigns Of Europe, among thom the great
powers of Russia, Austria, England and
Prussia, all felt their thrones lettering
beneath them, and with mighty armies
combined they crushed him.
Looking back upon the ruins of his
once Overwhelmingly splendid dominion
and seeing his enemies returned once
more to their absolute rule, Bonaparte
yet had the vision Of the seer in looking
into the future, and he said:
"Tn hundred years Europe will be
either all Cossack or all republican"
Is that day dawning upon us, now that
the span of a hundred years has passed ?
The people of the fair United States,
dwelling in peace and security under the
folds of flag Of constitutional in
dependence unsullied by the divine
right of kings" strain aghast eyes
across the seas whore their brothers,
endowed by the same God Of Love with
immortal souls painting for liberty and
the right to pursue happiness, are being
over the precipice Of that war which is
hcll--thc he'll of barharic savagerY. of
fury and madness of battle and
slaughter-tho hell of militarism, autoc-
racy and the divine right Of kings"
But in the spectacle Of things so
ferocious that our minds cannot imagine
them, and SO full of woes that our hearts
cannot count them. can we not see the
cataclysm of the struggling forces of a
new hope. the pangs of travail in the
birth of a new government which shall
be for men, and not for kings7
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
The despots victorious over Napoleon l.
met in congress in Vienna In September
1914 to divide the spells of the war among
them. The Emperors of Austria and
Russia. the Kings of Prussia, Denmark
Bavaria and Wurtenberg came in person
to see that they got the lions share
The Pope was represented by Carolina
Consalve.
England by the Duke of Wellington
Lord Castlereagh and Lord Cathcart
Lord Clancarty and Lord Stuart.
The Bourbons. again ruling and despoil
ing France had an envoy In Taleyrand
Ambassadors from Spain. Portugal ant
Sweden came to get what they could fol
their kings
Prince Metternich. the Incarnation o.
Austrian dcspotism," presided at the Ions
deliberations OF this congress- whose his
tory is one of cOmpacts so worthless, 81
wicked so utterly subversive Of the rights
of humanity that their equal cannot 81
found in the annals of mankind.
BY the treaty OF Vienna Austrian des
potism was most largely rewarded Of al
the nations receiving vast concessions
The constitutional Kingdoms Of Italy wer
annhilated and the woe-stricken Italians
bound hand and foot, were surrendered
again to their masters, Austria receivini
Venice, Lombardy, Tuscany MOdena
Parma and various smaller States Tn
repose of the slave plantation was sprea'
over Europe again. and kings looked
backward for their ideas Of rule.
PARTITIONING OF POLAND.
1t was to be again the return of tn
day of the divine right of kings" tn
right by which Frederick the Grea
of Prussia Maria Theresa of Austri
and Catherine the Great Of Russia fel
upon Poland with the voracious ap
petite wolves and devoured her, i'm
posing, each conqueror upon his partic
ular share and by the iron hand OF tn
soldier, the religion and the Language
most hateful to proud. despairng hearts
humbled in the dust of the conquered,
1t was TO be the return Of the dal
when a king could sell his friendship
and his army to another king for none!
TO be used In crushing constitutions
freedom-likc the King of Poland did t,
England-30cGO men FOR three-quarters o
a million dollars. Ike the Hanoverini
prince Of the eighteenth century did L
'he seigniority Of Venice lie wac
Jolly prince, fond of n good dinner an,
bottle of wine, and ne made merr
jest as he sold 500 Of his best soldier
to march off to the Morea And ne mad
merry Jest when only l,4Oo of then
came home again. 1t was goodl
remnant Of cattle. with their value niue
enhanced by experience in war, whic
the prince could sell again at highe
price.
And 1t was to be again the time a
il was when another prince, the SOW
ereign Of Hesse sold his gallant sol
dicrs as food for George HIS canno
on the American battleficlds. takn
the blood-stained gold to buy house
and lands and women ana wine, the foo
of ambition and appetite. while mother,
daughters and sweethearts and helples
children by the thousand We're left stary
ing and desolatc
Men ana women and vast stretches {
land were to be tossed back and fort
and their mistresses, Ike Canada in IN
days when It was called New France.
with governors going out as rcluctar
eXies longing to return 10 the delight
of Versailles, and so distasteful a posses
sion to Louis XIV that after MontCalm
defeat La Pompadour threw 1t into En-
lands lap. that the King may have
chance to sleep In peace"
Tho sovcroigns entering into the sham,
less compact of Vienna had inherited b
intermarriage and bequest the soldarlt
Of sovereignty, which was a Europe
royal connections from Hungary
Spain, from Scotland to Sicily, maxim
It possible for almost any prince or an
princess of their houses to succeed TO
throne, however remote and foreign WEI
the peoples to be ruled
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