The Glenwood post., 1914-11-21
GERMANY IS UNITED
First Time in History Its People
Have Fought as One.
In No prsvleve War Have the 1svtons
Prevented . oelld National Front
- rhslr Gnemiee-Nes Al Of
Them Are Fighting.

One of the most striking facts that
sets apart the present great war as
wholly unique, says the Washington
Star. 10 this: That in I'll the countless
wars wherein the different states that
comprise what ia known as Germany
have been engaged in the last ten or
fifteen centuries-and their number
runs well up into the hundreds-this
is the first time in the history of that
people that they have fought united
and entire.
Even in the last war in which the
German people were engaged, the
Franco-Prussian ar of 1870, not all
the Germans were involved. Austria,
one of the most powerful Of the Teu-
tonic countries, held aloof: indeed, she
was ready to fight, II ut all, against
the so-called north German confeder-
alton, as the combination q German
states was then called, after 6adowa
and before the formation Of tie pses-
ent German empire in 1871. In the
Austro-Prussian war Of 1866, four
years previous. the two dozen ~ more
German states were divided; In the
war over Schleswig- -Holstein, in 1864,
several Of the smaller German states
declined to take the par. Of Prussia.
and Austria against Denmark.
In the Napoleonic wars many Of the
German states, notably Bavaria and
Wurtemburg. were the allies of the
French until the last year of the en-
pire. Prussia herself was an ally, al
though an unwilling one, Of the great
French conqueror In the campaign of
1872 Against Russia, deserting with
her coatfngent Of 20,o00 under General
York just ~ soon n she heard of the
disaster to N&poleon's army tn the
Russian sn0ws.
And thruuehoat aE tie fighting that
for centuries before Napoleon vexed
the German country betweeD the Bal
kans sna tbs Rhine, never once did
they fght usiteA. The score o. more
of stztes always found their Interests
adverse and continually drew their
swords upon one another. EveA the
greak Frederiek Bsy1aroesa wss never
able to anite an the Teutons- Charlie
maeRe ha1 - better luck He found
the Germans hke cells in . basket Nc
sooner would he set hatch q the lit
tie kingdoms Or duchies safely slowed
Awsy inside the German empire than
he would be 6nd half . 1sze. Of them,
which he fondfy thought he had fast
ened in tight, had slipped ost mean.
time and made alliances With his enc
mics. And 70 has beea always, even
back to tie day when Armfnfus-Her.
mann, ~ they would call hin today
wiped out the legion of Roman varrus
and forever broke the hack Of the i'm
perial eity1 power north Of the Alps:
For many = yellow-haired, shaggy
German ON that day fought with bow
and spear side BY side With the Ho-
man Of the two-eAged sword.
Now, at length. aftef long centuries
Of civil aaA foreign wars, aftsr count
less combfnations and dissolutisas
and alliances and ruptures, but nsvef
. solid Teuton front. the Germans ara
fighting united. Not only afo they
are fighting. From the Iron Gates Of
fighting united, but all the Germans
from the Danube on the east to the
Rhine valley on the west, and from
the slopes Of the Alps to the shores Of
the Baltic sea, the ancient beandaries
OF the Teuton peoples. every man who