The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-30
WHEN THE HOLY 5ALLINACE
 SOUGHT TO SUPPRESS
 THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY

One century ago, less one year-on Sept. 26, 1S15-there was matched from the egg of despotism one of the most devehsh and evil conspiracfes ev- CT directed against liberty, democracy and free institutions. Borrowing the cloak of religion to serve the devil in, the conspirators christened their rob- Der band t.the Holy Alliance. D
 VoItaire said that the Holy Roman Empire was corr ectly described, ex- cept that it was not holy, not Roman. and not an empire. No such criticism could be made of the Holy Alliance. It was an alliance, and a powerful one And it wae holy, if holiness consists in the sthrottHng of freedom, the sup pr essing of liberty, the perpetuation. of privilege, despotism and the divine right Of kings and the subjugation of the masses to slavery and the ele- vation of the bIue-blooded few to ab- soIute5 power. From the democratic viewpoint, however, it was an unho1y alliance of altar and throne. dedicated to loot, robbery and tyranny.
 Democracy in Europe had been crushed by Napoleon, and imperialism in turn had tumbled into ruins. Then the triumphant powers turned their attention to the reorganization of Eur ope, and held at Vienna "a market of mank kind' where the spoi1s of war were divided with brutal indifference to the wishes of the people. The. next step was to crush utterly all those glorious sentiments of liberty, frater- nity and equality, which, despite the excesses of some Of the revolution ists. had promised so much for hu- nnanity.
 Prussia. Austria. and Russia Joined in the task of the restoration of the old regime, and to effect their purpose they organized the Holy Alliance. This combination was to be hrstof all, ttthe policemen of Europe,,' and to wage unceasing war against democratic ideas. Te effect this purpose the white terror was fnaugurated, and every friend of freedom was bounded to death or exile, so far as 1t was in the power of the Alliance to accom- plish. History, still Bourbon. shud- ders and holds up it's hand in holy horror at the awful crimes of the revolution, and finds no epithets too harsh to apply to the fred terror" be- cause, forsooth, it included the royalty and nobility among. it's victims; but that later slaughter of democrats by the direction of kings. the white ter ror, it disnisses with a few words
 It is to the eternal glory of Great Britain that it held a1oof from the ty- rannica1 schemes of the continental monarchs. In Germany and Russia the program of the Holy Alliance, which included the extension of the
 
 only with eulogy, but III England the s.principIes'' of the alliance wers un- compromisingly condemned by most of her foremost statesmen. The de- signs of the alliance against the Span ish American countries then at the beginning of the wars for freedom from Spain, very very evident, and led to the formulation Of the Monroe Doc Urine. The protests of the infant American republic must have been futile. however, except for the attitude Of England, sso determinedly express ed by her Foreign Secretary George Canning. The Holy Alliance, in plan- ming for the conquest Of the New World, had taken for granted the op- position of the United States, and had dismissed it as of mo account; but the attitude of England was another mat. ter, and, coupled with internal trou- bles. it forced the "holy'' allies to abandon their scheme for the loot of Latin-America
 It was on Sept. 26, 1915, that the treaty of the Holy Alliance was signed by Car Alexander of Russia. Emper- or Francis of Austria and Frederick William III of Prussia. They signed the document with their own hands This treaty deserves to rank as the most hypocriticaI ever written The monarchs, such by divine right de- clared fin the face of the universe, their unalterable determination to take as their rule of conduct, both in the administration of their respective states and in their political relation with every other government, only the precepts of the Christian religion, pre- cepts of justice charity and peace''
 They determined to- regard | each other as t'brethren, 7, to display to one another an unalterable good will, and to consider themselves as dele gated by Providence to govern three branches of one and the same family, to wit, Austria, Prussia and Russia which were to form one Christian na- ton.
 This declaration is interesting in view of the ruptured relations be- tween the Brethren" two of whom now brand the other as a 'sbarbarian'' and a menace to civilization and cuI- ture."
 But if Russia is now a ssmenaee,, it was. a century ago, "ona Christian na- tfon" with Austria and Prussia, which. had for their sovereign Him to Whom alone power belongs as His possession, because in Him are found all the treasures of love, of know1- edge, and of infinite wisdom
 In accordance with sfthe precepts the brethren of Prussia, Russia and Austria, the divinely appointed sov- ereigns of the houses of HohenzoI- Tern, Ronanoff and Hapsburg, decided that the rulers of constitutional coun- tries could not belong to the Holy Alliance, which was entirely to tthoIy'' l to risk contamination by anything so democratic and un-Christian as con- kstitution.
 Thus with pious piatitudes was com pIeted the most self-seeking and greedy compact of modern times. Thus the annointed ones, the rulers I by divine right proposed to slay democrats for the glory of God: loot