The Washington herald., 1914-08-16

in the face Of men. the elements, relig-
ion. earth, and heaven. or he would sink
under the combined weight of their
enmity. One Of his ministers shook his
head and sighed, The Emperor is mad.
completely mad. and will destroy US all.
This will all end in a terrible crash
Still the reasons for the war we're not
by any means wholly occult Napoleon
had been trying for nearly a decade to
conquer the power OF England on the sea
by closing against her trade the harbors
OF Europe. L one remained open none
would remain closed. II Russia were per
mitted to break the blockade. no other
nation could be asked to maintain it, and
IL would be only matter of months un-
til the Gar would be able to form a new
coalition against France.
The invasion of Russia unCuestionablv
was a disastrous mistake, a poor choice
of battlefields. But Napoleon hoped
against hope that as he moved toward
the Russian border Alexander would sue
for peace as he sued for Il at Tilsit Eve
years before He was mistaken in his
man and therein lay the fatal blunder.
Moreover, two inveterate enemies OF
Napoleon had entered the counseIs Of
the Gar and were industriouslv strength
ening his arm against the French EN-
peror. They were Stein. the Prussian
cabinet minister, whom the Emperor had
ordered the King Of Prussia to dismiss.
and that CoTsiCan rival of Napolcon's
youth. PozZo di Borgo.
Napoleon and Pozzo left Ataccio to-
Eether, the one to conquer Europe. the
other to wander from capital to capital
in his bitter. unceasing efforts to thwart
him. For twenty years the two islanders
carried on their relentless vendetta. with
a continent for their battles ground. PoZZo
was at the elbow Of the British ministry
when the peace Of Amiens was broken
and the twelve-year duel beteen England
and France began. Next he went to Rus
sla- and was with the Gar in the years
he was warning on Napoleon. But Ma
l.l L IL gT.Fs
and he passed over to Austria where he
fomented the-war Of 1909 He fed from
Vienna with the Austrian court as the
Emperor bore down upon that capital.
and after his enemy's victory at Wagram
he escaped him only by tramping over
the mountains to Turkey. whence he
found his way to England once more.
and finally to St. Petersburg. Thence
forth he dogKed the downward steps OF
his fellow-Corsican to Waterloo and even
to St Helena
Two Worlds I'm Arms.
A great war somewhere was inevitable
to establish or overthrow the continental
system which rested on bayonets and
which had enbroiled the world. For 1sl2
proved to be red year in history. The
flames of me French revolution, which
were kindled at the Bastile in l7Ss. had
been spreading for twenty-three years.
At last they had IeapedAthS wide Atlantic
and two worlds were raped in an almost
universal confia grafton.
The Americans and the British took up
arhns. and the Indian with his tOmahawk
Joined in the strife. Already Hidalgo had
rung from his village church belfry the
tocsin Of revolution that was heard from
the Oregon to Terra del Fuego, and
Spanish America, taking advantage OF
the war in Spain. began its ten-year
struggle for Independence. The Spaniards
and their English allies under yelling
ton. after four years Of battling on the
Peninsula continued to baffie the best
marshals Of the empire, and an imperial
army OF SoaOo0 men were engaged in a
futile effort to subdue one extremity OF
Europe while Napoleon was leading eO0001
more to conquer the opposite extremity
of the continent
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