El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-19

and Louis king OF Holland the sors--
eigns OF Europe among them +be r--s.+
I powers OF Russia, Austria, EnelaDJ -
Prussia, all 1elt their thrones fotter-
| ing beneath them, and with ,-j-t--
I armies combined they crusbe5 ,-i--7ii''
Looking back upon the ruins ~ HE
once OVERWHELMINGLY splendid dor,7i,5.,.
and seeing his enemies refu---3j ~
more 10 lhelr absolute rule, Bonaparfe
I yet had the vision of the seer in iC,,tc-
ing into the future, and he es IA
In hundred years Eurobs lin ~.
/ either all Cossack or all republicsD %
Is that day dawning upo1 - al
| passed? iia'S
The people Of the fair Units5 St.
dwelling in peace and securit,- ,-1,-l.,,
| the folds Of a flag Of consfft,,ttt4--..--1
! Independence unsullied by the 49,
( right Of kings strain agbast 49,
| across the seas where their brothers
I endowed by the same God of 90 ,-f -
] immortal souls painting for Iibert,- 80
l the right 10 pursue happiness az -
| ing driven by the millions to the -
| and over the precipice of tho -,
J which is hell-the hell Of barbsTi(, -. =, 81
! agery, Of fury and madness. of 6e+ri,
Z and slaughter-the hell of niIi+s,is---S
( kings" u
But in the spectacle Of things so f.
roclous that our minds cannot imagine
| them. and so full of woes thar orr
I hearts cannot count them, can We NOT
] see the cataclysm Of the strugrIina-
& forces OF a new hope, the pangs OF
1 travail in the birth of a new govern
J ment which shall be for men. and not
| for kings
Europe PareeIed Out.
! The despots victorious over NapoIeon
met IN congress in Vienna in Septer-
I Der, 1914, to divide the spOils OF the
/ war among them. The emperors Of
/ Austria and Russia. the kings Of p7,,e
I sia, Denmark, Bavaria and Wurtem-
I burg came in person to see that they
I got the lions share
The pope was represented BY cardi-
/ nal COnslave.
England by the duke Of WELLINGTON
/ lord CastlereaSh and lord Cathcart. lord
/ Clancarty and lord Stuart
! Inc Bourbons, again ruling and de-
I spoiling France, had an envoy in Tai
y leyrand.
( Ambassadors from Spain, Portugal
! and Sweden came to get what they
( could for their kings.
| Prince Metternich, the Incarnation
I Of Austrian despotism." presided at the
| long deliberations Of this congress-
I whose history is one of compacts so
| worthless, so wicked, so utterly sub
versive Of the rights OF humanity that
, their equal cannot be found in the an
mails OF mankind.
By the treaty OF Vienna Austrian
despotism was most largely rewarded
OF all the nations. receiving vast con-
cessions- The constitutional KINGDOMS
of Italy were annihilated and the Woe
stricken Italians, bound hand and foot,
were surrendered again to their mas
{ ters- Austria receiving Venice. LON
4 hardy, Tuscany, Modena, Parma and
various smaller states The repose of
the slave plantation was spread over
Europe again. and kings looked back
ward for their ideas Of rule.
Partitioning Of Poland.
It was TO be again the return Of the
day Of the divine right Of kings" the
right by which Frederick the Great OF
Prussia, Maria Theresa Of Austria and
Catherine the Great Of Russia fell upon
Poland with the voracious appetite Of
wolves and devoured her, imposing
each conquerOr upon his particular
share and by the iron hand OF the SOL
der, the religion and the language
most hateful to the proud, despairing
hearts humbled in the dust Of the con-
quered-
And it was to be again the time as
II was when another prince. the SOW
ereign Of Hesse, sold his gallant SOL
diers as food for George IFS cannon
on the American batuefield's. taking
the blood stained gold to buy houses
and lands and women and wine the
food Of ambition and appetite while
mothers, daughters and sweethearts
and helpless children by the thousand
were left starving and desOlate-
Men and women and vast stretches
OF land were 10 be tossed back and |
forth by the whims or the follies OF
kings and their mistresses, like Can
ada IN the days when IL was called
New France" with governors going [
out as reluctant eNiles longing 10 re-
turn TO the delights Of Versailles. and I
so distasteful a possession to Louis !
XIV that after MOntcalm's defeat La ]
lap, that the king might have q chance !
to sleep in peace"
The sovereigns entering into the |
shameless compact Of Vienna had in
herited by intermarriage and bequest /
the solidarity Of sovereignty. which {
was Europe Of royal connections from |
Hungary 10 Spain, from Scotland TO Z
sicily, making II possible for almost !
any prince or princess Of their houses {
TO succeed to a throne. however remote [
and foreign were the peoples TO be /
New Doctrine Of NatiOnaIism.
But the republic Of the United States /
and newly awakened and again re- ]
publican France spread the new doc !
trine Of nationalism-
sovereignty incorporated II in Prus- !
STA and under Bismarck and William 1 I
used II to organize the German empire, |
with the cry Of Germany for the Ger /
mans"
Cavour and Mazzini. with Victor |
Emmanuel II, made IL their battle cry !
in Italy TO drive out the hated Austri- 4
ans and Victor Emanuel III sits upon !
the throne Of a united italy, a king OF J
nationalism more than a sovereign Of /
sovereignty.
Frederick the Great wrote all his
laws for Prussia in the French Ian /
guage- You can see the original copies /
out at POtsdam- He could write very I
i'll in his native language.
Catherine the Great Of Russia always 4
wrote and spoke French. - is only /
during the last few decades that one
has heard in the land OF the car Rus
STA for the Russians" that ladies OF I
birth and breeding have not been too I
proud 10 use their native tongue among
themselves instead Of reserving it only
for servants. that the Russian theater
has been placed in the first place Of |
prestige instead Of the French. that /
Russian authors did not write first in /
French and then translate into their I
own language