Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-29
Readers Column
Max. Aug. ~. 1914.

pean history. You mention the parti-
ton Of Poland and state that Russia
took $4,000 square miles, Austria
$4,000 and Prussia $4,000. We let
that pass without investigation. But
you DO not say that after the last
partition Prussia occupied Warsaw
and the territory leading up to and
surrounding that point. How is 1t
that the German frontier of Audvig
Is about 125 miles from Warsaw,
At the time Napoleon overran Prus-
sia after having already all Of south
ern Germany, and Russia stepped into
the way, he gave all Of Prussia's Pol
ish possessions topRussia except those
that were original German territory.
having only been occupied by the
Polish kingdom for a time.
Even Danzig, an old German Hansa
city, and being q fortress, was held
BY the Poles till 1895, and that's about
Is miles from Thorn, another old
Hansa city, only 13 miles this side Of
the present Polish Russion border,
In West Prussia. Thankfully the Rus.
sian czar accepted the gift and made
peace with the victorious Napoleon.
Then, in reorganization Prussia aban-
doned its world power plans and
%henceforth assumed a German policy.
Partition in Poland's partition out
side Of reOccupation Of original Ger
man territory, has been regretted and
recently branded as brutal aggres.
sion by German army officers. Ma.
poleon's gift to Russia has never been
wanted back again and Russia left to
fight Polish revolutions alone. From
then on, Prussia never desired any
other than German territory, and then
mostly in the interest of German uni
fication.
met an old German from Baden
In st. Paul, who fought with the rev.
%olutionists there, IN 1s49. always
predicted that the only salvation OF
Germany from its dishonoring could
come from Prussia," he declared.
Ernst Moritz Arndt, a iPrussian and
German patriot of Napoleon's time.
had then already for a long time
sung: WAS list des Deutschen Va.
terland?" and "Das game Deutach.
land sail es sein." The Germans of
Schleswig-Holstei fought from 1849.
81 for %deliverance from Denmark.
When, in 1864, Prussia and Austria
intended to reunite them with Ger.
many. England threatened to land
troops in Holstein to aid Denmark in
prevention of their plan. England has
ever feared a united Germany, be-.
cause 1t might grow strong and begin
tn 0Vnond .E EpnTrFfmt >,Nikol Nn--~-r
they could not have bought Hessian
troops to fight against Washington's
army. Before ! the Franco.German
war | read in q local paper in Ger
many, which was no organ Of the
government, butyfather S5of democratic
tendency, IF aItench war is forced
on us we will not sheath the sword
until we have reunited Alsace and
Lorraine with t6ABtf: mother country.
Germany" Nottthe king or emperor,
but the people said 30; but never q
word for some French territory.
AS Napoleon III. always wanted
more Of Germany's land besides AL
sace-Lorraine, so the French people
have for the last 40 years given the
retaking Of these, provinces from Ger
many as reason for q desired war.
After nearly 200 years Of French &C.
cupatiQn, about q tenth Of the popula.
ton only spoke Trench in 1871. There
has been no revolution against Ger
man rule until today, despite the agi-
tati0n of some French societies.
When, after the trouble at Zabern,
that city did not want the garrison
any more. six other cities in Alsace
petitioned to get It.. According to the
London Times, England claims to
have been struggling to maintain the
status quo. That was all Germany
wanted, to leave everyone his, and to
be left In its possessions.
But II that was true, England could
not be an ally to France, because
France was not satisfied with the
status quo. England's q for en-
tering into this war In company. with
France and Russia has been plainly
stated by its own papers. IF we keep
hands of now and Germany is not
o~verpowered, we would have to face
German expansion alone" England's
a~ntagonism against German colonies
and navy were so well known for
many years that even the German
socialists saw no more than a defens-
i've measure in the enlargement of
the army q year ago. After they
elected 100 representatives to the
%reichstag, Bebel declared:
Foreign nations should know, in
the first place, that Germany's de-
fensive military power is not weak.
ened by this last election"
Germany and its emperor did not
and do not want other than German
territory and some colonies for the
surplus of 65,000,OO0 of population.
because they did not commit race sui
eide like France. Genuine Americans
admit that German justly needs col
onies. But England has long feared
the growth of German trade and navy
and SO many times uttered the desire
to send the German fleet to the bot
tom that even the socialists realized
the injustice and laid their hands in
the emperor's, pledging him to stand
with him faithfully for the Fatherland
through danger and death, and the
Hungarian socialists raised a contri.
button Of $1,000, 900 for the War Fund
ct Austria. A report from London
says that the decision OF some bat
ties is only a phase to the allies, but
it's vital to Germany That is true.
France or England are not in danger
Of their freedom or territory, because
GERMANY wants none Of theirs. but