Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-21
rAE MAP OF EUROPE


 The War of the Powers win certainly result in re making the map of Europe But how shall the boundar ies be drawn?
 Much has been said to prove that the war IS ut outcome of an inevitable race conflict between the Teu tons and the says According to this view Europe is destined to be either Germanized or Russanized
 Whether such mighty forces of development are real y responsible for the present conflict is obvious that thc world as a whole cannot tolerate calmly the pros pect of either Teuton or slav emerging supreme The world wants Europe to be neither great German em pire nor a great Russian empire
 In science literature art industry and commerce let the rivals go as far they like Civilization is non partisan and in modern times has little to do with race But territorial expansion is different matter
 When it comes to making maps the world is coming to demand principle which really as old as gov ernment Itself and the defiance of which has caused nearly all the wars of history.
 The principle is this: The boundaries of a country should be the boundaries of a Which is to say no race should be permitted alien race without that races consent
 H. H Wells. the English author has called attention to this as the basis on which England and France to- geher with United States and other dsnterested nations
  redrawn after the war And he more the proposal is considered the rational 1t appears.
 Everyone knows that the bitter feud between France and Germany for half century is based chiefly on Germanys seizure of French territory at the close of the Franc2Prussion war. AsaceLorraine has done Germany no good and brought her ncaculable harm And Europe is full of Asace Loraines.
 Austria. half German and dominated by Germany since lS66 rules over 1OO0OOO0 dsconented Hungaans and 20OOOOOO stI more disconteuted slays She holds Bosnia and Herzegovina. which she seized from Turkey in 1908 and Trieste and Trent which raciay and hs- toricaly belong to Italy Such a situation me nsnr of the new. Democratic outlook which recognizes the right of self rule in all peoples cannot long continue
 It is this new light that has resulted in home rule for Ireland to Che advantage of both Ireland and Eng land. Italy has regained much of her ancient glory since she was freed from Austrian domination Greece is once more a puissaut little power since the Greeks have escaped from Turkish tyranny. The Slavic Bal kan states finding themselves. Belgium and HoI land when tied together by the treaty of Vienna after the NapoIeonc wars made no progress. snce thei separation 1880 each has gone its own way and to day the world admires both.
 The demand for this new democratic sort of map making is sure to grow stronger. And if 1t were ear ried rational extreme. might expect ulumatel, to see some such arrangements this:
 Germany would absorb the German part of Austria and surrender he rest The Hungarans might const ute a republic or limited monarchy of their own-bu not with artificial monarch stuck on an eztemporze throne by ho Powers like the Prince Wied of Albania The slavs might join Russia; still better they migh organize Balkan confederacy of Slavic states afe the model of the Swiss confederacy There would re suit new nation greater than seryia in her gloriou fourteenth century era when she spread from the Adr attic to the Aegean.
 Lorraine, being French. might return to France Alsace being mixed. might decide for herself or b decided The Danish part of schleswigHolstein. seize by Germany in 1864 would return Denmark Whereve iu Europe existing boundaries overlap racial border there would be an honest effort to reshape and Ina monize them'
 This may be a utopan dream But is there am thing that would do more for the future welfare Europe and even for the advancement and prosperity the countries that might lose territory?