Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-11-28
GERMANY IS UNITED
FIRST Time in History Its People
Have Fought as One.
n No Previous War Have the Teutons
Presented a Solid National Front
to Their Enemes-Now All of
Them Are Fighting.

One of the most striking facts that
sets apart the present great War as
wholly unique, says the Washington
Star, is this: That in I'll the countless
wars wherein the different states that
comprise what is known as Germany
Lave been engaged iii the last ten or
fifteen centuries-and their number
runs well up into the hundreds-this
is the first time in the history of that
people that they have fought united
and entire.
Even in the last war in which the
German people were engaged the
Franco-Prussian ar OF 1870, not all
re Germans were involved. Austria,
enc of the most powerful of the leu
!0nic countries, held aloof; indeed, she
vas ready to fight, if at all, against
the so-called north German confeder-
ion, as the combination of German
states was then called, after SadoWa
and before the formation of the pres
ent German empire in 1871. In the
austro-Prussian war of 1866, four
ears previous, the two dozen Or more
eerman states were divided; in the
war over Schle5wig- Holstein, in 1864,
several of the smaller German states
declined to take the par of Prussia
and Austria against Denmark.
In the Napoleonic wars many of the
German states notably Bavaria and
Wurtemburg, were the allies Of the
French until the last year of the en-
pire. Prussia herself was an ally, al
though an unwilling one, of the great
French conqueror in the campaign of
1912 against Russia, deserving with
her contingent of 10000 under General
York just as soon as she heard of the
disaster to Napoleon's army in the
Russian SHOWS.
And throughout ali the fighting that
for centuries before Napoleon yeXed
the German country between the Bal
kans and the Rhine, never once did
they fight united. The score or more
of states always found their interests
adverse and continually drew their
swords upon one another. Even the
great Frederick Barbarossa was never
able to unite all the Teutons. Charlie
magne had no better luck. He found
the Germans like cells in basket. Nc
sooner would he get batch of the lit
tie kingdoms or duchies safely slowed
away inside the German empire than
he would be find half dozen of them,
which he fondly thought he had fast
ened in tight had slipped out mean
time and made alliances with his enc
mics. And so has been always, even
back to the day when Arminius-Her
mann, as they would call him today
wiped out the legion of Roman Varrus
and forever broke the back of the i'm
perial city's power north Of the Alps.
For many yellow-haired, shaggy
German on that day fought with bow
and spear side by side with the Ro-
man of the two-edged sword
Now, at length, after long centuries
of civil and foreign wars, after count
less combinations and dissolutions
and alliances and ruptures, but never
a solid Teuton front, the Germans are
fighting united. Not only are they
are fighting. From the Iron Gates of
fighting united, but all the Germans
from the Danube on the east to the
Rhine valley on the west, and from
the slopes of the Alps to the shores of
the Baltic sea, the ancient boundaries
of the Teuton peoples, every man who
can bear arms is in the field.