The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-28
OF CONGRESS
 OF VIENNA, MEETING OF
 MAP-MAKING MONARCHS

After war, what? History offers many precedents. but none more du-s bious in it's possibilities than the Con- gress of Vienna which followed the downfall of Napoleon. When the guns are sfIenced and the smoke Of battle has cleared away the diplomats have. their day, and strive, by cunning and intrigue, to gain the largest share of loot.
 Today is the centenary of the con- vention of Vienna signed Sept 2S, 1914, which provided for 9. great as sennblage of monarchs and their ad- visers to be held in the Austrian cap italr for tho purpose of making new map Of Euro and deyising plans to efface the effects of rep11bItcanism and perialisrn. The sesstonssof this con- eress. extending over many months iNapoIeonss escape from EIba. and am other war, were ushered in with mag niflcent festivities.
 To the court of Emperor Francis in w1en-as the Germans call Vienna, -came the Czar of Russia, the kings of Prussia, Bavaria, WurteInberg and Denmark, and nearly all the stafes- men and diplomats of erninence in Europe There, in the latter part or 31S14, were to De seen the brilliant and interruptions Prince Motternish, who presided at the sessions of the COnKT0SSs e1A44A@c9 Viscount Cast1ereagh, representa- England; Count Nesselrode and other diDIornats of the Car; Wilhelm von Humboldt and EHardenb1rg in the train of the Prussdan monarch; the sturncoat Talley yrani and other states men Of Bourbon France; and scores of other disting guished men from Sweden, Spain. Portugal and the German and T+aSisan states Of all the recognized bowers only Turkey, and the United States were not represented In this s'smarket of mankind.
 While this brilliant assenbiage was in yVeila. and the government Of Ans tria was spending fortunes in their entertainment, the people of the war stricken country were starving-4sa Ine pomp and pageantry of the court was at the expense of a people impoyer- ished to the point of utter exnaus- ion While monarch and titled o1p- lonnat nibb1ed at costly banquetss Wo- men and children in the novels hard
 by were dying from lack of food. And for their entertainment the delegates to the Congress had no less a person. age than Ludwig van Beethoven. The ssconeert of the powers had it's mus ical accompaniment-
 sThe sovereigns stw1ao had declared themselves the instruments of Provi- dence against revolutionary France, Esavx Durl1y. s.remodeled the map of
 
 bition It resenbled a market of mankind. The commission, charged with dividing up the human herd among the kings, was greatly troubled E by the edgencies of Prussia, who de-
 handed S,3oO,O00 additional subjects as an indemnity The congress even
 discussed the quality of the human
 merchandise and gravely recognized | the fact that former Frenchman of Aix-la7Chapel1e or Cologne was worth more than a. Pole. In order to eouaIize the lots they reckoned a number of men from the left bank of the Rhine equivalent to a larger
 number from the right bank of the Oder"
 In the end, after much bartering,
 Russia received the duchy of Warsaw, western Galicia, the circle of Zamosk; {; Prussia the ducFy of Posen, West phalia, Swedish Pomerania, and 700,- l GOO Saxons; Austria the Venetian l states, Ragusa. the valleys of the Bor- mic, Valteline and Chiavenna, the
 TyroI and Saltzburg; England asked nothing on the continent, but received islands in the Mediterranean, the An | titles, and the Indian Ocean, Ceylon. | and the Cape of Good Hope.