The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02


honor. honesty and probsy a. IN. vs-v
period when German mobiles. both lay ana
clerical. were. most OF them, robbers and
perJurers and distin suishsd throughout Eu,
rope for their boerishness The merchant,
had discovered that In trade honesty 4, IN.
! beat policy. and. beginning for sordid r..
sons. perhaps, had set up a high standard
which In time grew to be more - Issa
| general
Mr.. King gives page after page to tina
story of these days, civil wars, church
and state. personal ambitions, successes
and failures: a weller of humanity In
the byways of history. There was tina
mad Archbishop who succeeded G'sel.
bert one John Grant, a firebrand MONTH
mated by the Pope. Clement V. He plaved
hob with the constituted order Of thinss. ,
fired" host OF his clergy and earnss
for himself the hearty hatred or every
element. civic and ecclesiastic. in ,he
/ body polite. insomuch that at Nordau
an angry woman publicly fogged him
an early Fury. But, though solcmnlv
declared n lunatic by the Bremen chan.
ter, his pulp Mt Rome was strong and
there was near civil war before he was
sent to Avignon. with certain fat reye.
nucs conferred on him, to pass the 70.
mainder of his days
With the first quarter of the four.
teenth century gone guilds became com.
mon and fourished so that the sena,.
banned them. The result was a dcrn,.
cratic protest and a popular movenen,
for manhood suffrage and freer repre.
sentation in the city councils Of govern
ment The discontents increased. and a
plague added to the distress OF the cit.
Gems. Evil days for Bremen, troubl.
piled\ on troubles head. A Bremen
merchant had disobeyed the order for.
bidding members TO trade with BRUCE,
and Flanders. Bremen was summoned
to Lubbock for judgment: the summons
was unanswered. Hamburg was un.
friendly and made capital Of the Incl.
dent. Bremen was expelled from thA
league. In 1858 she appealed for re.
admittance and at last got IT, but had
to pay a price.
So through revolution, political and
religious, civil war and trade war and
foreign wars and the Reformation.
Bremen made its troubled way Spain
and the Netherlands make war, and
German trade has its wings clipped
Sympathzing with the northern party,
Bremen merchants arc tempted ny the
gold of the southerners. and often their
ships are found in Spanish pay. Piracy
runs riot in the North Sea: Oldenhure
gives II harbor. Lubbock is wrestlin8
with Denmark. And just at this time
England reaches for a share OF -
worlds commerce. English ships are &
every sea. English companies arc q
Stade and Hamburg. as the Hansa -
been in London and Lynn. HambuH'
smells profit and extends a welcome
Lubbock and Bremen are furious hfs
powcrless TO prevent Says Bremens
The English have drained all Germany
Of gold and goods. They are suckine
the life out Of us" Ambassador Parkino
to the Hansa Tag: There is only Q
miserable remnant left OF your once
great confederacy. Where is your head
where your limbs. where your life? Yoi
know better than any one that the fea
remaining portions of your union ars
ready to fall apart" And so it waA
The German Emperor appeals to ths
. English Queen: no use: the merchanl
adventures are in Germany to stay, and
tho .Hanseatir representatives mus
evacuate the Steelyard, their commef
cial settlement in London.
II is not dun story that cx-Consn
King tells He has delved deep into ID
, chronicles of cid. the monkish page WI
It's legends Of saint and sage: ana rs
handles the modern history Of his "frS
cities" with consular correctness NJ n
: formation but without the Cramped du.
: ness II those to whom commerce j. mch
matter of statistics and humdrum od
lcupation. He makes OF trade pa
turesque background for history. ~
is no disciple Of the economic basis"