The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-03
SLAVIC GERMANY
LBy Gertrude E, Mallcttol ]

we are so frequently informed Is al social conflict, is the Slayonic ele- ment in Germany. Contrary to the generally accepted idea, the Prusslans are not Teutonit, but Slavic.
 In order to establish this stateemnt we may best survey briefly the his tory of the Teutons and of the Slavs. The early history of the Slavs is yelled in obscurity, and we are able to obtain only an approximate idea as to their original home. In Pliny and Tacitus one notes the name Ven. dae, whence we get our modern Wen den, or Wends. This name appears as the designation for group of non. Germanic tribes living to the north. east of the Carpathian mountains and extending to the shores of the Baltic and the lake country of the Films. Roughly bounded, the home of the Slavs in the first few centuries after Christ may be said to extend from the Vistula and the Carpathinps north. eastward to the headwaters of the Volga and along that river to it's june. tion with the Oka, and southeastward to the Bug and the Dnieper compris- ing thus the southwestern third of the present Russian empire.
 Then again in the sixth century we find Procopius and Jardanes mention ing two great Slavic nations, the Sclaveni and the Antos, who were es- tablished on the left bank of the Dan- ube and to the north. From this state ment it would seem that in the third and fourth centuries the Slav people began to migrate from their homes in the south and west, and We assume that they made this move under Ires- sure from the Baltic tribes of the North. In the fifth century they took possession of the country between the Vistula and the Elbe, which had been ! ltlb ullONNupltN bN NAlt oOhNll " tAA VI llAl- grafton of the Germanic Burgundians. Goths and Suevi, who were moving against Rome. About the same time the Slavs entered territories now known as Bohemia and Moravis and others advancing from behind the Car pathians made themselves of western Hungary from which section they passed into Syria and Carinthia and Carinola.
 A little later on began the second great wave of Slavic migration, which again started from their original home north of the Carpathians and spread to the east and north, pushing the Films before it. It was under Scan dinavian rulers that these migrating tribes finally formed the nucleus of the present Russian nation.
 Now, taking a brief glimpse of Rus sian history, we get a different point of view, but nevertheless. further in formation bearing directly upon the question of Slavic Prussia.
 "Three new races of men," says the Russian historian Rambaud, through the three main invasions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were to mod. fly the historical development of the different parts of Slavonia, the Russia of the northwest was to make the ac- Quaintance of the Germans, Russia of the east and south, that of the Tar tar-Mongols, Russia of the west, that of the Lithuanians."
 After the disorder caused the early part of the migratory movement had been Quieted, the German merchants began their trading, and on the very heels of the German merchants came the Latin missionaries to the country on the Baltic. The Monk Meinhard, sent out by the Archbishop of Brem- en, converted the Liyonians and was created Bishop of Livonia. That which the Germans really brought, un- der the cloak of Christianity to the Slav, Lithunian and Finnish tribes set tied on the shores of the Baltic Sea, was tho ruin of their national inde- pendence and it's consort servitude. The Apostle Meinhard built a church at Uexkull, and fortress around the church. From that time these brave tribes lost their lands and their lib- erty.
 When the divided empire of Frank ish Charlemagnc made way in the 9th century for a German kingdom, mill tary marches were established for the defense of the frontiers, Brandenburg, which had been conquered by Charle- magne in 7S9 was made in 926, mar graviate q. e., a territory under the Jurisdiction of military lord of the borders) by Henry I, of Germany. Ot- to founded bishopries in this terri tory
 Gradually the wary Livonians and Slavs realized the tendency of the mis- sionary movement and finally rose against the missionaries. The natives by sheer force of numbers were vic torious and they returned to their own gods.
 Perhaps we can gain no quicker in- sight into the real antagonisms of these native tribes to the religion of the missionaries than by noting the quaint record history offers us in the ntntor,,o,t thnt after thnr hnd nnnnnnr.