The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04


Into the Great War OF 100 Years AEo
Americas Advantage Now Compared
with Her Situation Then.
lines ON the -nap Of North America were drawn D.
the sword On the fa-away battlefields OF the oie
World and how our less fortunate forefathGs "ef'
anbroiled IN all the quarrels Of Europe. the Uimera
kilds Of the New World being filled with senseies
strife II is also Lesson for the present day. draWf
from the experience Of the United States In tns
war 80 ycars aco. whc- the rcpubnc TWICE ehte'ec
the armed conflict.
Russia win be the subject Of the article next Sun
day in this scenes Of sketches Of the backgrounds O.
the war; as Mr.. Morgan lately saw them while Jour
neyins along the line Of Napoleon's campaigns.
@ INCE the New World has been linked
y to the Old, its dcstinies have beer
powerfully affected by all the grea'
wars that have afflicted the other hemis.
phere. Why, indeed, was Columbus sent
on his voyage of discovery except tC
find a new route to the Indies in place
of the old road which the Turks had ef'
fectually closed in 1855. when they over
threw the Eastern Empire and took
Constantinople?
The lines on the map of AIr American
Continent were nearly al drawn VIII
For 200 years the colonies OF the New
World were mere counters in the war
game, as it was played by the princes
beyond the sea Nova Scotia, for eN-
bayonets of Europe four or five times,
and little Delaware as often. while the
people of New York and New Jersey
were thrice shuffied back and forth.
Fighting Over Thrones.
The average man on this side OF the
Atlantic would not at first blush think
it could ever have mattered much to
Americans that the last Hapsburg on
the throne of Spain was without chill
dren. Yet because Louis XIV of France
l,,lf ill md
son on the vacant Spanish throne. saw
age Indians, led by the French. ravaGed
the valleys of Massachusetts and mas
sacred the settlers of Deerfield: ,, while
were filled with terror and poverty. Al
ter that war Of the Spanish succession
had for twelve years sourSed TWO
worlds with it's mad strife, few royal
politicians sat down in room of a
house in the little Dutch town of Utrecht
and remade the map of North America,
as we'll as that of Europe.
When only thirty years had passed,
Frederick the Great thrust his sword into
the map, and as Macauiay has SAID. IN
order that he might rob neishbor wnom
he had promised to defend, black men
fought on the coast of Coromandel ana
red men scalped each other by the Great
Lakes of North America. That the
Hohenzollern King might snatch from
Austria the Il Goa square miles of Silesia.
he cried havoc. Soon most OF the nations
Of Europe were at one anothers throats
in the war of the Austrian succession;
A feet of 1o0 sail swept out of Boston
Harbor with an army of nearly 1000 New
Engianders who went forth to bombard
their French neighbors on Cape Briton
and capture the fortress town OF LOUIS
burg, the Gibraltar Of the North which
was the key to the st. Lawrence River
and to Canada. At the same time painteI
Indians were breaking hloody trsi 1
along the shores of Lake Champiain and
the Connecticut River and hurting them-
selves on the peaceful Massac nusettS
village of Concord. And all 10 determine
whether a woman. Maria Theresa. should |
nc suffered to sit on the throne or her
Hapsburg fathers at Vienna!
Banishing the Lilies.
While PAINTING and exhausted Europe /
still vas Inducing Il breathing spell after |
the Peace of AK la Chapelle in Las, an
other war began to sputter in America; ,
The lusts and jealousieS of the Old word .
flaming up amid the wilds of the New
World Washington drew his SWORD
against the French. who were destined
vet to be his allies, and in 1I54 he march- !
I'd into the Western wilderness. while the
New Englanders fell upon the French |
Acadians by the Bay of Fundy ana
banished from their homes IL, the people
The strife that thus had started on the
Ohio spread to the Fistula and cuImi-
mated in the frightful Seven Years war
in the midst of it that he would con-
uuer America in Germany. ana the con-
fIct did prove to be momentous In Its
consequences to the americans France
lost Canada on the Plains of Abraham,
where Wolfe died victorious: the French
lilies were expelled from the continent
q nd the banner of Spain from the fiorl,
das Until then the British colonies had
held only a fringe of the Atlantic coast,
but when the map was made anew at
Paris in 1853 America was painted red 10
the middle of the Mississippi. with all the
world beyond. clear to the Pacific. dyed
a SPANISH yellow.
Two War Paintings.
ment not unreasonably wished the Amer
leans to pay q share of the cost of the
war which they themselves had started;
the coloniles very properly repeilea
London, where they were without repre-
sentation, and in 1iI5-a England lost the
in the New World which she
had won on the fields of Germany. To
Europe the American Revolution was
only the continuation or successor of the
Seven Years War. France, as the only
ally. of the reyolted colonies, avensing
British red from the fairest part Of the
map OF this continent;
AS the surrender of CORVALLIS is de-
picted on the walls of the Capitol at
Wa shington. the American. Gen. Lincoln,
is seen receiving the sword Of the con-
1uered Briton. In the Gallery Of Battles
IN the Palace OF Versailles: however.
There Count Rochambeau is portrayed
As holding the center of the stage. with
George Washington pathetically standing
~ in comparative insignificance. Those ,
.wo pictures reflect the contrasting points
of view.
Only five days after the American re-
public had become an established fact by
he Inauguration of Washington as Pres !
dent, the states general of France con- :
rened at Versailles to repair the royal
finances, which the American alliance
, n ha had
10 wreck. Then and there the French !
revolution began on that 5th day of May
n the year 11Se. r.
Washington's Neutrality.
The duty OF issuing and maintaining {
he first proclamation of neutrality fell | !
o the administration Of Washington 1t
vas a delicate task. BY the treaty of ] &
IIliance made I'm IT'S, under which France $
lad so powerfully aided the Americans b
n their war for independence, the United | @
n her West Indian possessions while II | 6
vas bound by another treaty to admit Q
o American harbors French privateers I
md prizes. IL
The administration. however, adopted
he policy, which Italy announced to her '
lilies at the outset of the war of the Il
lations, that the conflict which had be- (
,un between France and England was d
lot a defensive war on the part of the r
french and that therefore the United '
states was absolved from going to the y
Washington not only declared for neu- o
rality, but also he served notice on the \
world that new nation had risen which
would hold itself aloof from the uuarrels | 4