Middletown transcript., 1915-03-27
"IDDIETOwH. DEL. MAR. 27, 1915
EUROPE'S MELTING POT


clamorous for the fray that Greece may
get a fat slice of the Turkey, that's
now acarving; Roumsnia and Bulgaria
covet their portions of that same fowl
and something besides from the crum-
bling Austro-Hungarian monarchy;
thus will practically all Europe be in
one huge melting pot as for eight
months its leading powers have been.
What will be the outcome? That to
say truly can only Infinite wisdom, but
we venture few guesses.
1. AS we predicted last August, Ger
many after truly long and valorous
fight will finally be vanquished and as
an empire cease to be. That naughty
dynasty of the Hohenzollerns, Kaiser
William and all six of his royal
brood, will be permanently put out of
the king business-indeed, if need be,
this mighty ''Divine right War Lord
will be forced to play on the Isle of
st. Helena the last act of the great
Napoleon he aped so badly.
2. Austria, that impossible racial
tumble which but for the strong per-
sonality of Emperor Francis Joseph
now in his 85th year, would at his death
have tumbled into three or four frag-
ments of empire and doubtless have
precipitated bloody scramble among
the nations-will be partitioned by the
swords of the victorious Allies, will be
totally broken up and the Hapsburg
line also be forever extinct.
The $4,000, 900 Germans from Austria
will be confederated with the new Ger
many which will then be bigger than
before. Moreover, for the auto
cratic rule of the mad Kaiser, some
form of popular rule, either of a Re-
public or of constitutional monarchy
resembling that of England, will be
substituted.
At present, the German people have
in truth only a sham self-rule through
their Reichstag, the Bundesrath, ap-
pointed by the Kaiser from his royal
favorites, forming the upper chamber,
while the War Lord himself has absu-
lutte control of the German army and
navy, and is more truly Gar than
Nicholas II himself
3. Germany will also in part be par
titioned, and possibly Czar Nicholas will
be forced to keep his word and form
out of Prussian Poland and the Po-
land of his own Empire, an automatous
Poland, and the heroic Poles once more
appear as a great state in Europe.
4. Alsace and Lorraine will go back
to France and possibly France will re-
take her ancient boundary quite to the
Rhine, so that in the future, "Die
Wacht Am Rhine" will be sung on the
farther bank only.
5. Schleswick aud Holstein will be
returned to Denmark whence in 1864
Prussia stole them.
The Kiel Canal will probably be neu-
tralized-and the Kaiser's $4,000, 900
be lost to Germany
6. Heligoland, that costly blunder
of Lord Salisbury, will be claimed by
England again, and the Kaiser's $50, 900
600 outlay for Notifications there, far
from proving a Teutonic menace to
England, will be another Gibraltar
to defend her shores.
Z. Gallicia in East Austria will 90
Russia.
8. Bosnia and Herzegovina will be
returned to Servia whence Austria
seized them in 1910.
8. The "Sick Man of Europe" as
he was styled over 100 years ago, will
this time have his entire estate in
Europe, if not indeed in Asia, admins
tered, possibly as follows:
Russia will be given her warm
water outlet through the Bosphorus,
and the Dardanelles, and either she or
Greece occupy Constantinople.
10. Roumania will probably restore
to Bulgaria her share of the late Turko-
Balkan war spoils wrested from Tur-
key and in return receive Bukowina
and Transylvania from Hungary.
II. Greece will get another big
chunk of Turkey in Europe.
IL. Italy will get from Austria the
Trentino Trieste, and Fiume and may
be more of the coast commanding the
Eastern Adriatic, her coveted italia
irredenta''-'Italy unredeemed.
13. Heroic Belgium will be reim-
bursed for all her losses, out of Ger
many's depleted exchecker and receive
luxembourg territory besides.