Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-02
AFTER THE WAR Is OVER.
Allies In Danger Of Quarrelins Among
Themselves.

while the spring campaign In Eu-
rope's great war Is opening up" says
a statement issued by the National
Geographic society. a few days ago.
land the question is pending as TO
whether or not the coming summer
will end hostilities as those Of the Ma
poleonic wars were ended In the year
of which this is the centennial, 1t is In
teresting to go back a hundred years
for a glimpse Of the process by which
the map Of the continent was remade
at that time.
In March, 1914, Great Britain, Aus
tria, Russia and Prussia entered into
a treaty binding them to stand togeth-
er until peace was concluded. A little
less than three months later France
with Napoleon beaten, entered into a
secret agreement with these powers
giving them the disposition OF all the
countries which the Little Corporais
fall had liberated from French control
THE Allies decided to hold a con-
gress at Vienna for the distribution OF
the spoils Of the a AS soon as they
met there Great Britain, Austria, Rus
STA and Prussia decided that they
would first settle all controversies
themselves, and then call in France
and Spain to ratify what they had
done. France was represented by Tai
leyrand, and he declared that France
would never give It's consent to such q
course Of procedure. Sweden n o
tugal were finally added as members OF
the congress, and 1t was not long until
bones Of contention were thrown into
the area Of debate upon which the foul
Allies could reach no agreement among
themselves. One of these vas the
question Of the disposition of SaxonY
and Poland. Russia insisted that she
should have the whole Of Poland as
the price Of it's contribution to the war.
England, through its leading represen-
tative, Lord Castlereagh, firmly oppos-
ed the pretensions Of Alexander.
THE diplomatic war continued for a
number Of months with England stand
ing by France, her late enemy, against
Russia, her recent ally. Finally, with
Russia showing no signs Of yielding
France, Austria and Great Britain en-
tered into a secret treaty Of defense
the D Of which was to force Rus
STA to terms. The Allies probably would
thus have fought among themselves at
tina. time, just as the Allies did after
the Balkan war a few years ago. had
not Napoleon reappeared on the scene
of action as their common enemy
again.
THE outcome Of the chickering's In
the congress resulted in Austria and
Prussia retaining most Of their Polish
dominions, with the remainder going to
Russia under an agreement that II
| should be a separate kingdom. ruled
by the car Of Russia, according to its
own constitution. Switzerland was
given a constitutions; Italy retained
Lombardy and Venetia; and Holland
kept Belgium, Luxembourg and Linn
burg. Sweden, losing Finland to Rus
| STA, secured Norway as compensation
England made a proposal that the
slave trade of Europe should be abol-
ished. which resulted in a declaration
of abolition, leaving each country free
to fix it's own date Of abolition.
1T was the purpose Of the English
representatives to secure a solemn
! guarantee from the members Of the
congress to make collective war on any
nation that might undertake to disturb
the agreement Of partition. This plar
partOok something Of the nature Of ar
international court such as is today
recommended by many peace advo-
Gates. But the return Of Napoleon
forced the adjournment Of the con-
gress, almost before it had parceled
out the territory al issue, and wholly
before 1t could take up and adjust
those matters which might have the
! more fully made for permanent peace