Evening star., 1915-11-14

May 3. 1866. in the French parliament.
said: You will recall the word of the
Roman who. in the midst of proscr'p
ions, cried: 'Ah. accursed house of
Albei Accused house of Alhe. il will
cost me my life" Well. gentlemen, to-
day 1t is the language of most of the
small states of Europe Have you. for
example. fertile territory; n port with
deep water which may afford refuge
to great fleets; a canal that may unite
ewo great seas, or, for the elimination
OF III fortune, do your subjects speak
the same language as the subjects of
your powerful and ambitious neighbor
whom fate has placed alongside of you'
All. woe: woe to you.
That is what happened to unfor-
tunate Denmark. whlc, ~ all
a fertile territory which could satisfy
a Jealous neighbor; "A fine port like
mat OF eI: great canal that u "a
Elder, which unites the two seas, the
baitic and the North sea: finally Den
mark had subjects who spoke the Ger
man Language. the language of tn.
nelghbor. Due to these united con-
ditions the neighbor took those beauti-
ful duchies. and took them in the name
OF the German confederation"
NJ Theirs in this speech paid a high
tripute to the Danish people as ur
the most highly instructed in Europc
The Danish people has given proof or
ITS high intelligence and intelligent
initiative. for example, in the Question
OF proportional representa- on. which
was discussed at length as a new aues-
ton in the French parliament from
Isl2 TO 1914 This question, new in
r,, r rance ana elsewhere. was treated in
ine star OF July p and August IL
lsl2-had been solved satisfactorily in
,enmark by that country's minister OF
nnance. NJ Audroe in 1855.
VI: Thiers in the course of his speerf
said or the Danes: 1T is one of those
little peoples which may be Iikened To
nose men OF whom st. Lambert said.
They had the virtuous temperam menI'
one or those little peoples who in dc
ienuihe their property valiantly have
never dreamed of usurpinc thai ~
their neighbor: which has been always
extremely proud of its independence.
"hlch. as the Swiss and Hollandcrs'
mas persisted without cessation in a
modest but honorable role.
In Schleswig there were some Cor
mans. certainly, but it was not a Ger
man. but a Danish,
Schleswig Danish, province. and It
Not German never belonged to
the confederation:
yet schleswig was taken from Dem
marx May ., 1866. BY the terms of the
treaty of Prague the people were to be
eoiisu Ihis clause, it goes without
executed
Prussia and Austria recognized first
Oh all the claims of Christian IX, but
on the refusal of the king to abrogate
the constitution of 1863 Prussian and
Austrian armies invaded Schleswig in
FEBRUARY, 1864. Would France and
England sanction this action? Lord
SoWley proposed an alliance offensive
and defensive. and Lord Clarendon went
10 Paris with a plan of intervention
defining the role of both France and
England But the occasion was un-
fortunate. France was dissatisfied with
England's attitude in the affairs in Po-
land and nothing was done
In all the phases of the Danish uues-
tion the cabinet of the Tuileries was
singularly irresolute. France and Eng
land. allies in the face of the Prussian
anu Austrian aggressive, would have
attracted the sympathies of all Europe.
Ihey would have carried Italy with
them, and thus permitted Austria
which felt herself already embarked in
bad affair. to have withdrawn The
war of 1856 between Prussia and Aus
trla would thus have been avoided and
consequently many things had not hap
pened. France, first of all, had not been
dismembered in 1870. and the present
Sreat war had not occurred.
Eighty thousand Prussians and Aus
trians invaded Holstein and Schles-
wig. Against this formidable force
these made heroic and memorable
defense. After desperate battles dur
ing six weeks the Notifications of
Duppel were taken April IS, 1864, by
the Austro-German armies and Jut-
land invaded and contributions i'm
posed. There was Il conference at Lon
don April IS. which concluded nothing,
and the 18th of June the war was re-
sunaed. An armistice, signed August l.
resulted in the peace of Vienna Octo-
Der 80
NJ. Jules Favre in his speech from
the tribune of the corps legislatif
April 10, 1865, said:
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THE question OF Denmark has this
double interest-that on the one part
the sigma ture of France
PruSSlaS has been placed at the
A,L;. foot of a treaty torn by
the swords of Prussia