The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-01
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Polish question Is as acute ms that o.
AlSace-Lorralne.

Polish question is as acute ms that Of
Alsace-Lorralne.
Scheswte- Holstetn and the Danes.
After its successful! war in 1866
against Austria, Bavaria, Saxony. Baden.
Hanover etc. Prussia became possessed
of the two ducnes Of SchleswiE-llol
stein. which are to the south of Denmark
on the Jut!and peninsula.
Here. strangely enough. there Is a
Danish question. \ number OF Danes
inhabt these duChi"S and have hrcn
irrItatcd by the Prussian officials and
officers int" preserving their national!
feeling intact ever since 1866. Calling
restrictions have been made. the very
existence of which intensificS tho hatred
and prevents the assimilation Of these
Danes. For instance. AmundSen. the
Arctic explorer. was forbidden to lee
turc in Danish in these duch!rs during
the winter of 1914. and there were
regulations enforced preventing more
than certain number of these Danish
pcnpl. from assembling In hotel, as
we'll as regulations against tho employ
mrnt ni Danish servants
I'm 1866. after its successful war. Prus-
Sia wiped out the old kingdom Of HIM
over and dr"v" it's king into exile In
AUSTRIA To-dny there is still party OF
protest against this aggression. Tho
Kaiser believes .hnw"vcr. that the ghost
of the claim ut the Kings Of Hanover
wns land when he married his only
daughter Ia the heir Of the House OF
Hanover and CAV" the young pair the
vacant Duchy If Brunswick. That this
Young man will inherit the great Guelph
treasure was no drawback to the match
III the eyes IF those in Berlin.
There is n hatred of l'russin In other
parts If Germany. but coupled with so
much fear that Ii will never take practi-
cal shape.
In Bavaria. for example, even tho
comic newspapers have for years rIdi-
rulcd the l'ruSsiauS and the House OF
InhrnZnllcrn. The smashing defeat by
Prussia Of Austria and the allied Ger
man States. Bavaria. SaXnny. HcsSe.
hanover. etc, in 1866. and the growth
Of prussianSm since then In all OF
these countries, keen tn" people from
any overt net. 1t is a question. perhaps.
as t. how these countries. especially Ia
varla. would act In case OF the utter de-
fca, of ,icrrnany. But ut present they
must b. counted on only rs faithful ser
wants, I'm military way. of the German
Emperor
Climate and Conquertng Genius.
MnnteSquIcu. the author OF the Esprit
de-, Lois" says, "All law comes from the
soil" and 1t has been claimed that resi-
dcncc in the hot climate OF the tropics In
some measure changes Anglo-Sa1on
character. It Is, therefore, always we'll
in Judging national character 10 know
something OF the physical chnracteris-
tics and climate of the country which a
nation inhabtts.
! The heart Of modern Germany Is the
great north central plain which COM
priscs virtually all Of the original King
dom of Prussia, stretching northward
from the Saxon and Harstz Mountains to
tho North and Baltic Seas. 1t is from this
,lrrury and infertile plain that for many
poured over Europe. Tho climate Is not
as cold In winter as that OF the northern
part Of tho United States. There Is much
rain. and the winter skies ara so dark
that the absence of the sun must have
some effect upon the character Of the
people. The SaHons inhablt a more