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ce4-'ed Cyprus and became the guaran-
,of OF the Turkish integrity, RESPONSE
pie thereby for the Armenian plassa-
ores ana Macedonian crimes Of the fu-
lure. France obtained Tuuis and the
generatlon-!ong resentment cf Italy.
When it was all over this peace with
honor' that Beaconsfie,d acclaimed on
ms return from Berlin accomplished
these things: 1t estranged Russia and
Germany, since Bismarck supported
Vienna against Petrograd. and this
cs'Ianserncnt led TO the Eranco-Rus-
@,'iii alliance. 1t e~strarsed italy and
FRANCE, and Italy en,ersd the triple
aIiiance; 1t did equal injustice to all
INC Balkan states and made the later
Balkan wars inevitable. 1t sacrificed
serbia to Austria, Rulnania to Rus
s!a, Bulgaria to British concern about
Cons'antinople. 1t gave the Turk 80
years more in which to massacre and
destroy. 1t preserved The eastern quas-
ton unsettled; it did nothing justly,
and the question of the rights of ma
ions had no hearing in the Berlin con-
counter, in which all the great powers
trafficked in the flesh of the small
peoples.
Democracy Given Hard Blow.
Rut 1T is to the congress OF Vienna
that we must turn at the present time
70 md any real parallel for the new
ersallies gathering, for that was the
iast effort of Europe to liquidase a
general War. AT Vienna the conquerors
OF Napoleon gathered to abolish the
peru which the ideas of the French rev
oiutloa held for all sovereigns and all
autocracies With respect TO France,
on The military and territorial side,
Napoleon's conquerors made peace
promptly III a treaty OF Paris, signed u
NIUE more than a month after the first
apuication of F~ontainebleau. France
lost her conquests and was restored to
.ne frontiers of 1888, in the main. but
the integrity OF the old France was
hlalntalned against the Prussian effort
10 seize Alsace-Lorraine. 1t was not
WIN any desire to save France that her
eolqoerors dealt with her in Il moder-
ave SPIRIT it was merely to make pos
slpie n retoraticn of a Bourbon king
and thus enlist France in the general
tnusade against liberal ideas-against
sle spirit OF the French revolution.
tiaVing disposed OF France. the repre-
sen'atlves of Russia, Britain. Austria
ana PRUSSIA undertook to restore the
world which had been swept away by
.he revolution. The partition of Poland
was finally contaminated. Prussia.
Russia and Austria took their several
s.laSes, italy was again turned over to
l.s oid plunderers; Austria was re-
established in Venice. the B%ourbons in
11aples. was turned over to
l1oliand: everywhere the rights and the
Wlshes of races were disregarded. Ma
poieon, returning from Elba,
mat the congress of Vienna was dis
solved, but Waterloo, following fast
upon the adjournment of this ngress
eflabied its determination to stand.
Inc consequences of this settlement
were. even more evil than those of the
later Berlin gathering. The Bourbon
restoration lasted in France but Is
years. Belgium promptly broke away
atom Hol1and; Italy. under the leader
fury OF struggle for liberty and unity.
noiand again and again revolted. All
Europe was swept in. 1S4S by a new
rising to restore the lost liberties OF
the revolution era. The rivalries Of
austria and Ct Prussia led to the war
Of 1866. VIC ""A
When they had written the aerea.
of Vienna the allied sovereiens
united In a holy alliance directed
against liberal ideas and caIculated to
restrain France. the natural home Of
revolution. The consequences of this
aelloerate program are seen with clar-
ny only now. when Prussia. Russia and
Austria have fallen into ruins. The
Hapsburgs, the Romanoffs and tho HoS
henzollerns, who framed the ocum
OF vienna are gone-in exile or dead,
italy 10 Tree, France republican. Europe
is unbound. Yet this liberation has
taken a full century; only now is Po-
land rising from the servitude imposed
more Than a century ago; only now is
italy redeeming the last of her Latin
prethren from Austrian chains.
Results Of Bad Agreement.
The purposes expressed in the con-
gress OF Vienna. the principles estab-
lished there, were soon repudiated by
France: they were never Formally ac-
cepted ~ the British. who, seeking pro-
lection against new French menaces.
consented rather than agreed to the de-
cisions. They were banished from
Italy within half a century, but they
prevailed in Russia, in Austria and in
Germany to the very hour when the
present conflict came. They were re-
yvealed again in the congress of Berlin,
where Britain was again h~arnessed to
the chariot Of reaction, this time
through fear of Russia: n France.
newly beaten and mutilated, was help
less. For a full century. therefore, the
evil done at Vienna has endured and it's
inevitable harvest has been the world
war.
The peace Of Utrecht. a century ear
Her. was q different order of settle
ment. 1t terminated a war between
kings rather than between nations. 1t
ended h effort OF Louie XIV to domi-
nate the whole continent. No question
OF liberalism was in any mind; the
single purpose was to preserve the VIC
tory achieved. to, insure Europe
agatnstnew French aggressions. I'm
like the conditions existing now and ex-
listing in the time of the congress of
vienna. there was no military deci-
sion in advance of the making Of
peace. The fioodtide Of French sue
cess had long passed. Blenheim, Ra-
MILES and Malplaquet had broken the
military might OF France, but the
French armies were still strong, French
territory nra 1t ion IN intact and ISennoh