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New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
OF Vienna Good Model to Avoid at Peace Table

The "Ccrsican Ogre" escaped from Erbs,
was embraced by the Bourbon legions sent
to capture him, and bade fair to rule the
world again. There followed the Hundred
Days, then Waterloo, then Napoleon's sec
Ond ahdication. dated Paris, June 22, zslS
Nominaliy, the Congress Of Vienna had been
in session from September, 1914, until June
1915. Actually 1t ceased TO function when
Napoleon resumed the reins Of government
and did not reassemble aftec his final exile
1t had laid the social discomfort Of the
dethroned petty princes by conferring upon
them grandiose titles and special privileges;
1t had made the barons Of the old empire
into counts, and ths counts into princes; it
had sown the seed Of future revolution in
Poland, Finland, Belgium, italy, Norway
1t had carefully conserved. where possible
the rights Of the major dynasties, divided
the swag among the powers big enough to
insist upon their share. but except for its
impotent pronuncismento regarding slave
cry. had paid not the slightest regard to the
masses of humanity, who were disposed of
by arbitrary methods, as usual, and with
out the formalisy Of asking their advice and
consent.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

gates OF Derry against James IL; and
that is that the United States have sepa-
rated themselves (no doubt, in his opin-
ion, temporarily, regrettably, and rebel
liously) from Great Britain. And he
cannot draw the moral even of that.
In the end as might be expected, Sir
Edward Carson turns out to be a Home
Ruler. Like Sir Horace Plunkett, he
wants an Irish Cabinet to advise the
Irish Executive and to frame schemes for
the British Parliament. But how on earth
is he to have an Irish Cabinet without
an Irish Parliament? And why should
he swallow the one and strain at the
other? 1t is like demanding an Irish
king while insisting on an English
beadle. Let Sir Edward think out his
scheme for five minutes with competent
expert advice, and he will see that his
Irish Cabinet-not, observe, an Ulster
Cabinet, but an Irish Cabinet-will land
him in a far more complete scheme of
Home Rule than the wretched makeshifts
of Gladstone or Mr.. Asquith
The only solution of the Irish question
that will bear examination for half an
hour is the American one; that is, the
federation Of the three nations (four, if
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

two pariaments in what he calls 'the
heart of the empire" without social,
financial and economic disaster, constant
friction and ultimate secession. He does
not know that the constant friction gen.
Grated by the attempt to govern the
British Empire from London has long
since been relieved by the creation of
several parliaments in British North
America, several parlaments in Austral-
asia and parliament in South Africa,
and that this war has proved that these
parllaments and their constituencies have
rallied enthusiastically to the empire in
its day of need, while Ireland, Egypt and
India are thorns in it's side, and ironical
contradictions to it's professions of DEM
ocratic good faith.
Please remark that Sir Edward Car
sons ignorance as to the political con-
stitutions of the empire he champions is
not an affectation, like his innocence as to
the question about the morality imposed
by the Irish priesthood No statesman
would compromise himself by an ex-
hibition of political ignorance before the
American public if he really knew any
better. Sir Edward knows just one thing
more than the apprentices who shut the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
alleyrand Could
l. Speak on Both Sides

Tallcyrand, who had lied glibly for Bona
parte, could prevaricate for Bourbon. his
new master. BY making the victors quarrel
among themselves, he sought to save France.
Eventually territorial readjustmcnts were
worked out along these lines:
Holland and Belgium we're to be united
to form barrier against ance to the
north. Swiss neutrality was to be guaran-
teed; Italy was again divided, the Republic
of Genoa being given to Sardinia and Vene-
tia to Austria in compensation for the Span
lsh Netherlands, now to form part of the
kingdom of Holland; wicked Saxonv was
punished by giving half her lands to virtu-
GUS Prussia, and Prussia was further re-
warded by sugmenting her territories on the
Rhine; Russia, abandoning her plans for
follsh state, took the greater part of the
Duchy OF Warsaw, all that had been left
free by the third partition of the ancient
republic, and also relieved Sweden of re-
sponsibility for Finland, giving her Nor
way instead, and permitting the dual king
dom to crown Bernadotte, once Napoleon's
marshal, as king; Britain kept the Dutch
and French colonies she had seized.
inc congress, apparently, had ceased 10
dance, and begun TO march Il put itself on
record as against slavery, and in favor of
the free navigation of international rivers.
such as the Rhine and the Danube. Then Il
ran.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

nothing of constitutional law 1t is
plain from Sir Edward Carson's first
answer-the all important one-that the
Irish question is to him what it is to
child saying its lessons out of Little
Arthur's History Of England"; that is,
question of whether Ireland and England
are to be separate, independent, foreign
Kingdoms or exactly what they are at
present. His answer has no sense or any
other basis, and it is on this childish as
sumption that he has organized armed
rebellion and sought the assistance Of
Germany, with the effect of destroying
the authority and prestige of parliament
tary institutions in England and con-
vincing the Kaiser that the British En-
pire, confronted with a civil war in Ul-
ster, would not fight. What can one say
but "Sancta Simplicitas"
Home Rule for Ireland is not Sepa-
ration: it is the alternative to Separation
The advocates of Separation ficrcely op-
pose the Home Rule party, and, like Sir
Edward Carson, raise armed forces to
defy the British Parliament. They say
of Home Rule exactly what Sir Edward
Carson says, "We won't have it,
Sir Edward Carson cannot conceive
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

age Brton TO confess that he wanted to
be understood had anything so natural as
a craving for fellowship or for being liked.
There is something touching and
terrifying about our character, about the
depth at which it keeps its real yearnings,
about the perversity with which it dis
guses them, and its inability to show its
feelings. We are, deep down, under all our
lazy mentality, the most combatve and
competitive race in the world, with the ex-
ception perhaps of the American.
This is at once a spiritual link with
America, and yet one of the great barriers
tc friendship between the two peoples We
are not sure whether we are better men
than Americans. Whether we are really
better than French, Germans, Russians,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

no mere fluffy gaucheric, it is our special
form Of what Germans would call kultur.
Behind every manifestation of thought or
emotion, the Briton retains control of self,
and is thinking: That's all I'll let them
see; even: That's all I'll let myself feel
This stoicsm is good in its refusal to be
foundercd; bad in that it fosters q narrow
outlook; starves emotion. spontaneity, and
frank sympathy; destroys grace and what
one may describe roughly as the lovahle
side of personality. The English hardly
ever say just what comes into their heads
What we call good form the unwrittcn
law which governs certain classes of the
Briton, savors Of the dull and glacial; but
there turks within it core of virtue 1t
has grown up like callous shell round two
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
guarantees for the future, are things now tt
be demanded
Napoleon Had Gone
l. y to Elba

The Congress Of Vienna assembled in
September, 1914. The "Corscan Ogre" as
the English called him, was no longer En-
peror of the French, but Emperor of Elba
The King Of Rome, "L'Aiglon," and Maria
Lulsa, his mother, were under the protection
OF the Hapsburg, who had more than once
called upon his "dear son-in-law' for help,
but now felt disgraced by the misalliancc
into which his daughter had been forced
was somewhat disposed to shut her up in
convent, and later winked at her left-hand-
ed marriage with a mere Austrian noble All
the world rejoiced that carnage was at an
end and that the time had come when a
league Of nations would make repetition
of such a calamity unthinkable
Came to Vienna the Gar Alexander OF
Russia, stately in presence liberal in spirit,
by far the noblest Of Napoleon's foes. His
was the dominating figure. Came also the
Prussian King, who had crawled before the
Corsican and had sent the beautiful Louisa.
vainly as it proved, to intercede for him.
Followed the kings of Denmark, of Bavaria.
OF Wurttemberg, and all Of the margrafs,
burgrafs, princes, dukes-all who survived
Of 800 sovereigns and proprietors of states
of the Holy Roman Empire who could beg
or borrow the money with which to make
the journey-all eager to share in the
spoils, to obtain new recognition of their
divine rights as petty tyrants.
Delegates to the congress itself, over
shadowed by imperial and royal majesties
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

1t is as though a man went out and en-
countered, in the street, what he thought
for the moment was himself, and, wounded
In his Gn1our-Eropre, instantly began 10
disparage the appearance of that fellow
Probably community of language rath-
er than Of blood accounts for our sense OF
knship. for common mesas Of expression
cannot but mould thought and feeling into
some kind of unity. One can hardly over
rate the intimacy which a common litera-
ture brings.
THE American and Briton, especially
the British townsman, have kind Of
bone-deep defiance of Fate, q readiness for
anything which may turn up, dry, wry
smile under the blackest sky. and an indi-
vidual way Of looking at things, which
nothing can shake. Americans and Britous
both, we muet and will think for our
selves, and know why we do a thing before
we do It, We have that ngrained respect
for the individual conscience which IL ae
the bottom of all free institutions. Some
years before the war an intelligent ami
cultivated Austrian who had lived long in
England was asked for his opinion Of the
British. In many ways he Said, 4 think
'Oo oAe iuAeiior 10 US; Dul one great thing
have noticed about you which we have
not. You think and act and speak for
yourselves II he had passed those years
IN America instead of in England he must
needs have pronounced the same judgment
OF Americans.
Under the pressure Of this war there rs,
beneath the lip service we pay to democ-
racy disposition TO lose faith in it be-
cause of its undoubted weakness and incon
venlence in struggle with states auto
cratically governed; there is even a sort of
secret reaction to autocracy. On those
lines there Is no way out of a future of
bitter r1valries, chicanery and wars. ana
the probable total failure of our civiiiza-
ton. The only euro which l can Sec lies
In democratising the whole world and re-
moving the present weaknesses and shsm.
OF democracy by education Of the individual
conscience in every country. Coodby 20
that chance If Americans and Britons fail
foui of each other, refuse to pool their
thoughts and hopes and to keen the zen
erai welfare OF mankind in view. They
have got to stand together, not in arrres-
sive and jealous policies but in defence and
championship of the seIf-helpful. xelf-rov-
erninS, live and let live shilosophy se
iifs."
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

Italians, Chinese or any other race, is OF
course, more thar question, but those
peoples are all so different from us that
we are bound, suppose, secretly to con-
slider ourselves superior But between
Americans and ourselves under all differ
ences there is some mysterious deep kim
ship which causes us to doubt, and makes
us irritable as if we were continually be-
ing tickled by that question: Now, am |
really a better man than he? Exactly
what proportion of American blood at this
time of day is British 7 know not; but
enough to make US definitely cousins-al-
ways an awkward relationship. We see in
Americans sort Of image of ourselves;
feel near enough, yet far enough, to criti-
else and carp at the points of difference.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

Matternich, accepting the wtticism that
the Holy Roman Empire Napoleon had de-
stroyed neither holy, Roman nor an
empire" wished to substitute for it "Con-
federation of the Sovereign Princes and
Free Towns of Germany" (Which is what
it really was), with the Hapsburgs ss its
hereditary chiefs.
Prussia, originally the Braulenburg mar
quisate the northern border of Saxony,
wished to grab that kingdom. which, she
pointed out, had remained faithful to Ma
poleon, while she, Prussia, had been glad
to strike the tyrant. The facts, were, of
course. that Prussia had been willing to black
the Corscans boots until such time as she
could knife him in the back; but it was not
the role of Austria to point this out. There
was the King of Rome, living proof of
Austria's former regard for the fallen des-
pot.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

RTONS at times have vast and
pleasant candor about them
selves that reflects the persist
ent desire for truthfulness ami
mating the British spirit We haven't
Always coincided with what literary OBJ
servers like Dickens and Kipling and
bennett and Wells have said about us,
but when the novelists describe their
own England, we turn open ears. Here
Is Galsworthy on both of us, the Eng
lah and ourselves, and he approaches
iesr!essly some Of the things that in IA
Dloody and sacriicial war we have been
Wiling TO forget, some of the peculiari-
ties Of both sides of tho Anglo-Saxon
group that each side has still to under
stand In the other. On that under
Standing, Galsworthy says in "The Yale
heview,' the future happiness Of ma
lions depends more than. ON any other
cause.
have never held a vhole-he&rtcd brief
'0s The British character. There is lot
scod In II, but much which is repellent.
sas kind Of deliberate unsttraetive-
''''' setting out on its journey with the
~0'ds; Take ne or leave me- One may
'"pecs person Of this sort, but it's diff
'''i either to know or to like him. / am
'S'' shat an American officer said recently
British staff officer in q friendly
''ss' 30 we're going to clean up Brother
ssens tosetherl' and the British staff Off
sephed: Really No wonder Ameri-
49, sometimes say: I've got no use for
= Fellows The world Ia consecrate
=. .a'nseness and discovery, and the atti-
01 mind concreted in that Really!
~ "s nnforssvabie, till one remembers
.ass u Ia manner rather than matter
sriton "'"''' u A''e''''" An"
~ ~ huge, still half-dcveloped country,
8 49, every kind Of national type and
~. eomes TO run d new thread into tho
-. .~pesssy Of American life and thought,
8 ss.ss must find II almost Impossible 10
NE life s4 little old island
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

tine ideals suppression OF the ego lest it
trample OH the corns of other people, and
exaltation OF the maxim: Deeds before
words
"a Frenchman, Andre Chevrillon, whose
book, England and the War I commend
to anyone who wishes to understand Brit
lsh peculiarities, used these words in a
recent letter: You English are SO strange
to US French, you SO utterly different
from any other people in the world Yes'
We are lonely race. Deep in our hearts,
| think, We feel that only the American
people could ever really understand us
And being extraordinarily self-conscious,
perverse, and proud, we do our best to
hide from Americans that we have any
such feeling. 1t would distress the aver
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
sw0rthy Compares British and American Manners

where traditions persist generation after
generation without anything to break them
up; where blood remains undoctored by
new strains; demeanor becomes crystal
lized for lack of contrasts, and manner
gets set like a plaster mask. The English
manner of to-day, of what arc called the
classes, is the growth of only q century
or so. There was probably nothing at all
like it in the days Of Elizabeth or even of
Charles the Second. The English manner
still racy when the inhabitants of
Virginia, we are told, sent over to ass
that there might be dispatched to them
some hicrarchicsl assistance for the good
of their souls, and were answered: 'D-n
your souls, grow tobacco!'
"But this British self-censciousness is
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

and highnesses, to say nothing of serenties
and other "hochwollge geboren,' were Met
ternich, the leading Austrian statesman of
his generation; Talleyrand, bishop, terror
list, diplomat, prince by the grace Of
Napoleon but always ready to sell him out
in accordance with the highest patriotic
ideals; Castlereagh much jeered at by the
wits and poets of Britain; Wellington, the
greatest English general Ireland ever pro-
duced; First Hardenburg and Savant Hum
boldt, both devoted to their Prussan master,
and Count Nesselrode, spokesman for the
Russian Gar and a great name in those
days. since immortalzed by pudding
Came none to represent the masses who had
shed their blood and spent their hoardings
to upbuild the empire Of Napoleon; nor
those who had risked their lives and their
savings to destroy it.
1t was vast and notable gathering, given
to relaxing the cares of state with such dl-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By George Bernard Shaw

An anteruicw avith Sir EdwaYd Carson,
the Ulster leader. 1Uas submitted to
George Bernard Sha1v for his CON-
qnent. This Is aO|t1t he Wrote:
"NHIS interview is unintentionally
funny. The interviewer asks
II Sir Edward Carson questions
about modern literature: about
George Moore and George Bernard
Shaw He might as we'll have addressed
such questions to King William III. Sir
Edward Carson has never read "The
Untitled Field; and if by any miracle
he could be induced to read the preface
to "John Bulls Other Island" he would
turn his face to the wall and die.
It must be very difficult for an American
to conceive how ignorant, not merely
Of modern literature, but Of modern po-
litical science, member of the British
House Of Commons can be even after
Il lifetime spent in it, on it's front
benches. Politics there means simply
electioneering as a move in the party
game. Harder still is it to realize that
man may achieve leading position
at the British bar and know absolutely
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

The one thing unon which all were agreed
was that France should be rendered power
less and stripped of every bit of land she
had taken by force of arms.
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versions and feastings and hard drnkings
as Vienna we'll knew how to provide There
was much talk, but the months dragged
along without achievement
"The Congress of Vienna does not walk,
but it dances,' said the Prince de Ligne, the
keenest observer, the wittiest. and the finest
gentleman of all the grand seigneurs Of his
day.
Soon it was not TO walk, but run. Mean
time, for the rosettlement of Europe a
thousand compromises were offered.
Gar Alexander wiser than his fellow
sovercigns, wished to reconstitutc the Pol
ish state.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By J. l. de Becker

FTEE the armistice, which in this
\ case spells the unconditional sur
" render Of the Hun war machine,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-11
King OF Universe"
Is Held In Winnipeg

Winnipeg. Man., Dec. liking
stefan,%% self-styled sovereign of the
universe, has been dethroned and SEN
fenced to one month in the common
Jail here. On the matter-of-fact po-
lice court docket the event is record
ed simply. Stefan Babiz, laborer,
charged with stealing SIS from a man
in Dominion City, Manitoba, for
whom he was working, is convicted
and sentenced to Jail.
Six months ago Stefan was discov-
cred in full enjoyment of his hallucin-
alton concerning his royal status, ex-
tributes Of coins, tobacco, etc..
through the agency of his grand
vizier." The two were digging bitches
for n living somewhere in the pic
turesque wilderness which stretches
east of Winnipeg for a hundred"and
fifty miles to the source of Winni-
pegs new water. supply, Shoal lake.
Stefan wore his crown always, it is
said. The emblem of his Sovereignty
is covered with copper spangles and
once was lined with crimson velvet,
but now IT is lined with plated straw.
Stefan was permitted to keep the
crown even after his arrest for pal
pable theft, but finally the practical
jailer insisted upon being made keep
er of Stefan's regalia.
questioned, Stefan has been able to
keep up his pathetic %pretence for six
months and to exc out a living wher-
ever he went. The provincial au-
thorities will now examine him for
his sanity, and his next home will
be probably the asylum for the in.
sane.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-11
Montana Farmers
Plan Meeting OF
Three Societies;
League UNLIMITED

Great Falls. Mont, Dec. IA pro-
gram is being arranged for a conven-
ton in this city in January Of the
Montana union of the American So
ciety of Equity, the Montana Farm
ers' Union and the Montana State
Grange.
The annual Co-operators' congress,
promoted by the Society of Equity, is
to be held here on the five days be-
ginning January 20 and it is possible
the other bodies will meet stimuli
taneously or Immediately before or
after.
The joint convention Of the three
bodies is held to agree on recommen-
dations for legislation to be submit
ted to the state legislature, which will
sit in Helena during January and Feb
ruary. There are 45 farmers in the
assembly. which numbers 1889 men or
joint ballot. The Great Falls con.
vention, in addition to recommending
rural legislation. will, it is understood
enter into a general discussion of po-
litical and economic topics Of current
Interest.
So far as is known, the Nonpartisan
league has not been invited to attend
this conference, although it had a
part, unof1cially. in the ~Co-operators'
congress last year
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-11
Northwestern Ncus
Spain and we could not have gained

SPoAA oA.u We CouAu AoI nave gained
the. victory.
England has always been our
friend and Is still our friend and even
though there may have been some
things that were not just. as we would
have liked them to be, let us re-
member the many times she has be-
friended us, and to remember that
she fought our battle for us many
long months before we saw fit. to
fight for ourselves and for humanity.
g Walker paid a glowing tribute
have forgotten all else but to serve
humanity and the cause of righteous
ness. From the women of the low
Hest walks to the ladies of highest
social position, they have given their
all and along with their men, have
purged from their past anything that
may not have been just as it should
have been. All honor to this great
nation. and let Vi do all we can to
up through being drawn together in
this great cause" he said.
The chairman then introduced
Hon. F. T. Cuthbert. who is an ora
tor of statewide, reputation and lived
up to his reputation on this occasion.
He traced the relationship of the
British people and the nation of
Great Britain to. the United States
and dispelled the fallacies, spread by
German propaganda with a view to
causing trouble between England and
America. He was given hearty ap-
plause.
All in all it was a most successful
meeting and did much to bring about
that feeling Of comradeship and good
will for our great Ally to- which she
is entitled,