The Keota news., 1919-10-10
EMPEROR NO MORE
Name Of Roman Dignitary Has
Finally Disappeared.
Title Never Has Meant What Il Once
0id-Effeets Of the French Rsvo.
lution and Domination Of
Napoleon.

The effects Of the French revolution
and the domination Of Napoleon wcrc
felt more strongly by Germany than
by any other nation with the exception
Of France. writes Albert Barrett
Sayres. Although the changes In Italy
were In themselves great. Italy had
been partitioncd over and over agnin.
hut never before had Germany had
this experience Of falling under Q for.
eIgn yoke.
II was during this period that the
old order Of things nrd the old ideas
which had been held 80 long came al.
together to mn end. The Roman EN-.
pirc and the kingdom Of Germany were
now abolished even In name. Germany
lost all her lands west Of the Rhine.
and Austria lost the Ncthcrlnnda
Furthermore. Napoleon called himself
protector of the lands in Germany he
didn't take.
As soon rs Napoleon hcenn to call
himself emperor Of the French. the
king Of Hungary and archdukc Of Aus
irin being the cmpcr"r.cicct OF the Ro-
mans. wished to distinguish between
his ancient title and the new title
inkcn by the "upstnrt." So he called
himself hereditary emperor OF Aus
trin.. In short time his 'cmpire" and
title came to m end.
Many Of the German princes had
Joined Napoleon. They began to a.
pirc for higher titles than had been
theirs. So they called themselves king
Of Bavaria. king Of Wurttembcrg. and
10 forth. They then made themselves
Into the confederation Of the Rhine.
which wus not under Napolcon's pro-
lection. and they increased their pos'
sessions much Ms they wished.
This took place in 1903. and In the
same year the Austrian emperor Tor
mnlly resigned his title Of Roman en-
pcror. and no Roman emperor hns
since been chosen. Thus for the hrst
time since the Christian era begun
there wns no Roman emperor. The
Roman empire hnd In namc-ns well
ms In rcnliiy-comc to nm end at last.
By his rise from nm humble resident
Of Corsica 10 the position Of emperor
Of the French and the virtual mas
tership Of western Europe. Napoleon
destroyed the last lingering superSti'
tion about the Roman empire. we
must add this good thing to the many
others Napoleon accomplished. One
Of the causes Of war was thus swept
away.
OF course. when Napoleon fell. even
his claim to the Kingdom Of Italy.
which he had managed to enforce for
many years. fell also. lie had previ'
ously agreed that nftcr his time ltn'y
should not he Joined with France. 40
wc see that even he felt that new
order Of things was about to dawn
IN Europe. 1tnly. Of course. wns the
second Kingdom Of the old Roman en-
pirc.
The third kingdom OF that ancient
order wns the kingdom Of Burgundy
This was not wholly forgotten. for
,,I of II was either a part Of France
or under French control as part OF
switzcrlnnd. And 80 the last Of the
ancient pnrts Of the Roman empire
Ind disappeared. Thus we sec how
tho name Of emperor and even the
old names Of the Kingdoms that once
Ind comprised the Roman empire were
now forgotten.
Rut the simple name emperor has
not disappeared. It wns still retained
bv the man who cnlled himself en-
neror of Austria. And his successors
hnye since done the same thing.
other rulers Of other states have