Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-10

longing the existing order, the four
great monarchies of Europe Russia,
Austria, Prussia and England formed
themselves into an alliance to get rid
of Napoleon and to restore the au-
tocracy of the Bourbons.
"For Peace"-"Holy Alliance Pie
tured as Move to Aid
Amity."
Having accomplished this, the SOW
ereigns established their Holy Ali
ance to consolidate their war booty,
to serve as continuing barricade
against the latent forces of democ-
racy, and they proclaimed, just as
they did at Versailles, that it was lin
the interest of peace.
This alliance was conceived in the
brain of Alexander of Russia,
strange character, a peculiar mixture
of duplicity and idealism. He
preached the idea to William Pitt,
foreign minister of Great Britain, who
seized it greedily and whose reply to
Alexander contained, among other
statements, the following:
Through this means, the posses
sion of the respective territories OF
the powers of Europe would be fixed
and recognized. To secure this end,
the powers must engage themselves
reciprocally to maintain and sup
ncf oil off rfS
to disturb and infringe upon their
rights. Such a treaty would endow
Europe with a common law and tend
as much as possible to repress all
enterprises troubling the general
peace"
1t is quite obvious what they were
driving at They were to band them
selves together, as the present League
of Nations does, to make war when
ever necessary to protect their con-
quests from the recent war and to de-
stroy any movements for independ-
ence among their colonies, just as
England is doing in India today.
And it was done in the name of
peace. 1t provided, under the term
"amicable intervention" for the rails
ing of an international army to which
each nation would supply $4,000 men.
Under cover of this Holy Alliance"
which was signed by Russia, Austria,
and Prussia secret treaty was
formed by Austria, Russia and
Great Britain by which they agreed
to employ their joint forces to main
tain the kings on the throne apart
from the agreements made in the
Holy Alliance.
Castlereagh represented Great Brit
ain at the conferences, and Meter
Mich. the dominant statesman of his
time, was there for Austria Pitt
sent Castlereagh a confidential memo
randum, the substance of which was
that Alexander was a good fellow and
meant we'll, but that Castlereagh and
Metternich must get together and
gang" the idealistic Russian. Rip
Van. Wrinkle could well observe that
as Alexander had his Castlereagh
and Metternich, so Woodrow Wilson
had his Clemenceau and Lloyd
George.
Angled for L. S.-~EurOpe Urged
America to- Join
Alliance
Then the European nations sought,
as now, to seduce the United States
into their Holy Alliance, lin the in
terest of peace" And in America, as
now, the pious cry was taken up in
all solemnity and, / suppose, in hon
esty, by those good people who, ig-
noring the history of 1000 years, are
prone to believe that peace is just
around the corner; that anything
labeled peace" must be peace.
On April 9, 1916, the Massachusetts,
Peace Society wrote glowing letter
to Emperor Alexander, Your I'm
perial Majesty" declaring its purpose
ITO disseminate the very principles
avowed in the wonderful Alliance .
The New York Evening Post editorial
lied to the optimistic extent of pro-
claiming that 1.-The members of the
Holy League will establish an inn
perishable claim on the gratitude
of mankind"
Alexander sent private instructions