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The Holy Alliance, Again.
'pHIS letter has come to me:
“In your Jeffersonian of April 6th, in your
‘ of the Monroe Doctrine” you state:
* After the rinal defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, at
Waterloo, the kings and the pope, who had
banded themselves together, to destroy the great
Emj eror of the French, formed what they were
pleased to call a “Holy Alliance.”
I wish to say right here that 1 pursued this
“Definition” of the Monroe Doctrine with the
greatest of interest and am pleased to say that it
has been the means of my getting together other
facts, all of which has enabled me to understand
this subject better than I ever did before.
In my search, however, I come across this defi
nition of the “Holy Alliance” in the latest edi
tion of Webster’s New International Dictionary,
a copy of which I have just obtained:
“Holy Alliance: —Hist., an alliance ostensibly
for conserving religion, justice and peace in
Europe, but really for repressing popular tend
encies towards constitutional government, entered
into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of
Austria, and r rederick William 111. of Prussia, at
Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and sub
sequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
except the Pope and the King of England. The
Alliance ended after the revolution of 1830 in
France.’’
There seems to be a clash between your expo
sition of this matter all of which seems mighty
plausible to me, and what Webster has to say
about it, in that your article leads me to believe
this “Alliance” continued until after 1830 while
Webster says it ended at that time, and again,
your article says the Pope was a member of this
“Alliance” and was influential in helping to carry .
out its designs, while Webster says that it was
“joined by all the sovereigns of Europe except
the Pope and the King of England.”
Very truly yours,
W. HENRY GRIFFIN.
( Answer.)
It is almost impossible for the world to ob
tain exact information of any agreement
among Kings and Popes. In many cases, we
are forced to look to the consequences to learn
what the treaty meant.
For example, the famous Treaty of Tilsit,
between Czar Alexander and Napoleon, was
duly published, but Great Britain believed
that there were other articles, kept secret,
and she immediately sent het fleet to Copen
hagen. to bombard that city and seize the
Danish fleet. Historians have suspected that
Talleyrand betrayed Napoleon, and that he
sold the secret to England for an enormous
sum of money.
Now, the Holy Alliance was such a peculiar
affair, so very Sanctimonious on its face, that
no ’one can accept it on its own account of
itself.
When three monarchs combine military
forces; to enforce the righteousness of Christ,
a smell of rats immediately contaminates the
atmosphere, particularly when those monarchs
have recently invaded a Christian land to
re-enthrone a much detested and rejected
King.
What do we find the Holy Alliance doing ?
Let us judge the tree by the fruits.
We see it suppress, barbarously, the anti
papal and anti-monarchal movements in
Naples and Piedmont.
Would such a Romanist bigot as the Em
peror Francis of Austria have sent his troops
to shoot down Italian democrats, if the Holy
Father had not wanted the Holy Alliance to
do it?
When such a Romanist bigot as King
Charles X. of France acted with the Holy
Alliance, and sent an army into Spain to
crush the democratic, anti-papal movement,
was the Holy Father no party to the re-con
quest of a papal paradise?
The Pope reaped vast benefits from the re
actionary butcheries and oppressions of the
Holy Alliance: is it supposable that he was
a passive recipient of these prodigious favors?
The South American republics and the In
dependent Mexico were cruel thorns in the
THE JEFFERSONIAN
flesh of the Holy Father, who hates republics
on principle, and loathes independence of any
kind.
When the Holy Alliance threatened to re
impose the monarchical yoke on South Amer
ica, was the Pope indifferent, passive, non
cooperative?
Tne beneficiaries of the Holy Alliance
were, absolute monarchs and absolute popes.
The Holy Alliance schemed, worked, and
fought to stem the tide of liberalism and in
dependence, both in church and state.
Judge the tree by the fruits. It was half-a
century before Europe could recover from
the baleful efforts of the Holy Alliance: and
Italy was kept under the Pope’s foot by
Austria and France—two of the old members
of the Holy Alliance—until 1870, when lib
eralism finally triumphed.
In the awful European war now raging,
the principles of the Holy Alliance are seen
at work. The Pope is leagued with the
hereditary rulers and despots; and the real
fight is between modern progress —free heads
on free shoulders—against “Divine Right”
usurpers who claim that “God'* commissioned
them to rule the world.
Democrats Flop to the River
Pirates*
'T' HUS far, there is only one of the Republi
-1 can policies which we Democrats have
not carried out; and we are working hard to
make the score complete by carrying out that
one.
We Democrats found that Taft and J. P.
Morgan were unable to pass the Money-trust
bill which Senator Aldrich’s Commission had
framed; and we whirled right in and passed
it, as soon as our Democratic Congress was
sworn in.
Senator Aldrich is dead, and his soul may
possibly be disporting itself in the realms of
bliss; but his Money-trust bill yet lives and
covers us Democrats with the mantle of
glory.
We Democrats found that Roosevelt, Taft
and Co. could not get as many troops and
battleships as they demanded; but now we
have become thoroughly converted, and are
going to give the Corporations and the Ro
man church just as much militarism as we
think the tax-payers will stand.
“Preparedness’’ is our motto, watchword,
slogan, battle-cry and rallying call.
Preparedness, for what?
Preparedness to crush the oppressed mil
lions in America, when they rise in revolt
against the unbearable robbery of the Cor
porations and the Roman church.
We Democrats found that the Republicans
had been unable to spend all the money, and
to slip new 7 taxes upon the common people;
and’therefore we lost no time in emptying
the Treasury and adding one hundred million
dollars to the taxes — of whom?
Not of the millionaires on their net in
comes; not on the corporations that were
making fabulous profits out of the War, but
on the unprivileged plain people, who were
losing hundreds of millions on the War.
We Democrats found that the Republicans
were unable to grant further favors to Ex
press Companies, Railroad Companies and
Gamblers in the products of agriculture; con
sequently. our President asked the Interstate
Commerce. Commission to advance freight
rates, and requested Congress to establish
Government Insurance for cotton gamblers.
By the granting of these favors, we Demo
crats enabled the Southern railroads to clear
25 per cent, net profit, the Eastern roads, 50
per cent., and the Western roads, 90 per cent.
By permitting the Express Companies to
increase their charges, the Parcels Post was
mutilated, and the people were robbed by the
Express Companies to the tune of 400 per
cent., net profit.
While this merry feast of plenty was going
on, we Democrats loaned Government money
at 3 per cent., to the cotton gamblers, and av©
insured'for S7O a bale the identical cotton
that the producer had been forced to sell
at S3O.
But one thing we have not done. We are
now trying to do it.
lon Avill remember that Morgan, Guggen
heim & Co., Avere caught trying to steal the
Government’s coal lands, and water-power
sites; and that Ballinger had to be dismissed
from Taft’s cabinet, in consequence of the
exposures of Louis Glavis and Gifford
Pinchot.
Taft himself was badly smirched in that
scandal, and it helped to beat him.
We Democrats have uoav tackled the job
of giving those vastly valuable power-sites
to private corporations.
In other Avords. Democrats are under
taking to do u'hat Ballinger and Taft at
tempted. but failed at.
As a starter. Ave propose to take $15,000,000
of your public money, to develop Muscle
Shoals, on the Tennessee River, in order that
mere pirates shall get the developed poAver,
and sell it for their own profit.
Senator Oscar Underwood, I am sorry to
say, is the sponsor for this Muscle Shoals
grab.
Dick Ballinger and William Taft must feel
that politics played them a scurvey trick,
when they lost office for trying to do what
Ave Democrats have either done, or are doing!
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