Thanks! I had to read some newspapers of the era to understand their style, feminist publications were interesting as well, and everyone from the left to the right were very critical of liberals ( or "afrancesados"
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It is the natural way of things.Thanks! I had to read some newspapers of the era to understand their style, feminist publications were interesting as well, and everyone from the left to the right were very critical of liberals ( or "afrancesados"
Indipendensa Piemontèisa #1
I love that in this world France is still the evil empire that everyone in europe bashes. Germany is just a cute sideshow.
I am thinking of starting tikety book articles today unless theres a sunday update coming?
Also I hope we do get a letter to the editor page too for the newspapers. I think that would be really good. Maybe on the update from Pip collecting the last weeks worth, at least eventually?
Also I hope we do get a letter to the editor page too for the newspapers. I think that would be really good. Maybe on the update from Pip collecting the last weeks worth, at least eventually?
My apologies for failing to comment thus far, as is so often the way when you start a project everything else starts happening. I am delighted to see so many varied papers starting up and such a wide range of global voices, far better than I had expected or hoped for.
There will be a Sunday update coming, should be a post later this evenign with a link to the new save and any interesting details in a SPOILER tag.
Letters to the Editor is something I'd like to see if there is interest. I think we start with an all the letters page posted by me mid update cycle (i.e. the posted on the weekend in between new saves). If anyone is really keen on getting their letter directly posted in a 'paper' drop me and the 'editor' of the paper a PM and I'll chat to the mods about how that might work.
And at the risk of repeating myself any such Letters should be sent to me by PM before being posted. That is a condition imposed by the Forum Mods when I got this project approved, so be sure and comply with it.
There will be a Sunday update coming, should be a post later this evenign with a link to the new save and any interesting details in a SPOILER tag.
Letters to the Editor is something I'd like to see if there is interest. I think we start with an all the letters page posted by me mid update cycle (i.e. the posted on the weekend in between new saves). If anyone is really keen on getting their letter directly posted in a 'paper' drop me and the 'editor' of the paper a PM and I'll chat to the mods about how that might work.
And at the risk of repeating myself any such Letters should be sent to me by PM before being posted. That is a condition imposed by the Forum Mods when I got this project approved, so be sure and comply with it.
Second Update and History
Second Save;
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i5BcF3VmugF6niJHUg28gBeWNU_ImBSE
I took the game up to the end of July 1889. I was trying to balance "enough things to write about" with "not too large a gap", this seemed about right but please speak up if you feel a different interval would be better next time.
For those who need to know roughly what has happened, details hidden below;
EDIT: Fixed to get the decade right, it is of course the Summer of 1889 not 1899. Thanks to @coz1 for spotting this minor issue.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i5BcF3VmugF6niJHUg28gBeWNU_ImBSE
I took the game up to the end of July 1889. I was trying to balance "enough things to write about" with "not too large a gap", this seemed about right but please speak up if you feel a different interval would be better next time.
For those who need to know roughly what has happened, details hidden below;
The Mini Financial Crisis of April 1889 saw New Zealand, Venezuela, Indore and USCA all go bankrupt. The USCA then had an uprising of San Salvadorean Nationalist Rebels it is struggling to put down.
The Bulgarian Crisis saw most of the Great Powers pick a side over April. As of end of June it is;
Germany, UK and CSA (backing Bulgaria) vs France, Belgium and Japan (backing Ottomans). ~3 months till that war kicks off.
The ongoing South American War ended with Ecuador winning and annexing Pastaza from Peru (doubling the size of Ecuador) and Colombia taking Zulia from Venezula (That's Maracibo and related province). Of note Colombia is a slave state and the flag of Absolute Monarchist Uruguay is quite dazzling.
27th April saw a Communist Revolution in Modena. Still not been invaded by a near rival, but that is inevitable.
May-June; France deployed a few armies to West Africa to finally stamp out all those Communist rebels. Rebels all killed but occupying the provinces will take a while.
June-July - Netherlands start justifying on Aceh and Spain justifying on Algeria.
June - France dragged Ethiopia into it's Sphere.
June - Citizens Guard rebels all over Austro-Hungary, but that was not enough to save Russia;
28th July - Russia offers peace and Austro-Hungary accepts. Poland-Lithuania gets Kiev and Minsk (and a weird border), Scandinavia grabs Finland (North and South) while Austro-Hungary gets Lebanon and some Aegean Islands.
The Bulgarian Crisis saw most of the Great Powers pick a side over April. As of end of June it is;
Germany, UK and CSA (backing Bulgaria) vs France, Belgium and Japan (backing Ottomans). ~3 months till that war kicks off.
The ongoing South American War ended with Ecuador winning and annexing Pastaza from Peru (doubling the size of Ecuador) and Colombia taking Zulia from Venezula (That's Maracibo and related province). Of note Colombia is a slave state and the flag of Absolute Monarchist Uruguay is quite dazzling.
27th April saw a Communist Revolution in Modena. Still not been invaded by a near rival, but that is inevitable.
May-June; France deployed a few armies to West Africa to finally stamp out all those Communist rebels. Rebels all killed but occupying the provinces will take a while.
June-July - Netherlands start justifying on Aceh and Spain justifying on Algeria.
June - France dragged Ethiopia into it's Sphere.
June - Citizens Guard rebels all over Austro-Hungary, but that was not enough to save Russia;
28th July - Russia offers peace and Austro-Hungary accepts. Poland-Lithuania gets Kiev and Minsk (and a weird border), Scandinavia grabs Finland (North and South) while Austro-Hungary gets Lebanon and some Aegean Islands.
EDIT: Fixed to get the decade right, it is of course the Summer of 1889 not 1899. Thanks to @coz1 for spotting this minor issue.
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Oh man, the papers are going to have a field day.
So no papers getting into fights with other papers aside from 'anon' editor letters? This could prove hilarious later on if the various communists start infighting.
I'll be honest, this entire project is worth it to see you try and summarise Tikety Boo's philosophy and stance. Everyone go take a look.
Are you certain that is the right save linked above, Pip? I opened it and it is titled Summer 89.v2 and the save suggests the last election in the CSA was 1886.7.10 which seems odd if it's supposed to be 1899.
My fault for misplacing a decade.
I took the game to Summer of 1889 and the save matches that date, I just typed the wrong date in the update post. All fixed now. The information in the spoiler below may be of use to you when considering your next issue;
Those are "Citizens Guard" rebels infesting the USA, about 157k of them. They are flagged as 'Anarcho-Liberal' which ties to the US Radical Party. Somewhat ironically there is also an election underway in the USA due to end 1st January 1890. The Liberal (Republican) party look poised to take control from the Conservative (Democratic) Party. If they survive that long without a revolution...
I know. The Financial Crisis bit is calling to me even though I've lots of other things I'm supposed to be writing, I've registered a paper on the Shared list in the hope I get time to actually write something about it.
LE LIBERTAIRE #1
LE LIBERTAIRE
Journal du Monde Libéré
NUMÉRO 1—JUILLET 1889
Journal du Monde Libéré
NUMÉRO 1—JUILLET 1889
The tumult to have afflicted France over these past decades has seen no end to the churn of men scrambling to wrest control of the state. I am thirty-six years of age. During my brief life on this earth so far, I have seen war, famine, depression and disease. My father was killed in the first German War when I was six years old, and by the time of the second a decade later I had been through more petty means of employment than most will see in a lifetime. While France rose to the moment of her highest triumph since that tin-pot caesar Bonaparte, neither I nor anyone around me saw anything other than destitution. Meanwhile, the new men of the bourgeoisie grew fat off their many trophies and emoluments, gorging on the rich carcass of the state with the intensity and savagery of paupers.
Our lives to these men are immaterial. We do not figure in their parlour games of statecraft. In 1882, in the aftermath of one too many a disastrous war, the bourgeoisie did away with their monarch in one desperate act of ingratitude. The state as it was could not contain the raw ambition that drove their greed from barrier to barrier, bloating it to new and ever unpalatable excesses. Thus the Crown was discarded, and the bourgeoisie anointed itself King. So anointed, King Capital ruled untroubled over a domain ravaged and hurting from decades of war – untroubled by this suffering, seeing not the pain of loss but only absence into which he might further drive his presence.
But three years into his reign, King Capital was toppled in turn, and the ferocity with which the bourgeoisie fought to mould the state in their image only grew worse. Climbing from the pit of Depression, this new regime cloaked itself in the regalia of the First Revolution. Thus it was anointed the killer of the Ancien Régime, of which King Capital had merely been the final, mutant representative. But their promise, too, rang false. And accompanying the cries of Liberté! came the entrenchment of the state apparatus: the military, that last refuge of the desperate poor; the factories, those prisons rebuilt as houses of production; and the prisons themselves, for the consignment of those who cannot be contained by other means. There is no liberty while humanity is bound without question to the mastery of any state, just as there is no state whose final aim, when all other pretensions are discredited, is the accumulation of ever greater sums of capital.
Thus we must return to the power of the worker, the poor and the imprisoned. The Capitalists themselves expose how shaky it lies, the ground upon which they choose to build their empires. War splits open their petty states and Depression shakes them at the very foundations. In these gaps the bourgeoisie play their games of statecraft, crafting the means by which they will continue to oppress and contain us as they grow ever richer. Yet they are weak and they grow complacent.
We will not be tricked by false glimmers of democracy – the elections with which the bourgeoisie claim so benevolently to furnish us; the representatives, drawn from their own class, whom they appoint to plead our cases in their court. The power for our liberation as workers and as humankind rests within ourselves. For every member of the gentry in France there are at this moment fifty men bound to till his land. For every factory owner there are nearly two-thousand men and women employed to work his machines. The power rests with us; we need only wake up to this fact! United and organised, the power of the workers will be invincible. Today, like every day, is the first new dawn in the fight to reclaim what is ours by right: the fulfilment of each and every one of our needs. As was written by Marx: We have nothing to lose but our chains! We have a world to win!
Did @DensleyBlair write an editorial for his own AAR and post it in this one?
Seriously though, an excellent call to action
Seriously though, an excellent call to action
Did @DensleyBlair write an editorial for his own AAR and post it in this one?
Seriously though, an excellent call to action
flash forward a few weeks when I reveal the author to be one Monsieur A. J. Cuisinier
Dominion Review #2
Dominion Review
Editorial by the Founder
Dear friends – our writers have done fine work detailing the events of the summer and happy am I to let them. The men in Richmond continue to eschew sound practice even as anarchists press our borders in every way. President Pettigrew holds himself tightly to himself and the soundings from the Jackson campaign are no more reassuring. However, some few good men are making a voice heard and it is astounding to me that wiser heads are prevailing. Good for us all that they do!
I spoke to my sweet wife this very morning and never think to have seen her so happy and pleased. A man does emerge in the form of Ambrose P. Hill, or as we used to call him, Little Powell. While President Pettigrew looks to spread our influence throughout the world and ignore the very real threat over our border, and Jackson campaigns to find detente with the north and their President Cleveland now running for his second term, it is encouraging to hear the words flowing from Mr. Hill.
Let us be certain – the crises in Europe is a very real and true thing. Empires the world over have been built for centuries and we, of all peoples, should rejoice when others gain their freedom so long desired. Most especially in this day and age when this liberalism takes form in this pernicious parlance of communism and anarchy. One need only look across our northern border (and perhaps even the south) to see these so called citizen guards that infect every aspect of human life. We must maintain a love for our northern cousins, enemy though they may be. And yet it is said that a so called Republican will next be in power to the north. What is that and who may they be? The form takes shape in one William Sherman and I am told, this man does make time with these citizen guards. He does preach anarchy and total war. In other words...a revolution, my friends. Is that a thing we wish in our own midst? I think not.
And yet, our Congress does look away from that and instead wishes to support what happens a world far from us. Let us see what occurs in this distant place and hope that the peoples of Bulgaria may find their desire of freedom as we have found here, but should we give away our hard earned nation merely to assist another and risk everything that we have built? In this election year, I must remain firm and remind our readers. An election of Pettigrew for a second term would be further ruin to our great country. A nomination and possible election of Jackson would be even more disastrous as it appears that he links in thought with our northern neighbor, Mr. Sherman. The only hope for our party and our nation is to support Hill for he is the only one that understands the perils that face us daily.
It is encouraging that members of Congress such as Mr. Barrow from Georgia and Mr. Chilton of Texas already support Mr. Hill. And yet our populist Congress remains at the will of their constituents and will do and say whatever is needed to find reelection. In this time, more than ever before, we must continue to stand and say No! No to anarchists and their pestilent ideology. No to this liberalism that infects all of society from the very lowest of the low all the way to the halls of power, north and south. And no to a cause, no matter how righteous, that would take good men from these shores where they are most needed at the moment and send them halfway across the world and away from our fine ladies and children.
Let this Bulgarian peoples find their freedom if they are able, but it is instructive that this effort is challenged by ancient enemies. France, Germany, the United Kingdom…no allies of this country, my friends. This is no time to take chance and make effort alongside those that are foes or to stand alongside those that would be ally when they are not. No, my friends, I say to you – Hill, Hill, Hill! Place your voice behind him! Though he be aged and still holds his wound from our struggle so many years ago, I can think of no other man to lead us through this crises. One may not know how many years I have left to me, but I wish to die in a free Confederacy and knowing that our peoples are safe and secure. I fought for nothing less and governed in the same manner. Put not your faith in false promise or the radical image of perfect future away from the now when we all know that the tried and true is what has worked and will continue to work when good men lead. That good man is Hill and I know it.
- Robert Edward Lee is the founder of Dominion Review. Former three term President of the Confederate States of America and General of the Armies from 1859 to 1879.
Vaderland #2
The Imperial Financial Journal #1
The Imperial Financial Journal
The value of unvarnished truth outshines even the finest diamond
On Recent International Events
As the dust settles after the recent Financial Imbroglio, we at the Imperial Financial Journal have taken it upon ourselves to delve into the matter and determine what lessons, if any, may be learnt to the advantage of the diligent investor. It soon became apparent from our investigations that there was no grand narrative or complex nexus to unravel, instead, to paraphrase Tolstoy, each of the unhappy nations went unhappily bankrupt in it's own way. Our colleague Raleigh will be discussing the sad case of the Dominion of New Zealand later, so we will concern ourselves with the Republic of Venezuela, the Princely State of Indore and the elaborately named Federal Republic of the United States of Central America.The value of unvarnished truth outshines even the finest diamond
On Recent International Events
The case of Venezuela is the most straightforward, the strains of fighting both the Third War of the Pacific and the Pastaza War overwhelmed the limited capacity of the economy, forcing the government into unsustainable borrowing. The disastrous ending to those wars, with Venezuela forced to cede the Zulia province to Colombia along with fully half of it's population and a similar portion of it's already meagre industrial base, leave us by no means persuaded that this is the last bankruptcy that will befall the country. We also note with distaste that the Republic continues to tolerate the peculiar institution of slavery and, while we do not resile from our editorial stance of not taking political positions within these pages, we reiterate that any gentlemen must carefully examine his conscience carefully before committing his capital to an investment in such a morally dubious state. If there is an additional lessons that can be drawn from this, we would suggest it is to reinforce the risks of investing in areas of conflict. For those who are still drawn to attempt to seek profit from the continuation of diplomacy by other means, we note that the suppliers of armaments are often the only ones to emerge from a conflict in an more prosperous state than they started. Accordingly the martially inclined investor is advised to consider deploying his capital with Vickers, Sons & Partners, the Elswick Ordnance Company and similar industrial concerns.
Turning to their near neighbour in Central America we see the consequences of a tragic morality tale reaching it's inevitable dénouement. The Federal Republic of the United States of Central America had been something of a rising regional power, obeying the wisdom of this columns namesake and inspiration they had found their comparative advantage in the the manufacture of superior wines and spirits; it is a most parochial gentlemen indeed who has not at least sampled a Honduran 'La Ceiba' or the notorious Nicaraguan Coyol. This prosperous endeavour was supported by a firm commitment to Free Trade and thus the country appeared set fair for economic success, this beneficial situation was cruelly curtailed by the actions of the Partido Conservador who lamentably conceded to the demands of the Temperance League. This reactionary minority forced the closure of all large scale distilling and fermentation operations, leaving only a few artisanal operations to attempt to scrape a living under official disapproval. The resulting spiral downward of the economy was as predictable as it was avoidable and it is to be hoped that the government and people of that nation return to the liberal values that had brought them such success. Certainly we cannot see our way to advising anyone but the most risk taking investor to consider the next issue of consols from the Federal Republic until the temperance matter is addressed.
Finally we consider the Princely State of Indore where once again we see the dead hand of Mars as a proximate cause of the issues that afflicted the fiscal health of the state. Despite the protection and assurance that came from being a 19-gun salute state, His Highness Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar II persisted in maintaining a standing army. While we would not presume to comment on the martial quality of the Indore Dragoons we do note that it is unclear of the military value of a single brigade when the nearby British Army of Calcutta alone is some 40,000 men strong. In any event the cost of maintaining these dragoons soon became the single largest expense for the Prince, exceeding the sums spend on education and administration combined and taking some 80% of his total tax revenue. It is clear from our conversations with the brokers of Threadneedle Street that this situation was exacerbated by the actions of several London based financiers, for these gentlemen these events were a mechanism to speculate upon the Doctrine of Lapse. The proposition was that when the Maharaja demonstrated his inability to rule, at least from a fiscal perspective, the British government would use this long standing right to annex Indore and, in the process, exchange the speculators cheaply acquired Princely State bonds for solid British government Guilts. That this did not occur is a valuable reminder that, while all investments that have a political element are uncertain matters, speculation on the Byzantine world of Raj politics is only for the most hardened of risk seekers.
Ricardo
Nafir Suriyya #2
(I have to say, quarantine is a good motivator to write and research AARticles. Sorry mine aren't nicely formatted! Translations of German and Hungarian through Google Translate. Please let me know if they're incorrect!)
Der Trompetenruf von Syrien -
A Szíriai Trombitahívás
Nafir Suriyya
(E. von der Tann, B. Daouk, 1889, Issue #2)
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1. All householders are required to quarter soldiers if asked to do so, and to give them all appropriate care and treatment.
2. A curfew will be instituted in all the major cities of Greater Lebanon at dusk. Failure to comply will be dealt with harshly. Exceptions may be made in special cases. To apply for a special exemption, petition the Governorate at 3 Sassine Square, Achrafieh, Beirut.
3. All local organizations, magistracies, and constabularies of the illegitimate Russian occupation are hereby dissolved and all resources of the same considered property of the Empire of Austria-Hungary. All members of such organizations must report to the said Governorate by September 12th or face potential imprisonment.
4. Military justice will be in effect in the entirety of the Duchy until such time as is deemed unnecessary.
5. Spreaders of panic, insurrection, or speculation will be punished harshly. We ask for a prevailing spirit of calm at this difficult time.
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These orders rendered in the name of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty Franz Joseph I, by the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria;
King of Jerusalem, etc.;
Archduke of Austria;
Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow;
Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukovina;
Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia;
Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Ragusa, and Zara;
Duke of Greater Lebanon;
Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca;
Prince of Trent and Brixen;
Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria;
Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc.;
Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro, and of the Windic March;
Grand Voivode of the Voivodeship of Serbia;
etc. etc.
This day 26th July 1889,
Anton von Gablenz, Militärgouverneur von Großer Libanon
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Indipendensa Piemontèisa #2
I realize I have not written anything this time around. Life is hectic with all that happens right now. I will try to write something soon, or next time around. My own AAR is prewritten already for a few chapters more, so that one is easier to get out...