The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-16

tisns-The Necessity q War Between che
Military hlonarchies.
Our Vienna correspondent in an interesting
letter which we publish in another column, gives
us the Austrian view Of the questions that now
agtate Europe and draws the conclusion that
Louis Napoleon, in order to further his own
ends, or to meet the exigencies of his situation,
is bent upon war
The revelations of this letter are remarkable.
from the fact that they lay bare causes and in
trigues in regard to which the French and Eng
lish press are silent. 1t would seem that since
the death of Nicholas the views of the Gear as to
the state of Europe have been essentially modi-
fed. In his view Austria, and not TUrkey, is
'the sick man." and the proposition to divide
his effects has not been made to unwilling EGG
land, but to gladly consenting France and Sardi-
MIA. The statesmen of Austria confidently be-
lieve that before the peace Of Paris was arranged
secret treaty was negotiated between Russia,
France and Sardinia, by which Austria was to
be virtually dismembered. Russia takes the five
millions of Austrian Sclaves with their territory;
Sardinia annexes LombardoV enetia; and France
drives the Bourbon remnant out of Italy dis
mantling at the same time the only military mon
archy capable of disputing with her the rule of
the Continent.
There is verisimilitude in these statements
that render them worthy Of consideration on this
side of the Atlantic. They prove, when taken in
connection with other revelations of English
court intrigues and Napoleonic schemes which
we have frequently laid bare, how selfish and
how active are the dynastic schemes which agi-
tate Europe The Coburg interest in England;
the Napoleonic family, marshalled in France by
the keenest and most INSCRIPTIONS brain in Eu-
rope; the worn-out house of Hapsburg govern
ing Austria and Italy; and the Romanof, rising,
giantlike over Eastern Europe and Northern
Asia-these are the governing families of the
greater portion of the civilized world, training
! and arming the most brutal class of the popula-
| ton to keep all others down, and suppressing
every free emotion, every rising aspiration of en-.
lightened manhood. Their busy strife with each
other, bounding the nations on to war, for the
purpose of despoiling each other and increasing
their own tributary millisns, is an instructive
commentary upon their venal vituperation of
American extension, where each new annexation
elevates young State to the dignity and free.
dom of selfgovernment, under the fraternal qua
rantee of all.
Our Vienna correspondent, however, lays bare
the cancer that is eating into the vitality of all
these selfish dynasties. The necessity of main
tanning millions Of brutal soldiers, for the pur-
pose of keeping the people down and prosecuting
their schemes against each other, is working out
the final result From 1916 to l84S, the era of
peace in Europe, the national debt of Austria
increased from 300,0O00O0 to 1,5OO,OOO,OOO
| forms, or fvefold since then it has risen to
OO,OOO,OOO, and she is bankrupt at that. A
like state of things exists in France, and with
| nearly every other Continental Power. The
famous aotu quo established by the treaty of vi
emma in 1915 could not be maintained by any
other means. Contending military monarchies
were balanced against each other, and the civil
| lied world was cut up to suit few thieving dy-
nasties. But other laws than treaties drawn with
| the sword govern the growth of civilization and
they have rendered impossible the satu quo of
Vienna. The world has outgrown the treaties of
1915, and two of the great military monarchies-
France and Austria-are about to contend
for the mastery Two others, of equal proper
tions, are urging them on, caring very little
which destroys the other. If one sinks, three
only are left; and if two are destroyed then the
Coburg and the Romanoff only remain.
England pretends to desire peace: but no |
Power knows better than she the fallacy of such
a hope. The popular mind of England has been
skilfully played on by Louis Napoleon now, lust |
as IT was before the Russian war, and il is per |
fectly willing to see Austria drubbcd. She NAV |
not be drawn into the conflict, as is also the case
with Russia, but she does not wish to see it |
stopped Louis Napoleon is playing the same |
chord that Palmerston played upon so many
years, in which he gained much popular applause
lie was the liberal, par excellence, out of England
Just as Louis Napoleon now is beyond the confines
ofFrance; and both are in fact perfect Marplots for
reform both at home and abroad. John Bull has
been gulled by these humbugs, and to-day be-
lieves in the Palmerstonian policy and promises
as strongly as ever.
The Continental war is therefore, double me-
cessity. Growing military monarchies must con-
tend for the mastership on the one hand and on
the other endeavor to avert the coming upheay- |
ing of the overtaxcd multitudes, by converting
their ire into international hatreds. The mighty
mass ofeach national debt must be extended over |
greater space Of territory, Or give way to the |
extension of its antagonists. European ministers |
Of finance are now shining it among the Jews
to find the means of averting complete bank
ruptcy and break up. But all these struggles |
only tend to hasten the coming of the true end,
which is the prevalence in Europe of the Ameri-
can theory: that political science must be subor-
dinate to and guided by social dcvelopement.
This theory will tear down all the old and costly
paraphernaia of kingcraft, erase the barriers be-
tween producers and consumers destroy the ter
ritorial divisions of dynastc treaties, and recon-