The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-18

The Great Popular Groundwork In Europe.
Months ago we again and again called atten-
ton to the great and incessant military move
ments that were taking place in Prussia, to her
rapid armament of Wilhelmshafen and her
other northern seaports and to the agitation
that seemed to be spreading among the people
not only of Germany, but of France, Italy and
spain. Then came the Spanish Instructions
III valencia and elsewhere, the Italian out
breaks at Milan, Padua. &C., and tho tremen-
dous scenes that accompanied the progress
ana the declaration of the psc6iscitun in the
French empire. But these disturbances were.
one by one, suppressed, and the SNUG authori-
ties who take politics, statesmanship. strategy
and international law by inhalation. probably.
without knowing A from lizard about them
said in England and America that things were
''all right" But in spite Of this dictum
given with all that overweening positiveness
which ia the peculiar and inseparable accom-
paniment of the densest ignorance. trade
strikes became more numerous than
ever, and the workingmen, associated in
powerful bodies and cooperating all over
Europe without regard to difference of nation
ality, stepped farther and farther to the front,
until at last they occupied the entire fore
ground. Just before the Spanish throne ques-
ton monopOlized the attention Of Europe all
eyes were turned upon the investigation in
progress at Paris concerning the so-stylcd
international Society of Workingmen."
Then, like successive thunder claps following
close upon each other, came the French quar-
rel with Prussia, the declaration OF war, the
terrible overthrow of the French armies and
the revelation OF vast revolutionary move
ment beneath the surface from Paris to Naples.
We now have the scene suddenly revealed
amid the smoke and din of contending
empires, by the lurid light of deadly artillery.
The desolated iresides the heaped up slain;
the corn left ungathered in the fields; the
forced contributions of money and blood the
crowded hospitals the blood, the hunger, the
confusion, the despair and death of thousands
affecting millions upon millions more of inno-
cent toilers, in order that ruthless personal
ambition and the Moloch of mill
tary pride may Stake their Internal
thirst for what they dare msname
''glory," have filed the cup of bitterness to
overlooking. Patience among the people has
had its perfect work and the hour of rectiaoa-
ton is at hand. Reverently we hear voice
rising far above the roar of those awful battle
fields in France, where 80 much manliness and
valor are cut down like weeds-a voice that
seems to borrow the words of the prophet Of
old-'sPrepare the way; take up the Stun
bling block out of the way of my people,
This morning, while these lines are read, at
Paris, Madrid, Florence, Rome, Vienna, ay,
even Berlin and the farther cities of the North,
the great groundswell Of the popular ocean
beats high and heavily against the barriers
that have so long restrained 1t. The currents
from which the tocsin has so often sounded
out over listening Europe before. The inter-
national tricolor is ready to leap from the tow
ers of Notre Dame to every spire between
Hamburg and Palermo, amid the accamations
of dozen nationalities shouting, in hundred
dialects, Stat ct ummse ga7nI" (''Let it go
round!) with justice, humanity, Christian
forbearance and moderation for its guides and
true liberty for its respondent star, until
civilization shall mean something far loftier
and more blessed than the heightened capacity
to infict universal woe, and men shall be made
rulers, not through intellect alone, but only
through the greatness Of their love to God
and to their fellow man.
DR.. NEWMAN ON POLYaAMY.-Dr. New
mans sermon against polygamy, which he
preached few Sundays ago in the Methodist
meeting house in Salt Lake City, is published
in full elsewhere in our columns to-day. The
argument is a complete refutation of all the
propositions heretofore advanced by Orson
Pratt or the other Mormon leaders, and is 80
bold and outspoken in its denunciation of tho
twin relics of barbarism that 1t will probably
goad Brigham Young or some of his disciples
into reply, Notwithstanding the denial made
by the Mormon bishops Of any intention to
challenge DR.. Newman to the discussion.
Whatever effect the sermon Of DR..
Newman may have in the matter OF converts