The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-19
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NEw YoRk, July Is.
A Tribune editorial says: The declara-
ton of war threatened on account of the
nomination Of Prince Leopold for tho
throne of Spain has at last been made
on the preteXt of ineiyilty 10 the French
Ambassador at Berlin. The difficulty
on the part of France has been from The
FIRST fraudulent quarrel. 1t Il hitting 1t
shonld eliminate in a diplomatic false
hood so gross that the world can hardly
feel seriously angry Al it. War between
France and Prussia has been inevitable
ever since the reorganization of Ger
many The Bonaparte dynasty can
maintain itself only by tickling the
French passion for glory. and all Europe
has ieit thnt Napoleon must soon make
some desperate movement to recover the
prestige he lost during tho seven weeks
war Of 1866. and the disastrous expert
ments OF the Latin Empire in Mexico.
The war, we suppose, will be n severe
one though it is not likely 10 De long.
A few weeks more will probably decide
whether Prussia shall retain her prece-
denee. or the first place hereafter belong
to France. SO fan as We can judge from
statistical returns, the two Powers are
almost evenly matched but the victory
will remain with that one whose reserves
can be the more readily mobllized, and
whose organization will work the moro
perfectly in practice.
Prussia j. not far from France ON sea,
and il is doubtful il any serious engage
ment takes place on water. The brunt
Of tho campaign will be borne ON the
Rhine. in the midst Of ihat network Of
fortresses upon which the military
leaders Of many generations have oX-
pended their ingenuity Here Prussia
has the advantage Of previous posses
sion and the most minute acquaintance
with the County for years Her Off
Gers have travcrsed the provinces back
and forth her soldiers have marched
over MI the roa1s-We might almost say
have drilled IN all the iields-ever since
the first threatening Of war. She has
been concentrating her armies ia these
strong places, and when the clash Of bat
tie comes she will have in her favor al
most every aid which military science
has devised for defending with force.
She viii have patriotic and enthusiastic
people supporting, and Just cause 70
give her confidence. ffom present APP
peaance, il Would seeu the odds arc IN
her favor; bnt how well she has pre-
served the admirable organization which
gave her such superiority IN 1866, Is a
question which can be answered only
hy tho test Of war.
4 World editorial says Both the
great Powers are ROW committed to this
wager Of battle destined, We think, to
be the greatest, IN many particulars,
which even our timeg--so 50 terribly splen-
did with shocks Of human passion aud Of
national power have known. They
have many grave, and various claims
upon tie sympathies of the people OF
America. The war comes at last in a
form aud under conditions which seem
to us to Justify the hope that its scope
may be limited, so far as the scope of
such war can be, by a wise diplomatic
regard to the permanent pacific interest
of the Nations, rather than the eYanes-
cent aud provocative plottings Of dynas-
ties. The Government of Prussia, under
King William, has gradually become of
late years the antoerat Of Europe. As
such it has repeatedly dealt with grave
I public questions IN a spirit more nearly
/ akin to that 10y which tue unfortunate
I Car Nicholas brought down upon him
/ self and empire the calami;ies of crime
4 and war than to the Just and deliberate
/ temper felt by the free Nations of our
time, that public questions should be de-
bated and decided
A Tribune correspondent telegaphs
/ that not a word Of Theirs remarkable
speech was allowed to reach England by
There has been a systematic scheme
ahoat 10 deceive Europe about public
opinion in France respecting the war,
and deceive France ahont the opinion oi
Europe.
kilograms to English papers last weel,
haye misrepresented the tone Of tho
French Independent Press, and sup
pressed manifestations against the war.
This Press censorship was never more
active and unscrupulous, in spite Of the
first iayoring
The English Press. now, without any
exception, charges France with the re-
sponsibility. II appears that after
Grammont ; declaration demand was
mndo for the dispatches, and Olivier,
after refusing TO give them. was com.
PEELED 10 admit that France had finally
declared war ON account Of Pfussian
dispatch communicating 10 European
courts the Kings refusal to receive the
French Ambassador; and that this dis
patch. thus made the basis Of war, had
not been seen by any French Minister
the Government had in fact declared
war on what purported 10 be an abstract
Of that dispatch, supplied 10y tw'
French spies whose names were with
held.