New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-28

not be without grest blessings - civilization However
remarkable and terrbIe In IL oveey military sspees
tho campaign Of 1910 has beso chieay mononsous IN
bensaoiai in tho political changes u has wrought In
Frsnce u has broken forever tho powef Of ono Of NO
lesst progressive, and tho mos> nischisvoss snd
belIiseront people Of Europe, and she ono
which has most disturbed tho general poece fof
sgss In Germany II has suddenly elevated 70 the POSI-
ton Of Arbter Of Europe tho most posoei" sna
Ito Of races has reduced from tho nrst position snas
ono OF tho Great Powers most positively committed 70
tho false policy that national prosperity depended on
the misfortunes OF fits neighbors and that TO emDarsss
other Powers snd TO contract othcr influences VA tno
surcSt way Of extending its own Importance IL nas
elevated tho first rank that Nation WHOM OF al o'no'
in Europe believes that individual and national grost
mess depend on the general prosperity It has Destroyed
an Empire whose policy was War while 10 CRY Wa
Peace but H has at the tme created greater ana
be<tsr one whose undoubted policy must be Pesce In
France has prioked and instantly exploded despotnm
which might have continued for generation Of peace
TO enervate tho poope tyrsnniSed over In Germany
has not less suddenly aroused spirit OF nationality
which renders at possible that unity
of tho German which ago Of peace might not
have consolidated While the French Empire existed there
could be real peaoe In Europe. While tho 0ermsn
Empire remains thsre DO without it, consent;
and the the past policy tho fixed principles the natural
sympsthes Of her people, not tho nero written records
Of hor government voable at the will OF ono man. arc
with tho race which has boon painfully humiatod;
but let us also rejoice with that larger civIizs-
ton Of all Europe which gains by what tho French
have lost Tho yet to nnd its most important re-
suit its chief apology and Its greatest blessing In the In
creased impulse It will give to higher and better civil
sstion In Europe It In their enlarged liberty that tho
Frenoh arc yet TO themselves pleased By their own
overthrow France has not merely been relieved OF tho
cancer of tho Empire that ate Its heart out. but her
people have been liberated from false and enervating
direction. and FREQ TO enter upon sounder
and truer education than that which has bore
tofore made Thorn raoe Of polished Dut
frivolous people-smooth and elegant Of exterior
but too deficient In tho great impulses which belong
to earnest and progressive races We shall not DO
many years-ths French will not DO . generstion-in
recognizing that tho has been OF the mysterious
agencies Of civilization. spreading knowledge, which
tho only Iof power tho unsupported means
Of developing industry which creates wealth BY the
war France relieved Of ruler. an army, system OF
government which absorbed and wasted her prosperity
and not only she and Germany, but oil Europe viii DO
saved henceorh much Of that cost In wealth and loss In
national spirit which follows tho maintenance OF largo
standing armies Relieved Of Ithose dread incubuses.
France may become tho rival Of England and Germany
In manufacturers and educated beyond tho belief
that the glory Of nation L. found In Its prowess In war;
not It's peaceful prosperity she may become. a. manu-
featuring state, moro prosperous and truly Influential
than at any period of her former existence.