Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-20
EUROPE ARMING TO THETEETH.

Spain, we suppose, is about to take
her place in the list of armed nations
On the 18th ult. bill providing for
universal and compulsory military SER
vice was introduced in the Courts. 1t
will provoke strong objections, but in the
nature of things it will probably pass
France, Russia, and Austria have all
followed the example of Prussia and the
German Empire in substituting an arm
ed nation for a national army and every
other country of Europe must do like
wise. Never, since the crisis of the old
Napoleonic wars, has the continent been
in such hustle of martial preparation.
The terrible Franco-German war far from
ending with the bow of peace in the skies,
closed up under canopy of the blacklist
of war clouds The heavens of Europe
are full of the pcrtents of coming storms.
Prussia, not satisfied with having pro-
duced the finest modern army, has been
busying herself with new operations, new
maneuvers and new implements of death.
Her dreadful needle-gun is to be re-
placed by an arm even more sure and
deadly. France is straining every nerve
and spending every dollar she can raise
over and above the indemnity sums to
make an army as good as Prussia's. 1t
is now about twice as large, and thought
to be twice as efficient Theoretically
as that which crumbled to pieces before
the iron strokes of its great enemy
Ever since Sadowa. Austria has given
unremitting attention to her soldiery,
copying freely all that is best in the
Prussian system. The Russian army is
already remodeled on the same plan,
and outnumbers any force previously
known in its annals. The soldier king
of Italy has turned his country into a
camp like the rest, and now Spain is
preparing to strengthen herself for the
worst England, issolated from the ex-
IRENE dangers of European complications,
hesitates to enforce universal conscrip-
ton because she expects to get along
without it. But she is trying to create
standing army equal to resisting that
German invasion which is the present
bugaboo of English journalism. On this
subject, ridiculous as the idea seems tt
us, there is always panic in the Wal
Office. All the autumnal mane1ver;
were conducted for the express purpose
of practic;ng to repel an imaginary army
of Germans advancing on London anC
the severe criticisms of English journals
on these mimic campaigns leave the re
suit of real battle against flesh anC
blood invaders somewhat in doubt
Aside from England, all Europe is arm
ing to the teeth but what this portends
when and where the next clash of arm
will come, it is not given to mortals t
predict. Every nation is morbidly sen
sitive and apprehensive of perils to it
self and the highest incidents ar
magnifed into causes of anxiety; as 70
instance, the Russian press has takel
alarm because the staff officers at Vienn
and Berlin have been ordered to lear
the Russian language Nervous Russ
ian editors infer from this fact, or ru
NOR, that Prussia and Austria are tu
toring their officers for the contingenc
of war with the empire of the north
tremendous jump in logic, SURELY
t One Russian paper urges the immed
ate making Of an alliance with the Scar
danavian nations as a brace against th
, impending German shock. Whethe
these fears are we'll founded or ground
less, and whether the continent spend
the year 1873 in peace or becomes
vast battle field, one thing is evident {
this time; the United States are recei'
ing, and will receive in still greater pr
portions, unless the flow is checked
enormous accessions of emigrants fro
= all these armed nations. The Germa
a outpouring has been stimulated to tt
S highest degree by desire 20 avoid tt
risks of military duty in the future an
), the emigration from all the other vel
, turesome races of Europe is said to
!, on the gain, the latest evidence of tn
t being the arrival of a load of italians
: this port-an uncommon event.-Ne
York Journal Of Commerce.