Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02


netic force to draw the Austrian Germans that way
For the rest Austria is as her neighbors She has
heavy debt, a yearly deficit great army,
struggling people. And she is already changing her
dominant elements under the pressure of circum.
stances which probably nothing short of an Euro.
pean revolution could alter the bent and drec.
ton of.
The young Italy of to day is far diff, rent from the
dreams If the old Italy whose enthusiasm wrought
| tie great change. The men of Cavour's epoch,
and Of Mazzinis, predicted to themselves an ad-
vance which has not in truth come to pass The
spirit of national unity has failed to dssipate the
numbness which centuries of despotism and
disunion had produced There has consequently
been disappointment AMI restlessness, and futile
suggestions OF further experiments Foolish sug-
gestions, because the work Of evolution cannot be
hurried. BY no it possible to skip one link
in the long inevitable chain That connects barbalism
with civilization Capacity for selfgovernment
cannot be made to order. people whose minds
have been weakened BY priesthood cannot at once
become intrepid and daring thinkers. Italy is no
doubt doing well as it poss bic for her to do
The suffrage is being extended quite as fast as is
necessary or prudent Public education is being APP
prec;ated by the quiteas much as could have
| been expected. Democratic institutions are being
introduced with reasonable success 10 a word the
nation is making all the progress that anyone had
right to anticipate, 81 miracles do not happen.
There is certain embarrassment between the Vatican
and the Government, growing out OF the folly and
obstinacy OF the former Tie Government has of.
ered provide literally for the Pope but Plus would
not take the income, and Leo has weakly allowed
himself to be turned in the perverse ways OF his
| pr, decessor. The Government Of course cannot
advance any further. 1t make no such c1nees-
SONS to the Papacy would encourage the Pope to
| think the restoration OF the empora pwer FEAST
BILE. ls must eventually, moreover treat the pont:f
Italian subject, and insist upon his submission
| to the laws like other people. This is what the
| Radicals have already demanded, and what the
Government has with 10 little diffcu ty postponed
And the the anti clerical sentiment is strong in
various parts OF the country, particularly in the
former Papa States either the Vatican must change
its policy or the Government will finally be obliged
to announce that forbearapce is at an end As re-
CARDS foreign policy speck ef danger has already
grown out OF the French expedition to Tunis The
Italian traders had established themselves in Tuns,
| anu Ma CTCaleu IueEe an important CONNER
cia interest They looked forward to the extension
Of this traffic, and probably even went SO far
as to imagine an Italian protectorate over
Tunis Then, too, the best ports of
the Beys territory overlook the Italian coast in a
manner which would prove nenacing in the event
of war, and altogether there enough cause of
dissatisfaction in the French expedition to produce
a very decided note of discomfort from Italy. The
French, toe, behaved with characteristic super
ciliousness, having evidently quite forgotten the
events of 1s71-2. They laughed at the anger of the
Italians and insuted them, and in Marseilles they
mobbed an allan Club because it did not illumi-
nate for the expedition. AL these things have
;reated bad blood, but Italy comprehends her own
weakness too fully to think of going to war with
France single handed. Ii she fights she must have
an ally, aud there is ally to be had unless it be
Germany. Yet it is significant that OF late the
Italian authorities have adopted holder attitrde
and that they have gone far as to ignore the
French protectorate in Tunis. II France is trucu
lently disposed here is quite enough for "dsus bel
TURKEY.
1t cannot be said that the Porte has been recover
ing during the past year After the Crimean war
Menschikcff explained the attitude of his country
by saying e La Rttssie ne boude pas es.e sc recul
le.' But Turkey does not recover, and does sulk
In fact it may be said that since Russia stopped
hammering at her she has failed, in the language Of
the prize.rng, to "come to time" and Europe is
alarmed lest she should die on its hands that 1t
has hardly dared to insist upon the carrying out OF
the Treaty of Berlin. At Constantinople the old,
dreary hopeless condition of things remains There
is the gang of thieying Pashas and their euteDants
always standing between the Sultan and knowl-
edge of the truth; always encouraging him to
squander the funds phich it becomes more and
more difficult to procure; and always steaipg full
fifty per cent. OF every sum that he laid hands
on and at the time throwing all the response
biiity upon the Sultan In the provinces there is
less law and more anarchy than ever. England has
made some attempts to enforce the provisions OF the
treaty in Asia Minor, but the material is very in.
tractabe. The Pashas in European Turkey con.
tinue to plumber their account, to cheat the
Government, to Cypress the people, to curse the
Inides, and to ex5o their own infinite superiority
More gradually then might have been expected
the Ottoman Empire is in fact decomposng
and it does not seem possible that anything in the
power Ct European statesmen can arrest the pro-
cess. CT course the terrible Eastern Question is
as full Of danger ever. There is no point of 1t
which is not capable of breeding an European war,
and the Governments handle 1t delicately as know
ing that it is not much safer than glass bomb
loaded with dynamite. Yet Turkey has outlived so
many predictions that she may very well survive
the present generation There is very little vitality
remaining in Der, but her neighbors will not allow
her to die if they help it, and so apprehensive
are they Of the consequences CT her deceass that
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believe that she still lives as was done in the case
OF the Cid Campeador There is however one con-
tingenci which may bafiis all expectations If the
present endeavor to recolonize Palestine with Jews
proves successful, and the movement thitherward
sets steadily in, it is by means impossible that
new Kingdom Of Israel may arise with the old Jeru
salem for its capital and such Kingdom would
certainly become potent factor in the settlement
OF the Eastern Question. Ill this, however, is in
the future, and we dealing with the past. At
present all that be said is that Turkey exists
1t cannot be said that the country is governed
EGYPT
Egypt has been in restless condition during the
past ear but it is restlessness rather of intrigue
than popular fermentation. The various attempts
of France and England to solve the financial problem
OF the country; the change of foreign officers who
appeared to exercise larger powers than the yceroy
the complications arising out of the treaty Of
Berlin; the tendency the part ii the Khediye to
cut loose from a nominal suzerain who has not
the power to assert his supremacy; all these
things have been working together to produce
decidedly confused and revolutionary state OF affairs
The mutiny Of the troops, evidently planned by
group Of military Pashas and having for its uIti
mate cbiee. the extrusion of all the foreigners and