Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

lords and baiIiffs in Scotland, yet there
is there what is more dangerous. Tht
Scotch pulpits are beginning to thun
der on the land laws. And then there
is Canada openly discussing indepen
Cence and annexation to US. There
are her MOhammedan Sepoys in India
who some years ago only failed to make
a successful revolt for the want of a
competent leader, and who stand ready
tn revolt again. An empire of shreds
and patches, scattered all over the
world; the sun never sets on it, and the
tax-gatherer never goes to bed. Her
army, kissing and a reproach to SOL
diers; her navy, by-word to engineers
does England want with war?
Take France. Whipped by Germany,
and busy with the experiment of an
elective emperor, who resigns before
his term is out; buster with the ques-
ton of education. and busiest of all with
the church question. and carrying q
heavy debt-she needs no war. Take
Russia. Think of an immense terrific
ry with poor means of communication,
and say, i'm a whisper. Jews, bank
ruptcy, and Nihilism, and you have
the whole thing. Take those nations
out, and a war would be q storm in q
goOsepOnd.
The second cause of peace is fear.
Let war he once set in motion and no
man can tell where it will end. 1t
would almost certainly reconstruct the
map of the world; and the uncertainty
as to whose OK would be gored, holds
all hands up and still. This uncer-
tainty arises not only from the prob
lens Of internal administration, which
every nation has on its own hands ser,
but from the compound compii-
of internal questions. Take the
nations of Europe; there is the Jewish
question involving more than one of
them. The Jews have been a people
scattered and pulled, meted out and
hitherto, and yet it stands
out i'm high relief on the pages Of his
tory, that no nation has ever wronged
and oppressed that people and pros
pered. Holding to-day double mort
gage on the land of Palestine, which
the best commercial highway
Of the old world, the Jew is is the con-
trolling political factor of Europe. Then
there is the question of the temporal
power of the Pope, whose flag | have
seen hoisted on American soil above
the American flag, which protects those
who insults it. Bismarck had quar-
rel with the Pope, and is now trying to
make peace by raising quarrel with
Italy, under the pretense that the tenn
poral power of the Pope is European
and not an italian question. Let this
idea once get under way and France
will come in under the plea that the
temporal possessions of the Pope wexeI
given him by France, taken away BY.
aud restored by Franca go
that she has y prior claim. Italy claims
to be the heir of imperial Rome, and so
claims Africa; and GENES i'm collision
with France on the Algerian question.
and gives her two reasons for uniting
with Germany against Italy. And
then there is the Musselman question,
divided in two: What is to be done with
urkey: What is to be done with In
liia? These questions hold the Old
World still.
The next source of peace is jealousy
among the European nations. First.
Of each other. The society name of
this feeling-this Banquo's ghost Of
pOlitics-is the Balance of
and its object is to prevent any
one nation becoming too strong. and
troublesome, and it binds
the hands of great statesmen as well.
France became too heavy when the
brains of Napoleon Bonaparte were
thrown into the scale, and all Europe
combined to take him out, aud set him
west of Africa. LOO from any country.
But this jealousy of European nations
in regard to each other has done US
good i'm three very prominent instances.
1t was jealousy of England which
brought France to our aid in the Rev.
War. 1t was jealousy of
England which made France sell US
Louisiana for halt whistle half whis-
tied. 1t was jealousy of both England
and France which induced Russia, dur
ing the late rebellion, to make a treaty
offensive and defensive with us to
stand thirty years; and, in accordance
with that treaty, she sent us fleet car
rying 2,400 guns, to winter in the har-
Dor of New York SO as to be ready for
use to aid our monitors. For the use
Of that fleet she charged S., 200, 900 in
gold. We paid the money, and she
gave us Alaska as u receipt. But the
jealousy of European nation in regard
to US has done us harm. 1t originated
Aaron Burr's attempt to divide the
Union, the discovery of which by
.leXauuST I1di1llUOu COSt ulIu Ills lIIc.
The free trade ideas of England set on
foot the anti-tariff emente i'm s 'uth
Carolina i'm JacksOh's time. To get ev-
eu with US tor our itchiug for Cuba,
Spain joined France aud England in
the South to rebel. En-
gland, France, and Spain stood ready
10 acknowledge and guarantee the in
dependence of the Southern Confeder-
acy, and. as a preliminary, established
in Mexico an empire to which the
Southern Confedera"y was to he an
nexed, the whole thing being revival
Of the plan of Aaron Burr. Those three
European nations wanted plea for de-
;laring war. England could not avail
herself of the seizure of Mason and
Slideli, for that was a dose of her own
rig ht Of search-her for
ner patient being the doctor. In the
Meantime our treaty with Russia was
and, inasmuch as fighting
he United States alone, and hampered
Dy the Southern COME eracy, was one