Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-19

HOPES OF WEAKENING FRANCE By A WAR WITH
CHINA.

dispatch via French Atlantic cable to the
New York Herald from Berlin, June 10Th. says !:
The great Reichskanzler has just added another
leaf to his laurels. He has carried his budget
in the face of the violent opposition of the ma
tional liberals, who see in Prince Bismarck
schemes to obtain an Independent revenue for
the empire, by buying up railroads. creating to-
bacco monopoly and the Inauguration of pro-
tectionist policy. deathblow to all hopes of
representative government in the Fatherland
The parliamentary session closes this year. as
hitherto, with the martial strains of the Kali
ser's message. which recalls the days of imperial
Rome.
DEFEATED PROGRESSISTS.
Prince Bismarcks victory, together with his
suddenly throwing over the progressists and
siding with the utramOntanes, with the view
OF establishing n,oo'ts uireadi with the vati-
can. has completely cut the ground from under
the feet of his adversaries, and, to quote the
expression of moderate German paper. ''has
sounded the death knel of German liberalism"
Cassaudra-like warnings, nevertheless are prey
alent. The conservatives are warned that their
success forced Edward Lasher across the At
lantic, and now Rudolph Won Bennigsen. who is
regarded as head and shoulders above all other
German liberals and as pre-emineutly the man
OF the future, has become wearied and discOnr-
aged at the uphill task Of making German rep
resentative institutions reality. At last he has
retired hopeless from the struggle.
DANGERS AHEAD.
Prussian junkerdom is told in plain words
that the gradual removal of wise and moderate
statesmen of the Won Bennigsen type is frauyht
with tine gravest peril to the whole social fabric
Of the Fatherand There Is no longer any
safety valve overhead i'm the internal machinery
of the German empire. Men like Won Bennig-
Sen could have eXtin2uished the dangerous
rEc kx,f.x
there are no longer any buffers between the divine
night and liberal principles of the crudest form
The struggle is intensified by the bitterness of
despair. MOcltte donn nts- Deutschland dds Herz-
6tdt der Vet, NIGHT dltzu grosse,s Scltddea aet-
men! Such is the picture held forth by the lib
eral press.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The outlook In foreign affairs has q far more
brilliant aspect. Since the Congress of Berlin
every Berner is accustomed, with natural PRIDE
to flatter himself that all the threads of the
European politics are cOnverged in the kaiser
stadt. But now China is brought within the
focus OF Berlin statecraft, and the center Of
gravity OF the great Asian MYSTERY is transferred
to the banks of the Spree. The great chancel-
lOr's fertile brain is now seeking diversion in the
intricacies of TOnquin and AMMAN. Count
von HartZfeldt is busy with dOssiers day
and night concerning the Franco-Chinese
tmbrOgliO. Prince Won HOhenlohe, the German
ambassador to France. has been summoned to
advise the chancellor. Herr Won Brandt, the
German minister at Pekin, Is now here, and
the arrival is expected of Marquis Tseng, the
adroit Chinese plenipotentiary who once
spoke OF Bismarck the great wall of Ger
many 1t is believed here that if Prince Bis
marck really wishes to prevent war between
China and France he can do so. and it s diff
cult to see what he has to gain by precipitating
or permitting hostlities. A peaceful solution
Ia hoped for.
An imminent Russian military authority yes
serday assured your correspondent that China
by simply leaving the Tonqun question unset
tied, by secretly encouraging the warlike Tar
tars to take service in Anrfam by making
semblance of continued preparations, by being
constantly alert-in short, by executing Fabian
strategy on most gigantic scaie-could
create permanent drain on the fighting
strength of France and diminish her import-
ance as factor in the politics of Europe.
Meanwhile orders have been received from
Pekin giving employment to extra hands in the
Krupp factory. aud tele@raphic instructions
have been received at Stettin from Shanghai
to construct steel cruiser. several steel guns
and torpedo boats and a floating dock. 1t is
reported that at least five officers OF the Prus-
sian staff have received tempting offers to enter
the Chinese service. just as Koehler and others
are now in the Turkish service.