The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18
THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK.
The Old World HOneycombed with Repub-
lican Hopes-The Holy Alliance Revived.

The Old World Honeycombed with Repub-
lican Hopes-The Holy Alliance Revived.
London Special to New York Herald
The nervous tension OF Europes armed
truce is becoming more and more intense
People talk of the confidential tetes-a- tete of
soverigns and pretend that Europe is di-
vided into two great camps, one under the
tutelage of Russia, the other under Ger
many, while every idle rumor from Berlin
causes stocks to tremble like aspen leaves.
But in problem where so many varied and
conflicting factors are at work it is not un-
natural that the cardinal motive underlying
the one broad issue should be lost sight Of
The moment has at last arrived when it is no
longer possible to conceal the fact that
Europe is becoming honeycombed with
the germs OF republican aspirations
These are now latent but at the
slightest encouragement are ready to
burst forth into burning activity causing
political cataclysm analogous to the physical
connections OF Ischia and Batavia Prince
Bismarck began his career when he put his
hand to the ploughshare to crush out all
sparks of the democratic instinct. He has
since been true to his traditions and now
stands as the palladium of those crowned
heads whose hearts beat in unison with the
creed of Prince Windischgratz, who held
that man begins with the rank of baron"
and who have welded together the steel
bands of bayonets that hold Europe as in
vice. The battle cries are no longer Germany
and France, Slav and Teuton or Latin, but
the great issue is between divine right on the
one hand and civil liberty on the other 1t
is as the champion of divine right that Prince
Bismarck now sits in the center of Europe
as Briareus, and with his hundred hands he
touches everything, moves everything, con-
trolls everything
The great political and military unit, COM
posed of Germany, Austria, Italy, Servia,
Roumania and Spain is nothing else but a
revival of the Holy Alliance OF 1915, and a
revindication OF those medieval principles
enunciated by the sovereigns assembled at
Laibach in the spring OF 1821-principles that
would plunge Europe back again into the
midst of the dark ages, and which at the
time caused thrill of Indignation to vibrate
in every corner of the world where civil lib
erty had been tasted. The Holy Alliance of
1915 originated with the Emperor of Russia.
A remarkable feature OF the alliance of 1883
is that the Gar is left out in the cold By a
singular coincidence it is precisely out in the
cold that at the present moment Russia can
best serve Prince Bismarck's ends, where, as
the only possible ally of France, she is avail
able as a decoy to lure, as occasion requires,
France into the fatal meshes
Russia could with one blow and at a COM
paratively slight cost bring pressure to bear
al Pekn that would compel the Emperor of
China to accord all the concessions that
France demands. The present Car is very
anti. German and has a sneakIng liking for
France. Moreover, there is the very signiii-
can't nomination of General Schmitz as
French ambassador at st. Petersburg. He is
an Alsatian, and is notorious as the most
virulent enemy of Prussia.
Prince Bismarck's ways and devices are
bold and exceeding cunning, He knows per-
fectly we'll that when the tug of war really
does come it will be merely holiday work to
persuade the Car that his only salvation de-
pends upon entering the holy league of
crowned heads that his own ancestor called
of the French revolution. Prince Bismarck