Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-26

MONDAY EVENING. NOV. 90. isss.
seethIpp Europe.


Unless oil present signs fail, continen-
tal Europe Is going to find plenty Of use
for her armed millions before the year
ends. The Spaniard has been the stormy
potard Of European politics, since the
mineing of the thin blood of Valois
and Hapsburg. 1t was catch word
with diplomatists of the last century
that Spanish quarrels bred national
wars. II was the suggestion OF the com
ing Of Hohenzollern king that brought
destruction to the Bonaparte empire in
1870 II looks very much as IL the visit
Of the Hohenzollern crown prince was
about to bring the French republic to a
crisis. The ten years of peace and good
order democracy has given the most an
cient monarchy in Europe, has been
not only a disagreeable surprise, but q
menace to the German despotism created
by Bismarck. The great German was
perfectly willing in 1871 to reorganize
the republic, confident, like other Euro.
pean statesmen, that it would continue
In turmoil and end In the sudden seizure
Of power by some enterprising political
buccapeer of the Bonaparte sort.
In any event, it would mean peace
until the long dreamed German unity
could be consolidated. But Bismarck
recognizes now, when too late, that a
republic has enabled the French people
to recuperate as they never could have
done under monarchy, with its corrupt
methods, its costly courtiers, its pen
stoned mobiles, its venal aristocracies.
While German unity Is q fact IN form
alone, the French republic is the most
compact, united and aggressive political
force in Europe. 1t is to Paris, not Ber
lin, that the citizens of the German
fatherland look for enlightened political
doctrine, and the world capital that the
apostle of blood and iron once dreamed
o. on the banks of the spree, is still found
on the banks of the Seine. Nor has Bis
marck with all his alliances reassured
himself against the revived military
powers of the French. When the com.
plct with Austria and Italy was signed,
the world was given to understand that
French armaments were no longer a
matter of concern to the German author
tiles. But no sooner Is it found that
Russia is secretly on good terms with the
republic, than measures are taken to
include Spain in the confederation OF
kings. The scheme is an adrOit one. The
Spanish dream for two hundred years
has been the repossession of Portugal.
This is the prize held out TO King Alton
50 for his signature to the imperial
alliance. Meanwhile France, which has
been alternately upbraided and compas
sionated for its isolation, is found to
have been working quite as astutely
uuder the rose, as Bismarck under the
oak. The unnatural alliance of Italy
with Austria Is a compact that the vast
majority of the Italians would never
lift hand to carry out aud, knowing
this, the French diplomatists have kept
steadily in view the fact that when the
time comes, Italy's army will go with
the power that offers to restore the
ancient provinces Of Trieste, Trent and
Dalmatia. These are now under the
usurping hand Of Austria Let France
make known to the Italians that
their king alone is the obstacle to the
recovery of these ancient Italian lands,
aud the triple alliance would crackle like
parchment in coal bed 80 far as Italy
is pledged.
Nor is the sudden threatening of the
Arabian prophet without its influence
on the Christian powers. Unless England
increases her Egyptian contingent for q
march to the deserts, her protege, the
khedive, will be driven from Cairo and
the results of the Tel ell Kebir conquest
lost. But England is not in position to
assume the defense of Egypt. BY the
most solemn engagements the govern
ment has pledged itself to retire from
the Delta and leave the Egyptians TO
their own devides. This assurance has
been given the other European powers
and cannot he arbitrarily changed, with
out raising serious complications with
France, if not Italy and Russia. TO
hold her own in the Nile, England will
obviously be obliged to call in France
and re-establish the dual control, which
was abolished after the short campaign
at Tel ell Kebir. Events are thus fore
ing certain powers to closer union
with France and ltaly-whle Eng.
land, which distrusts Germany as
much as Germany disturbs France,
finds that her selfish aggressiOns
have brought universal suspicion and
hatred, with possible uprising in all her
MOhammedan possessions. The year
may pass without any OF the mines,
over which the torch is now flaming, ex
ploding, but the signs all point to such
year Of convulsion as has not been seen
since Bonaparte oyerrode Europe.