The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-08

New York Hour.
French statesmen are implacable AL
though there was no personal quarrel be-
tween them, NJ. Rouher would never look at
NJ Gambetta. General Cavaignac refused to
shake hands with Louis Napoleon when the
latter was elected President NJ Drouyn de
Lhuys once offered a seat on the platform al
an agricultural show to Lamartine the poet,
and Jules Favre the statesman. Whereupon
half the newspapers in the country an
nounced that he had forgotten his dignity
as an Imperial senator and Privy Councillor"
This habit of mind must be understood if
the present situation is to be grasped. The
French republic has no formidable enemies.
Its opponents are too badly disorganized TO
show a solid front. Therefore, it invents
foes. 1t selects half a dozen innocuous
princes, the princes of Orleans, and in blind
fury casts them out. What is their offense?
They are the sons and grandsons of king
who governed France very respectfully for
eighteen years and vanished one night mys-
teriously in a cab. They have done good
service 10 France both by land and sea-
They have taken up their abode in quiet
houses in town and country, where
society of peculiar charm has gath
cred round them. They have taken
no part in political movements, and
have only demanded to end their DAYS in the
tie and tradition. And against these men of
spotless probity the Red Republicans of the
Chamber are screaming, as the JacobinS cried
in 80 for the blood of the aristocrats.
What will the end be? NJ. Fallieres is
plainly stopgap There will come back
from the next election a Chamber more vio-
lent than any which has preceded it. There
will come back body which will call to the
leadership some such man as Dr. Clemen-
ceau. Then the Chamber will outgrow its
leader, and will look round for Robes
pierre. Robespierres, we may be sure, will
not be wanting; but they will not endure
Their violence will cause the inevitable re-
action. With the reaction will come the ir-
evitable dictator. With the dictatorship
will come the first note of the restored mon
archy Who can pry further into the future?
This we know OF n surety. The day of the
Radicals is vet TO come. The Commune has
still to be avenged.
Aud while France is working out her des-
tiny NJ de Giers, the foreign minister Of
Russia, has been making d sensational Jour
ney through Central Europe. He did not
we may be certain, mean 1T to be sensation
He paid visit to Prince Bismarck at Varzin
where he admired the Chancellor's big dog
and quatfed the Chancellor's champagne. He
paid visit to Count Kalnoky, at Vienna
where he expressed much satisfaction with
the last waltz of Johann Strauss He then
returned to the bosom of his family at ST.
Petersburg, where he arrived on Tuesday
Just in time to welcome the Duke and Ouch
of Edinburg, So far nothing could be
simpler. But there exists a class of persons
in Europe-understrappe in the foreign
offices and cheaper sort of journalists-who
cannot see minister take his walks abroad
without insisting that his promenade is
fraught with danger to the peace of Europe
We have, therefore, been deuged with trash
about she triple alliance, and-the chances of
war between the powers which compose it.
10 bNx. tcn al l.
foreign politics. Russia, Austria and Ger
many are not going to fight. And they have
very good reason for their abstention, hay
ing nothing whatever to fight about. There
are dozens OF pretty theories on which they
can be matched. There is the theory of race
the Slav elements of Austria gravitating
to Moscow, the German elements of Austria
gravltating to Berlin and the Hapsburg
dynasty making a last struggle to keep them
together. There is the theory of Constan-
tinople-Austria and Russia covetng the
heritage of the Turk, and Bismarck being
willing to cede it to neither. There is the
theory of the Balkans-al three powers
wranging for the dominant inffuerc e in the
new pr1ncipalities and kingdoms. There is
the theory of persons-CZars and Emperors
bearing each other no love, ministers at odds
generals Jealous of each others distinctions
These theories and countless others, look
well enough on paper. None of them, how
ever, is likely to lead to war.
Those, therefore. who look for a spring of
stirring events must turn their attention
elsewhere. France gives promise of abund-
ant agitation. Spain may witness the over
throw OF Sagasta. III England the prospect
is, for a moment, calm. Parliament is to re-
assemble in a fortnight; Mr.. Bradlaugh
threatens to march to the House at the head
of a Cockney host; the Irish members are
already making a huIlabaloo on behalf of
their martyrs, Messrs. Davitt, Healey and
Quinn. Lord Derby has to prove his mettle
in the Colonial Office, and Sir Charles Dixie
to show his worthiness to occupy seat in
the cabinet. Mr.. Gladstone will have at his
back as strong a majority as OF
cid, the bye-electons having left the
balance of parties undisturbed giving eleven
Liberals ten Conservatives and two Home
Rulers. And it seems probable that the ses-
sion will be devoted, not to repression acts,
land bills or the closure, but to questions of
liquor, of county government, and of the
Lord Mayors right to ride in a gingerbread
coach through the streets of London.
Meanwhile society is shooting, yachting
and dancing The carnival has begun at
Nice; the roulette is spinning briskly at
Monte Carlo, Lord Randolph Churchill is
backing the red in the establishment of tue
late NJ Blame and Mr. Gladstone is taking
his ease at Cannes.