Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-23

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"the drawing of the boundary line be-
tween royal dominion and priest craft, F"
enables the chancellor TO secure a ma
jority for a biennial budget. Voting
money two years in succession means moth
ing here where we are constantly doing it
as a convenience. In Germany, it is the
surrender of a vital principle of consti-
t%utional liberty. Herr Bennigsen is a
young man, barely ffty-eight, but he has
been for twenty-five years struggling to
get parliamentary government in a unit
ed Germany. The odds were great, the
difficulties many; but among them all it
probably never occurred to him to range
the fact that when he Ihad got his Ger
many, his constitution, his federal sys-
tenn and his German and Prussian par
liaments, he would throw up his seat in
both because in neither is he able to rally
a decent working opposition against a
powerful minister, The National Liber-
al party Herr Bennigsen led seemed at
one time certain to reach power; but it
its best leader gives up in despair.
Herr Bennigsen's act has made an ex-
~traordinary sensation in Germany, and,
coming with Bismarck's deliberate UNI
conditional surrender to the Vatican, has
attracted wide attention here; but it is
less remarkable of itself than as a part
of the Liberal collapse in Europe. The
Mancini- Depretis ministry has just been
r%emodelled by kicking out two of its
leading Liberals. Gambetta sank under
the apparently hopeless task of governing
through a French chamber elected by
districts, and the republic seems to be
running down like an unwound clock.
Count Taaffe, in Austria, has been forced
to make n of those concessions to
Bohemian nationality which must upset
that neat machine, the dual Austro-H Hun
garian monopoly.
AS the Tories passed the reform bill in
lS6?-S, a stronger measure than the Lib
erals could carry, so they lead the Liber-
ais now in meeting the land league pro-
gramme of a peasant proprietary with a
proposal which is perhaps too elaborate,
but whose introduction makes sure the
ultimate object of the league in this direc-
ton. Mr.. Gladstone had no choice but
to accept, not the scheme as laid out, but
the essential part of it, and an act of
parliament to that effect will be ordained,
though perhaps not until a Tory govern
ment has succeeded to MI. Gladstone's.
1t is the custom of the English Tories
to triumph on measures they have Dor
rowed from their antagonists pecul-
iarity of British politics as yet unknown
in this country, although there have
been some experiments in that direction.
w. I'll. Smith foreshadowed a good while
ago this action of Lord George Hamil-
ton, and had a proposition to make
which the Phoenix park murders de-
layed. Lord George, who is the third
son of the Duke of Abercorn Qately
Tory viceroy of Ireland), makes this the
opportunity of his public life, and gets
both personal and party distinction by a
simple acceptance of the Irish gospel ac-
cording to Parnell.
The Marquis of Lorne has taken his
leave of the Canadian parliament, and
Lord L~ansdowne has been selected as his
successor in the viceroyalty. 1t is i'm
possible to speak of Lord Lorne as a con-
spicuous success in the position he vacates
this year.. What success he has had, he
has owed rather to his rank as the Queens
son-in-law than to any display of person.
al ability. He has shown nothing of
Earl Duiferin's skill in keeping the Can
adams amused by saying clever though
kindly things at our expense, and in
making them pleased with themselves.
That was not the highest style of gov
than the frigid and fastidious officialism
of his successor.
Italy's mode of seeking peace by pre-
pairing for war is to strengthen her naval
forces. She owns the Italia, the largest
iron-clad aAoat, and the other day she
launched at Leghorn the Lepanto, an ex-
act duplicate. This gives her four first
class sea-going turret ships. Two of
these are armed with 100-ton guns; but
her new ships are to have still larger
ones, and a good deal of money will be
spent simply in experimenting. English
workshops mainly reap the benefit of
these vast OUTLAWS of money. Italy's
new Importance as a member of the Ger
man-Austrian party adds significance to
the building up of a naval power in the
Mediterranean.
The life of a Turkish sultan is brief and
full of trouble. The reigning monarch
has had more than his share of affection.
All his fairest European provinces have
been wrested from him one by one and
the remainder of his dominions is held
by a slender band of authority. The
French have taken Tunis, over which he
claimed suzerainty, and the English are
in possession of Egypt. Asia Minor is in
a disturbed condition-none Of the re-
forms, pledged by the treaty of Berlin,
have been ~inaugurated. The Kurds are
in frequent insurrection, and Armenia is
In danger any moment of passing into the
possession of Russia, who by means
of the railroadsrecently constructed inthe
Caucasus can concentrate 100000
troops on that frontier at a moments
notice. Bnt the most serious of its late
difficulties is the rebellion now in pro-
gress in the historic region of ALBANIA.
n Albanians are of ancient descent
and since the heroic defense of Scander-
berg delayed the fall of the Greek EN-
pire in the fifteenth century, have never
shown themselves pliable to Turkish
authority. The country they inhabit is
mountainous and almost inaccessible.
The population of the southern districts
are mostly Greeks, whose fathers took an
active part in the war of Greek independ-
ence.
The Japan Gazette says: News has
been received to the effect that the ooents