Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-08
Other Lands Than Ours.

Queen Victoria is at BalmOral, where she
is to remain until the third week IN Novem-
ber. She will have host of royal visitors
during her sojourn, but there will be no
political significance connected with the
courtesies thus paid to the British sovereign.
Meantime no country in Europe is Offering
less in the way of political interest than
Great Britain. The government is steadily
and vigorously carrying out its policy in
Ireland, and certain political leaders are i'm
proving the parliamentary recess in endeav
oring to strengthen their position
with constituents or advance the
cause they represent in popular regard, but
generally there is a very quiet condition in
politics, which may be expected to continue
until the reassembling Of parliament. 1t
would seem that for the present most Eng
lishmen are more interested in American
than in home affairs.
~.
Advices from Germany indicate that the
health of the great chancellor is in state
which is far from reassuring to his friends
1t is claimed that he himself is the imme
diate cause of his own illness, by having dis
obeyed the instructions of his physician, but
it may be more than suspected that mental
trouble is at the bottom of his sickness. 1t
is evident that the young emperor chafes at
the control of Bismarck, and that he is
ambitious to be out of leading strings
and to pursue his own course unham-
pered. If he does induce the retire
ment of the chancellor he will take step
which will put stop to German progress for
many a year. and which will do much to de-
stroy the unifcation of the empire so pa
tiently and carefully built up by the old en-
peror and his faithful counselor. However
much we may differ about the means adopted
by Bismarck for the creation of a united
Germany, we cannot deny his wonderful sue
cess any more than we can challenge his
craftsmanship. Having accomplished the
task which he had set before HIM, it would
seem the part of wisdom on the part of the
young emperor to permit the aged statesman
| to retain the control of affairs, especially as
his ability is unquestloned. Latterly there
has been a disposition evinced by Bismarck
| to be content with keeping the peace of Eu-
rope, and permitting Germany to develop.her
resources under the protective system
| adopted in 1882, and her success in that line
| has been most encouraging. Now if the
| young emperor comes in and pulls down the
carefully built fabric its fall may involve the
| whole empire in ruin.
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II appears that the most extraordinary
| efforts were made to defeat Boulanger in
the late elections in which he was success
| full. All sorts of tyrannical prosecutions are
said to have been practiced, including the
sending of large bodies of troops into the
towns where Boulanger was to speak, and
the dispersion, at bayonet point, of crowds
assembled to hear his harangues. M. Tin
| nhar Of cba prla Aicna
and formerly cabinet minister, is authority
for the statement that at Doullens agents OF
the government prevented by force Bou-
langer's friends from calling upon him at
the hotel, caused the banners of his par.
tisans to be destroyed, and, in effect, de.
clared the town in a state of siege, even for
bidding all traffic in the streets. or course
the excuse for all this was that vigorous
measures We're necessary to preserve order
Color was given to the claim
by the uproar which prevailed al
all points along the line of the generals
progress. No wellwisher of our sister re
public can study the European accounts Of
these most recent political events in France
without grave apprehensions. Our contempt
for a charlauan must not be allowed to blinG
our eyes to facts which explain, though they
do not excuse, his career. There is a seeming
lack among all parties in France of that faitf
in the strength of free institutions which
makes a self-governing people at once moder
ate and firm. France is full of discomfort
There is an ominous want of mutual con
fidence between rulers and citizens Ther,
are many signs that vast number, probabl.
vast majority, of the people want some
thing which they have not got, and that the.
do not know what it is. For such condition
of unrest and unreason Boulanger is exactl,
fitted. He has just one proclamation Il
make, and that is that things are in bat