Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-22
SUNDAY, JULY 2e, 1855.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1888.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,O of New York.
FOR vICE-PRESIDENT-
ALLEN G. THURMAN. of Ohio.
FOR PRESIDENT
To enforce .trugality in public erpendi
tares and abolish unnecessary taxation.
FOR CONGRESS. SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL h. TERRY, of Fresno.
The Conference of the Kaiser AM
the Gear.

IAe conference of the Kaiser and
the Gear.
The young Emperor William has en-
tered upon his reign with decided circum-
stances OF eclat. To the casual observer
it would look very much as if the long
outstanding rivalry between Germany
and Russia had disappeared, and as if
France were alienated from the councils
OF Eurore. A really strong friendship
between Germany and Russia would re-
suit, very shortly, in several very mark
ed alterations of the map Of Europe, es-
pecially if Italy and Austria should still
be kept faithful to the German alliance.
In such combination the partition OF
Turkey would admit of Russia and Aus
tria both getting large slices of the Sick
Mans effects, while the reward of Ger
many and Italy would come later on in a
collision which would undoubtedly be
provoked with France. This is the dy-
nastic situation of Europe as reflected from
the grand naval demonstration at Cron-
stadt, and from the festivities at Zarskoe
Selo. But perhaps stage has been
reached in Europe in which dynastic dis
positions may not have the potency of
the will of God, differing thus from the
old days. The accession of young,
martial and enthusiastic sovereign to the
control of the affairs of the German EN-
pire cannot fail to have some marked
influences on the current of European
events. About the ordinary time has
elapsed which follows peace in Europe
and war, which has been described by
Washington Irving and others as a pre-
paration for peace, on the principle OF
having peace if you have to fight for it,
would seem to have logical excuse for
its early declaration. If Turkey shall
be divided between Russia and Austria,
with the consent of Germany
and Italy, the crucial time for
Republican France will have arrived.
The qaid prequo for Italy would lie in the
at least partial dismemberment of
France, which would restore to the
Italians Nice and Savoy, while Germany
would probably seek her recoupment in
the absorption of Belgium and Holland
and the enforced disarmament and dis
ablement of France. Such programme
would isolate not only France but Eng.
land as we'll. 1t would have some
features in its favor; but, as whole, it
would revolt the spirit of the age.
The true, honest adjustment of the un-
settled state of Europe would be, from
the points of view of the rights of
peoples and Democratic sentiment, to
restore Nice and Savoy to Italy, to
give back Alsace and Lorraine to France,
to rehabilitate the ancient nationality
of Poland, to retire Turkey into
Mohanmedan Asia, to create a great
Slav nationality from the European por
tions of Turkey, to give Greece her
legitimate autonomy and to allow Russia
to make good her Polish losses by great
extensions of territory in Central Asia.
But it is grave question just now as to
what figure either sentimental or Demo.
cratic politics will cut in Europe with a
determined, reactionary and militant
young Kaiser controlling the machinery
of the most powerful military engine
known to Europe since the days of the
first Napoleon. For our part, we have
no doubt but that, before the close of the
nineteenth century, the Cesarian
idea will be replaced by the Dem
ocratic. We may not, in the next
dozen years, be treated to Tenny
sons parliament of man and fedora
fion of the world, and the drum beats
may still be heard in the regions where
they have been the infants lullaby for
countless centuries, but the autocratic
idea will go down; and the sway of
dynasties will yield to that of peoples.
Pageants like those of Cronstadt and
Zarskoe Selo will simply serve to point
the moral of the new era, and to adorn
the tale of the decadence of the right
divine Of Kings, as to which the belief
# the Kaiser and the Czar, in this year
II grace 1888, is as absolute as was that
q Stafford in England two hundred and
ffty years ago.