Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-27


ment on the Irish question, and the express
sion of his belief that IL that sentiment
could have voice in general election 1t
| would declare in favor OF Irelaud's demand.
| The tory grasp of power is menaced, and no
one knows better than Lord Salisbury how
imperatively necessary it is that the people
shall not be given an opportunity to pass
| Judgment on the tory policy.
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General Boulanger in London will be at
much greater disadvantage than in Brussels.
! There is continuous telephonic communica-
tion between the latter aud Paris; there Is
none between the French capital aud Lon
don, and teiegraphic dispatches from Cen
eral Boulanger to his friends in Paris would
| be subject to tho danger of being officially
| intercepted before arriving at their ultimate
destination. His lines of communication
| will be greatly interfered with by his change
of base; his friends will be fewer in cold
| London than in warm Brussels and there
will not be 80 many of his followers to cross
the choppy channel to see him as there were
to take the snug railway journey to the cap
ital of Belgium. Ali the advantages were
with him in the latter place; all the dsad-
| vantages will be his in London. 1t would
not be at all surprising, therefore, if Gen
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an object of absorbing interest IN French
politics in case he continues absent from
France. Parliamentary government which
he would destroy, assures to him there, and
every political refugee, absolute liberty and
protection but neither 1t nor British society
is likely to offer him anything else of the
| least value whatever.
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The first of the memorable days of 1889
selected by the French government for GEN.
| tennial celebration, is the 5th of May when
the states-general opened its sessions at
Versailles 1t is announced that the French
diplomatic representatives in foreign coun
tries are also instructed to hold meetings of
French residents to observe the day Ger.
tainly, the beginning of this constituent as
sembly or constitutional convention was
fruitful enough to deserve the honors pro-
posed for it. 1t was this body that, rs the
national assembly, abolished feudal priv
ileges, the titles of nobility, aud the orders
Of chivalry; issued paper currency based on
confiscated ecclesiastical property; created
constitution for France, which the king was
compelled to accept; established freedom of
religion and of the press, aand made decar
alton of the rights of man. Its sessions, con-
tinuing until the end of September, 1891, laid
the foundation of popular government in
France. 1t was in this body that the third
estate first successfully stood up for its
rights against the mobiles and the clergy, and
successfully summoned these two privileged
orders to join it in legislation. It's bold re-
| fusa to disperse and meet in the way and
under the rules which King Louis XVI de-
sired, practically marked the beginning of
the revolution. Very fttingly, therefore,
does the French republic honor the hun
dredth anniversary of the meeting of this
assembly.
Reports are current that the emperor of
Russia has of late become extremely nerv-
Gus through constant fear of assassination
| fear that Is said to have been one of the
chief reasons for the abdication of King
Milan, of SeFyia, ana which might well
make coward Of any man whose nerves
were not of iron. But it is not likely that
the emperor will follow the example of Milan
and shirk the work which he conceives to
have been laid upon him when his father was
murdered. He is of stuff very different from
that which enters into the composition of
| Milan and thus far he has shown himself to
be very good emperor, as emperors go,
but it is not being a good man that will save
| him from assassination at the hands of the
| nihilsts, who have taken up the business
which used to be carried on-as in the case
of the Emperor Paul I.-by members Of the
imperial household when the czar stood in
the way of the personal ambition of his sons.
1t was the grand dukes that set the example
of "tempering tyranny with assassination, :"
and the malcontents among the people have
not been slow to learn the lesson.
No country in E,urODe tO-lay batter ilu a.
trates the folly of policy of militarsm and
war expenditure than does Italy. The ambi-
| tiOn of her rulers led to costly schemes of
colonization and armament; and an increase
in the tax burdens of the people followed.
| Then, in order to secure to the country that
| political recognition which it once enjoyed,
an alliance was entered into with Germany
and Austria, and the result of this has been
that the French have given up great part
of their trade with Italy, while their new
allies have not compensated for the loss by
the expected purchase of Italian fruits and
wines. A stagnation in those important in
dustries has brought about failures, and
caused greatly restricted market for labor.
Italy can not recede from her foreign policy :;
the newly created army and navy must be
supported; further taxation is impossible,
and the miserable peasants are quitting the
| country. 1OlltiCdl iolly mas rarely gone
further than this.
|
The very limited degree of confederation
which the five little republics-Guatcmala
Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica and Hon
duras-have agreed upon in no respect what
| ever looks toward a consolidated govern.
ment, but it is a wise and conservative ap-
proach toward what may one day become a
true federal union. Step by step these five
republics will probably be drawn together
toward basis for the re-establlshment of
the old Central American union. Even it
the federal government is never made as
powerful as in other republics, it will yet Sc
cnre certain degree of harmony in laws and
political rights. The prospective opening of
an inter-oceanic waterway increases the i'm
portance of political and commercial unity or
cooperation between the states.
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| The trip which Emperor William proposes
to make to the North Cape, provides occupa-
tion for him during the coming autumn.
while the journey to England will fill u part
of the intervening period. With these plans
in store, it looks very much as If the coming
year was expected by him to be one of peace