St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-13
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Gar Alexander Is Inclined to
Favor Germany as Against
France.
His Advisers, However, Have
No Time to Waste on
TeutonS.
Frauds and Deception Prac-
tieed Upon the Ruler of
ALI the RuSsias.
DR.. Junker, the Eminent Ex-
plorer, Says Stanley and
Emin Are Safe.
Special Cable to the Globe.

car has now become fully convinced
that the action of Germany has not been
directed against Muscovite interests,
but there still prevails feeling of UNI
eaSineSS owing to the possibility of the
cars being unable to resist the in
fuenceS that surround him and urge
him to breach with Germany. Hatred
of Germany and the desire to come to
an understanding with France in order
to be able 10 take advantage of all pos
sible contingencies to the detriment OF
the Teutonic race has long been the dis
tinguishing mark of the Russian Cbau-
vinists. The Chauvinists, moreover,
are the bulk Of those who take an inter
est in politics. All the Russian politi-
clans are profoundly imbued with
a sense of the greatness and the lofty
mission of Russia. These politicians,
including several members of the cabi-
net, have for several months past re-
doubled their efforts to convince the
ear of the great prosperity prevailing
throughout Russia. 1t is stated by pro-
fessional observers that there is good
reason for believing that the recent re-
ports of some OF the cabinet ministers,
especially that of the finance minister,
were manipulated to show large sur
plus in order to further their scheme of
deception. 1t Is now claimed that dur
ing the recent visit of the ear to the
Caucasus the
NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND
was carefully yelled from the imperial
spectators. and that the car returned
home Convinced OF the great prosperity
of his Southeastern possessions. a slml-
lar tourney was taken by the great
Catherine-nO common dupe-under the
guidance of Potemkin, who had htely
annexed the Crimea. The journey was
made by river, and the astute prince
had a movable village transported, one
stage in front of the imperial barge, so
as to create amid deserted waste the
spectacle of q never-ending stretch of
fertile country with an industrious and
happy population. 1t is not necessary
to suppose that similar trick has been
PLAYED upon the car, hut it is one
characteristic fact Of the European stu
alton that the peace of the world is in
danger from the peculiar isolation in
which the master of G0,090,000 of
Russians is compelled to live. 1t
Is well known that the desire to
come to an understanding with Russia
has long been powerful among a large
class of French politicians. Gen. Bou-
LANCER owes much Of his success to an
irregular attempt at correspondence
with the car. Many recent episodes of
diplomacy have shown that France
wishes to find an ally i'll the one other
nation which feels itself antagonistic to
Germany. The Germans, or at any rate
the rulers of Germany, have not taken
alarm. They have wisely perceived
that the best way to prevent the hostile
combination is to profess to ignore it.
and at the same time to strengthen
themselves against all eyentualities.
The triple alliance has done something
TO MODIFY TIE DANGERS
to which Germany is exposed. But the
German government judges that, valua-
BILE as alliances are. it is best to be as
strong as possible at home. The Ger
man army is as numerous, as well
armed, and as we'll equipped as any
army can reasonably be hoped to be.
The staff makes every effort to keep
itself well informed and the navy is be-
ing rapidly strengthened. Nine new
ironcladS and eleven new cruisers
make formidable building programme,
to say nothing OF the smaller craft
whose construction is IN contemplation.
Politics at Vienna is just now summed
up in the one word-Servia. The vi
emma and Pesth newspapers are eagerly
specializing as to the composition of the
new Servian cabinet. the possible access
sion of the formidable NJ. Ristics to
powder, and even the possible abdica-
ton of King Milan. NJ. De Laveleye
in an interview to-day said:
The real cause of the uneaSiness which
Austrian politicians always feel and &C.
casionaly express about Servia is that Aus.
tria has shown herself the determined enemy
of the Servian nationality. We talk of Bos-
mans and HerZegovinianS but BoSnianS and
Herzegovinians are Serbs. So are the Mon
tenel rs, and likewise the 5000. 90 of peo-
pie scattered about Hungary, Croatia, Sla-
Vonia and Dalmatia. All the Serbs, the Mon
tenegrns excepted, are under Austrian rule,
and with regard to the people of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, at all events, there is al the
bottom of every Servian heart the feeling of
Servia Irrendenta In Macedonia, also,
though under Turkish rule, There is another
large block OF Scrvlan Inhabitants. Now TO
talk of Pans laVism in connection with Servia
is nonsense, and the phrase is only
used by Austrian newspapers with the
object or inducing the PUBLIC to believe that
for some mysterious reason TIE ServianS are
ANXIOUS to be absorbed into Russia Pan
Serbism. on the other hand, is a very real
feeling, and very strong one. 1t may seem
ancient history to talk of the fourteenth
century and the great stephen Dulhan, but
all about the great Dulhan, and dreams of
reconstructed Seryia. which, like the Servia
of those days, should extend from Belgrade
to Janina, il IS not ancient history at all. but
very modern history indeed. Of course
the SeryianS do not shut their eyes to the
hard facts of The nineteenth century. They
probably dream little Of Croatia and,nOt at all
of SalOnica. But on the other hand. they do
most certainly dream a great deal of Bosnia
and Herzegovina still more of Kassova and
Now Bazaar, and they viii never acGuiesce
without fighting (any more, for that matter,
than viii the Creeks in the acquisition of
the whole of Macedonia by Bulgaria. The
treaty of san Stefauo did
WRONG To GREECE AND sERvIA
by giving the whole Macedonian land to Bnl-
garia as q large part of it was not Bulgarian
but Greek and Servian. The settlement of
the Macedonian question depends essentially
upon the Bulgari~.ls. 1t is a hard saying but
a true one that Greeks and Serviaus would
rather see the Turk rule in Macedonia than
to see the whole of that country given up to
the Bulgarians: and. il the latter fail TO show
sense and moderation. that particular ques-
ton will never be settled without war. The
other part of Servia 1rredenta raises even
more serious questions. Austria went into
Bosnia and Herzegovina expressly TO prevent
the formation Of greater Servia. She
pushed forward towards Novi Bazaar expressly
in order TO drive a wedge betWsen Ser
via and Montenegro. and SO prevent
their union. IT is therefore impossible that
any DdTIOuC oClNIiI SIOuiO DE lOleSlly
Austrias friend. 1t is hard to see what will
be the outcome of it all; but it is certain that
Austria has herself manufactured the greater
part of Der present difficulties. if she had
frankly aided the formation Of the great
Eervia.' instead of thwartlng it by every
means in her power, she could now snap her
fingers at the Russians.
DR.. Junker, in an interview to-day re-
garding his assertion on Thursday that
he was positive that Stanley had not
met with serious disaster, and that he
could not fairly assume that Emin had
been captured by the mahdi, said:
No one who has closely followed ENNIS
work will have much difficulty in finding
substantial reasons for disbelieving the
to the capture OF Stanley and Emin. In one
reSnect Osman Digna's Stoly appeArs 10 have