St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-24
WARS HORRID FRONT.
III. S. Fairchild Thinks 1t Will
Soon Be Barred in Europe.

Soon Be Barred in Europe.
II. S. Fairchild delivered a lecture at
the NJ. E. church last evening on the
European situation. He commenced by
giving few random sketches of scenes
in Europe, but devoted the major part of
the lecture to consideration of the pros
poets of war and its probable resu Its.
The keynote to the situation is the ag-
gressive spirit of the French people and
their mad love of glory, together with
by foreign brOiiS. The heavy losses in
flicted on other nations by France in
times past have given her compare
lively isolated situation and prediSposed
others to ally themselves with Germany,
as in the instance of Italy. Frances
new navy is second only to England'S,
but Italy has a remarkably fine Que,
especially in size and power of
vessels and guns. Italy and France are
both striving for maritime supremacy
on the Mediterranean, but in the event
of war Italy would suffer seriously, as
her cities are all ON the seacoast and
the chain of the Apprentices causes the
railroads to run along the coast. Ger
with the confide nee inspired by her
great gen erals, would leave little doubt
of a victory in land war. In case of
France cri ppling Italy by sea, England,
who must maintain her maritime SUI
premacy at all hazards, would doubt
less find some pretext for destroying
the Fren CHI navy. Civil disorder IS
looming up in France and the future
causes great apprehensions. Russia has
an answering policy of territorial ag-
gra Indictment, with special reference
to reaching the Mediterranean. Her
population is 100000, speaking forty
different languages; her territory COW
erS One-siXth OF the world, her resources
are vast. her purposes inflexible, and
Europe trembles at the increase of her
power. COnstantinople is what Russia
covets, so that she can become a mari
time power. and make stand against
the united forces of Europe. With this
in view, Austria and Germany have
sunk their former differences and
formed an alliance, in which Italy
uuites in case Of trouble with France,
while Lord Palmerston's pledge of the
use of the British navy still holds good.
Servia and Bulgaria must not be omit
ted from the calculation; though
their armies are small their posi-
little doubt as to the result of a war
with Russia, even if France joined the
latter, but it is impossible to predict the
results of a naval war, as the change in
war ships has been so great, and almost
all are untried. Speaking of Russia
Mr.. Fairchild said: THAT such horde
of semi-savageS, of whom only IL in
100 of the soldiery can read, where only
one in fifty attended school, where the
clergy are ignorant and drunken, where
there is tyranny the most brutal the
world has eyer known, where the
groans and signs of Siberia sadden and
fill with horror the world, should domi-
nate England, France, Germany, Italy
and the other enlightened European
states, is intolerable. Russia is the
sworn foe of progress, the en-
envy of liberty, the bulwark of
remorseless of all tyrannies; she is the
great blot on humanity'S eScutcheOn;
shame and disgrace to the century, in
whose arrest and punishment all man.
kind has an interest" He pointed out
that while no one dreams that England
or any of the other European powers
desire career of continental conquest,
the heavy ornaments cause such i'm
menSe drafts ON their treasures that
they may have to face war in order to
insure their permanent peace. He con-
Guided thus: 81 can not help thinking,
looking the whole field over, that
though war for several years has been
expected and has not come, yet that
soon the world will tremble under the
march of such mighty hosts as
were never before marshaled in
battle array, with arms in
theirs hands immensely more de-
structive thanever before known; and
that the result will be on the side of
civilization and humanity. Let US
thank Almighty God that we live on a
continent nearly all our own. with no
dangerous enemy near, with cause to
fear none abroad, and, approaching
more and more the high principles and
sacred duty of American citizenship,
forever maintain the union and pre-
serve liberty. in the hope that the bea-
con fires of liberty on our shores will
ultimately illuminate the world; that
self-government should prevail every
everywhere, the world become broth
erhood of free people and wars be
known no more"