Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-19
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

Or the i've hyc-elcctionS that have recently
taken place in England, in two of them the
tories lost seats they already held, in one
they have increased their majority by seven,
and in the remaining two the liberals have
retained their seats by increased naiorities.
The defeat OF the tories IN North Bucking-
hamshrc, an agricu tural and tory county,
whcrc, under absolutely similar conditions,
the figures of the last election have been re-
vcrscd has naturally spread panic Through
the lberal-unionist ranks, ana is leading
some people to expect dissolution of para-
ment. But it is plain enough that the more
certain the libcral-uni0nists become that
they will be Gvicted whenever the voters get
a chance at them, the more strenuously they
will oppose dissolution. Tho en-
forcement of the crimes act in
Ireland furnishes a substantial
reason for Il change of votes. For it has
been perfectly manifest that the victims of
Mr.. 8alfour's policy of coercion have been
prosecuted and punished simply for beng
representative Irishmen. The inspiration
of the policy was Il hatred of Irishmen as
such, ana the same kind of desire toward
them that tradition ascribes to Nero with
regard to the Romans. AS it was not prac-
tiCable TO eXterminate the Irish people. it
seemed to have been resolved to decimate
them. Really. this is the only explanation
of the programme carried out by Mr.. Bal
four. 1t was apparent to everybody that
the men chosen for prosecution had done no
more than all lrishmen were engaged in
doing and were not in the least ashamed of
doing. The object of the prosecution was to
overawc the whole Irish. people and TO pre-
vent them from even publicly advocating
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feet was simply to make heroes and martyrs,
in the popular estimation, of the men
| whom Lord Salisbury's administration, with
singular ignorance of the Irish nature,
and indeed of human nature in general, had
undertaken to defamc and 10 render impo-
| tent.
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Perhaps the strongest comment on the
| present condition of affairs in Russia was
| furnished by the careful arrangements
| made to protect the life of tho czar on his
| homeward journey from Berlin to St.
| Petersburg. From Berlin to the German
| frontier the road taken by tho car was
| guarded by German infantry and cavalry.
so arranged that not an inch of the track
| was beyond the sight of a watchful soldier.
| The life of the emperor of all the Russias is
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approaches his own dominions the danger
increases thousand.fold. 1t turks at every
railroad station in Russia and may spring
up at any point of the road. TO guard
against 1t $4,000 men are patroling the
track from the German frontier to st.
Petersburg-a large army engaged in the
one business Of watching over the safety oil
one of the greatest 1nonarchs of the earth.
The humblest peisant in hls broad EMPIRE
| if he has the wisdom to keep his mouth shut,
| can count VITA reasonable certainty on liY-
ing until death comes to him in the due
course of nature, The emperor, less fortu-
nate than the peasant, has the reasonable
certainty of eventually falling, as his father
did, at the hand Of the assassin.
One of the incidents of the banquet given
TO the car by Emperor William in Berlin
| will undoubtedly strengthen the war scare
| When the czar's health was proposed by tbs
| emperor, in German, which tho czar speaks
| fuently, aud had been speaking thr ough the
| dInner, he responded briefly and drily iu
French, a language now tabooed at the Ger
man court. That this was done intention
| ally there does not seem TO be any doubt.
Its object was, of course, to show that he
was still dissatisfied with Germany, and that
France was his best friend. That such little
freaks of one man should have such immense
political Importance in our day seems odd
enough, but immense importance they will
have as long as there are men whose indl
yidual word can put million of soldiers in
in motion.
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The Italian government has formally an.
nounced that it has assumed protectorate
over Abyssinia. In the long scramble for
African possessions Italy, least conspicuous
in the rivalry, has, after all, drawn the chief
prize. The millions OF people who dwell on