Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-01
GermanY's Peace Power.

Not in decade has the peace not only
of Europe but of the world been appa-
rently go profound. With the exception
of the Indian hostilities in this country
and conventional South American revo-
luton, there has been neither war nor
rumor of war for months. The German
Emperor has disappointed the wiseacres
who professed TO believe that there was
nothing good in him and that his sole am
bition was for military glory. He has been
attending largely to the business of his
own domains and letting that of other
countries alone. France has to oil intents
been pursuing the even tenor of her way,
and even that fruitful subject of specula-
ton, the Eastern question, has not afforded
basis for tangible prediction of imme-
date trouble.
The Russian bear fails to exhibit the
usual signs of restlessness in Central Asia.
! The Caucasus movement, which was but
another development of Russia's policy
| touching the Hope Of Moscow" seems
to be at stand-still and Pan-Slavic
| intrigue in Bulgaria, that plague spot
on the map of Europe" and adjacent
| Balkan States, is only observable in
ftful flashes. Egypt is quiet, and
on the face of things conflicting
European interests on the borders of the
rest of the Dark Continent are in fair way
of settlement. The triple alliance, backed
by British influence and diplomacy, stands
guard in the gates of the Temple of Janus
4 ! olneaA ErapE onA
| Turk and Cossack, Teuton and Briton, are
| in repose.
| But are they not resting on their arms?
At present there is no sign of European
| disarmament. That state of preparation
which is sapping the life-blood of the CONT
mental nations and in some aspects Is more
terrible than active campaigning continues.
The millennium is not in sight. The embers
are only covered up: they have not been
| stamped out
The Magyars, the dominating element
in FRANcIs JosEPH's polyglot possessions,
have forgiven the house of Hapsburg, but
the wounds that Russia gave them IN their
last great struggle, and which were fatal to
their hopes of autonomy have never healed.
| They hate the Colossus of the North
| for the past no less than they fear Pan
! Slavism in the future, France still burns
| for revenge upon Germany. The crescent
| is still over st. Sophia 10 excite the ambi-
ton of the Romanof dynasty and afford
excuse for another demonstration upon
Constantinople at the first convenient sea-
son. British guns are still in position to
enforce the command given to the Gar
after the treaty of ST. Stephano, "Thus far
shalt thou go, and no further" and sus-
tain the Ottoman sway over the Bospho
rus aud the Dardanelles.
Let link fall out of the Dreibund or {
break OCCUR in the wall Of steel that inter.
yenes between France and Russia and
there Is no telling what week may bring
forth.
Germany appears today the most con-
tented and self-contained of the great
Powers of the continent. She has no out
side ambition affecting the rights of any
of her neighbors unless 1t be an ambition
10 reach the Sea through the Netherlands,
aud there England bars her way. 1t has
been rumored several times recently, only
10 be quickly denied. that WILLIAM of Ger
many is in favor OF partial disarmament
Whether he be or not. 1t appears that hi
has been laboring TO bring about that Ger
man homogenity which would be essential
10 such an end Should he succeed il
welding together the interests OF the
various German States. which are now very
diverse save on the one point Of impera