Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-05
TIE GERMAN EMPEROR AND THE
RUSSIAN MENACE.

yOr Mgyl
The German Emperor shares with
the hcst-inf0rmcd men In his army the
belief that Russia Intends TO attack
him Mt the earliest convenient oppOt.
tunity. IL IN not tho Car that II
urging war. Those who know ihR.
monsrch will scout the idea. He loves
peace and quiet, aud does not wish 10
be disturbed. How long he eau make
his ers1nal Wishes prevail We cannot
say, for he may have 10 choose be-.
tween war AMI dlsquietlug agitation.
His ministers, who soc more clearly
than their master, realize that the
economical condition VI Russia has
been going FROM tad 10 .wOIst under n
system Of protection ami repression
that. has no parallel IN modern times.
Commercial enterprise IL hgmperud by
swarm Of police, who are able 10
levy blHckmail upon any brakeman
who is not "prOtectcd." lnjuty Of
every kind IL carefully suhed, end
even French newspapers arc "blaekrd
outv by tho censor " they contain
news contrary to police wishes. Popu.
lar jiscDntent exists, anu II Is the
object Of the government 10 divert at.
tontlOn from domestic affairs to this
enemy beyond.
Russia's active hatred Of Germany
dates from ISIS, aud Ia one OF the many
legRcles OF the Bismprck era. Every.
one remembers that tho Russian army
was Ia sight OF Constantinoplc, anu
was prepared 10 take possession, when
England interfered. Tho Russians
returned from the war expecting TO
receive from the Berlin Congress, IN n
diplomatic way all that they had given
up on the battlefield. In this they
were mistaken, amt their Ambassador
returned from Berlin TO tell his neople
that the fruits OF the war OF 1877 had
been lost 10 them through German
perlldy. From that day to this hatred
OF Germany has been preached as the
national gospel Of Russia, and In this
hatred have been Included Jcws, Poles,
Swedes, Finns--in short, all the un.
orthodox whose civilization draws in.
SEPARATION from the western neiehbor.
"Russia for the Russiaus!" Is now the
cry, aud the orthodox Russian church
shouts louder than any one In the con-
gregatlun.
The present German Emperor fore.
Swallowed RusslR's attitude OF today
throne. He has been nearly four years
Ia power, and has not only not de.
clared war, but has not made a single
wlrilke demonstration Of n practical
kind. His military family, II may
uso the expression, are ready TO antici.
pate the blow OF Russia; but Germany
keeps the peace because her Emperor
IL too conscientious to prccipitato the
conflict. Personally he In deeply
panied by the hostile attitude OF the
Russian government; his efforts In the
direction " closer commercial inter.
course have been met 10y sullen obIec.
ton; he has been treated with personal
discouriesy by the Car; his own PEG.
PIE are outraged by the daily account OF
persecution TO which the Germans In
| Russia are subjected; he knows that
tho line OF tho Narew, tho Niemen,
and the Vis,ula Is fortified by chain
OF strong forts, and that kirghis Cos
snchs patrol all the roads crossing his
frontier. lie Ia perfectly well aware
that France IL ready to co operate with
Russia, and that her forces are better
organized than ever before.
The German Emperor il not unpOp-
ular In Germany. This fact cannot bu
too strongly presented, because many
important consequences How from IL.
| He has done many things to disquiet
moderate Liberals; has done things in.
dicating disposition 10 assume respOn.
aihility which might better be shared
with Parliament. He han made many
| impromptu speeches which a prime
minister would cheeriully have ~.
called, he has written texts which n
strlctly constitutional ruler would wish
RELOCATED to privacy. Granted all this
and much more, for the sake OF argu'
ment, let us com, 10 what no has POSI-
tiyoly done, H. order TO understand
Why, In spite OF this, hc Us Emperor IN
tho German heart IN well IA n the
German army. lie has shown himself
accessible to complaints from all claisu,
OF tho community, and has Interested
himself Ia remedies; he has abolished
the special laws against socialism with
most excellent recalls, he has removed
much OF the Irritation on the French
frontier; he has met the grlov
nncep OF the Polish Prussians
iu the same spirit; he has shown
a libefality In dealing with the presl
and platform agilatOrs unknown In
| Hismarckis day; he has inAuguratvd u
commercial policy which, u not fre,
trade, is n complete denial OF the
principle that oue clats has u right tC
| enrich Itself at the expense OF another;
he has drawn together the trade rela
tions VI Germans 30 wisely that Vienna
Budapest aud Berlin seem now lit,
slater cities OF free federation, and
has spread the blessing Of commercla
freedom more widely than was ever be-
fore known In Europe; no has inst
l tu.ed legislation for the benefit o.