Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-12-14
NO. 1877
BISMARCK ON WAR scAREs..

In His Opiuion Neither Trnrcc. Nor RuO-
f sia Ia Thinking OF nostilitics-
"Why grant this enormous pcaoo
strength?" asked bismarck ~lfilc talls
ing with London Times correspon-
dent recently. who will be the con-
qucror in the future? He who can win
the first two or three battles, and those
battles will no moro he fought by mil
lions Of armed men than they have
hitherto been, but by some two or thrce
hundred thousand men ut most. Large
rlasScs cannot DC directed by a single
general, not even with the help of q
balloon. The chief things, as hitherto,
will be good leadership and superior
tactics, and for these an enormous i'm
crease in the army affords no kind OF
guarantee. With our present forces we
can perfectly we'll operate on two fronts
if VIC have the right kind of leadership.
Count Caprivi himself spoke not SO long
ago with conviction against la rage dee
nombrcs.' WHY'S he ali of q sudden
converted to belief in numbers, and
mere numbers?
Again, we are told that the danger
of war is greater. j, for my part, can
not see it. On the contrary, believe
that war cannot break out for the next
two or three years. France is incom-
parably more peaceful and less ready
to strike out than she was in 1888.
Then BoulanTcr had to but'prcss the
button and his dynasty was founded.
Now any form Of monarchy is more
dangerous to the maintenance Cf peace
with Germany than. the republic. A
! monarchy would find IL E.lulh easier to
| conclude alliances with Inonarchical
| states. especially with russia.
That thc present rulers on tho ban!:s
| OF tho Sci.,c arc not Thinking of war is
| shown by tho papal blessing they havo
| asked and obtained fer the republic.
: Tnc pope has done tl6 10 harm in grant
| ing it, for its effect was to lay the
| spirit Of internal strife in Franco, to
/ satisfy tho great and universal and sim
cerc desire of tho French people for
peace andt3 mako things SMOOTHER and
easier for those in power. The latter,
! moreover, know quite we'll that tho
| iir . thing Il victorious French general
would do would be to sweep them away
with ~ di3tator's broom. AS for Rus
sin, IL is the fashion to describe her aS
painting for war with Germany. But
who wants war IN Russia? Sot th9
| car. lie Is 4 cuutiouG gentlemen, who
! aSI.S lGr nOCnlHE Dtyouu peace allo
: quiet at homo SO long Us he con get it.
The vast majority OF the Russian pco-
| pie do not want war. Tho only warlilSo
| clcmcnta in Russia are the press, the
Poles nnd the JowS."
| ESiIN i'-lsIrA is reported to he, IN des-
ituLo circumstances and is living with
| II Arab at Lahore, being unable to
| ave uN1li lie gets help,
pKI%,'.: GEORGE Of Wales is said to be
! cry ra:.u Of taking one Of his sistcrs
| Il: for ~ stroll in the shops Of Buclling-
.an palace road when they arcin Lon-
! OH. ."...
| CALvERLEY- the young Toronto ath-
etc. who walked over Niagara falls on
wire cu1lc, is going to repeat the per-
>rmarca ncXt July with n newspaper
lan nn his back.
| MIR. GLADSTONE still adlleres to llia
:fc-lonG habit of rising about half-past
ivc duiIy-an hour that most other
1'Iat mon of the period would consider
hcon6sia ianably, carly for getting up.
,Ic and Mrs. Gladstone attend church
every morning.
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