The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19
UNDER GERMANY'S HEEL.
ITALY WAS MEYER IN SUCH 4 CON-
DITION AS AT PRESENT.

Germans Are Sucking the Life Blood From
the Veins of tho Italians and Keeping
Them Trembling on the Verge of Bank
ruptoy.
Rome March 1, 1895.
To the Editor OF the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
If all roads lead to Rome; conversely,
all roads must lead away from Rome.
II all thoughts turn to Rome; converse
ly, Rome must be the one place for in
dulging in those profound, restful, phil,
osophic and comprehensive thoughts
about everything and everybody which
benefit the thinker, inform and refresh
mankind and mark stages of progress.
Never in history has Italy been so
completely and abjeotly subject to
Germany as at present. Frederick
Barbarossa never had his heel so firm
ly spiked in the neck of ITALY as has to-
day William II. of Prussia. And the
most marvellous part of it is that the
subsection has been SO skillfully
brought about as to appear voluntary
to the Italians as an act Of their own
free will and choice. The French, who
| delivered them from the hated rule of
Austria, with whom they are almost
one in language. race, temperament
and faith-so far as either have any
who are their natural allies, and upon
whom depend their financial standing
and their commercial success, are
| loathed While the Germans, from
whom they have nothing to gain; who
are sucking the life's blood from their
veins, and whose exactions keep them
constantly trembling on the edge of
bankruptcy are loved. So deeply down
in the entrails of the Italian soul have
hate, distrust and suspicion of France
been rooted by the marvellous processes
of Bismarck's willy policy, that wonder
is divided between the completeness of
the accomplishment and the remoteness
of a possibility of a change. 1t is evil
dent that italian thought is not left to
itself for moment; for it would GER
tainly flow back to its natural chan
nels. Whence comes the force, and
how applied, are the mysteries; myster-
les Of the most extraordinary diploma
cy of the second half of the century
Italy has allowed itself to be so blinded
that it can no longer see the cat's-paw
uses to which it is being put; that its
army is only to serve as the left wing
OF the German forces in the next Fran
co-Germah war; that its fleet is only to
draw the fire of the French fleet while
German vessels assume the offensive
with impunity Italy's false position
has been so long maintained that now
it might be continued purely as a mat
ter of pride. No minister would dare
to speak the truth, though he knew and
felt it. The poor little khedive of
Egypt is no more completely in the
hands of his protectors, the English,
than is Italy in the hands of her pro
tectors of the triple alliance. How gro
tesquely unnatural that no French yes
sci should stop at an italian port; no
italian ship set sail for a French har-
Dor! The death of the Arch Duke AL |
bert of Austria calls attention to the |
third party of the triple alliance-Al- |
bert-F'reder eric dolphe--Dominique |
duke of Teschen; imperial and royal |
Austrian field-marshal, son
of the emperor's grandfather, has just
been buried with every circumstance of
pomp which the parties to the alliance
could render, and with all the heartfelt
loving people could mani
fest. 1t is not necessary to be very old
to recall the time when Kossuth and
his Hungarian followers preached that
the Habsbourgs were a race of blood
thirsty tyrants, delighting in the gore
Of liberty-loving patriots; addicted to
vindictive butchery; at home in rapine,
murder and lust. When the traveller of
to-day, imbued with such notions Wis
Its Austria, he needs time of surprise to
ind sovereign more beloved than amy
other sovereign of Europe; kind, gentle,
adored by all classes, the
lNpical ruler of loyal and devoted
people. The emperor Is in his sixty
fifth year; has never been robust and Is
broken beneath the burdens of family
affection. The mad and bloody ending
If his son and heir is not yet forgotten;
he cratic conduct of semi-crazy wife ]
$ a constant grief. His Affections have
endered him more dear to his subjects,
10 dear that his personality is the S
trongest bond among the heterogene- j
,us races over whom he rules. When
lie dies what may happen! There are !
10 natural ties between Hungarian and {
4erman, Cervat and Bohemian. The I
-lory and the prestige of the Austrian c
mpire were destroyed at Sadowa, {
Why should people so diverse hold to- s
ether! The emperor's brother, the r
resent heir, is unpopular his son is /
till more so. 1t is reported that the &
mperor, If he could. would break the '
'ragmatic sanction and pass the crown +
D a granddaughter in the hope that d
II hearts might be loyal to her tender u
outh and gentle beauty. AS Berlin 1
rows strong and glorious Vienna fades h
nd is neglected. The old song: les s
iebt nur Elm Kaiserstadt" is still true, n
ut Berlin is the city, not Vienna. w. v
7, Phelps said that Kaiser Wilhelm v
ad the ways and manners of con- b
cited school-boy. Yet he is a kingly Il
nap and his subjects seem to like him Il
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