The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-26

nalisbury,s Chamber or Horrors In meet street
ana Itn Political Services


| campaign OF tho London press against tho Cor
man Emperor. He will learn much from 1t.
1t will DO remembered that a few years ago
the most revolving exhibit In tho Fleet street
chamber of horrors was Alexander III. or Rus
sia. This sovereign was regarded then as tho
backbone of continental opposition to British
schemes in Asia and Southeastern Europe. He
refused to carry Goals for Downing street. He
actually spurned an alliance in which he was to
furnish tho fighting men and England was to
furnish tho diplomacy. Ho followed ex-
clusively Russian interests. That made him a
bad, cruel, unciviliZed man to the mind of tho
London editor. Such a man was certainly a ht
subject for all the vituporation and SANDER that
could be manufactured in Fleet street. For
moro than ten years, consequently, the world
was alarmed by British reports of Nihilist up
risings that wcro to upset the Romanoffs, Of
Russian preparations for war that was to be let
loose on Europe. OF atrocious cruelty p~ractisod
habitually by the Russian Government on mil
lions Of Its subjects, and Of spreading intrigue
and cabal which kept tho monarch on the Neva
as II bereft Of reason, justice. and intelligence.
Alexander III. died without having experienced
revolution, without having broken the peace of
Europe. without having depopulated his en-
pire by massacre, or estranged his subjects from
the crown by cruelty.
If a person looks back at the English news-
papers Of ten years ago and then considers the
respectable figure which Alexander III. In In
retrospect, he will begin to marvel at tho cease-
less denunciation, falsehood, and vili6cahon
which the London press heaped upon him. to the
confusion Of the whole English.spoaking people
during his reign. He will marvel at the gull
bility of the British and American public which
swallowed whole tho lies pcddled out from
London and then ragged In blatant wrath against
tho monster" on tho throne Of the Cars.
Finally no will marvel at the credulity of the
same public which after being ~palpably swindled
for years. to suit the purposes of the British
Foreign Office. is now ready TO gulp down the
same old stercotyped falsehoods, altered merely
by the substitution of " William IL" for "Alex.
ander III"
the Paris Government. compelled EnEland to
She had buildozei Belgium Into giving her, he
was a candidate for Alexander Ills place IN
with Austria, both In OPPOSITION to ENGLAND dur
"peace and civilization" He vas another ty-
der III. The old lies were brought out; the old
mud was dug up.
or The s oSIm}Rsis nat q v yitmpe trs %ar SToso tr loos' the he
AUSTRIAN Ambassador in Berlin that Austria;
Germany; and Russia would not ALLOW england
Hellenic conflict or to overwhelm the Transvaal:
Emperor William was supposed In England TO
Standing. and thus he forfeited his last claim TO
the consideration Of the Downing street and
Fleet street combination.
Now what was the RESULT Look at last sgn-
days cable dispatches. sent from London under
Emperor and Empress booted in the streets OF
berlin; the Empress oyercome by me demon,
Of the troops before the appointed time; and
oh, horrors!-a decoration given her by Qneen
p Wiee9ri al lost eon n fhe tho Ssn ssvePi'y Of ah tho En- Emperor Re~s;
,n ses sIdng x th1 n See syoye back tke from sn1iali fas
at a banquet; Prince Henry has given MP his
imperial brother as a bad Job, because Of the .
terribly chngrined over the result % the Tausch
trial. &c. II such things be in Berlin; surely
dogs, Is the inference intended to be drawn.
As II to drive home this inference, an ENGLISH
nicus." comos out in the Contemporary Rcric,o
with a TRADE against the Emperor. Germanicus
that precautions for 1sse mGtestS multiply. that
the nobility are johhinv NIL the fat Offices. that
being driven daily into the ranks Of the Social
Democracy. that the Government has fallen vic.
police laws will restore tranquility. and
Ara , the h. SP;sopls .nm are .i lSHS!nF p .Gr T sSn4ss
man Mugwump. is defiant and "fearlessly
cyclus~tyranny bioodthirstiness. war. revoiu.
tion-hrouGht out now to do service against
I. England's chief continental opponent, William
H.. ms 1t was brought out to do service against
AlexSndsT III; years ago; It sec seems n hH y hH
In the first place. one hoot doesn't make a revo-
r luton In Germany or one hootcr 2 mob, Prus;
occasionally SIMILAR sounds OF disnrproval. Tho
complnint against the barricading Of streets
i HlH"s The at 'mEffT'''r Tho Ts", soci Is s &: Se1c as ha sRs
been known to toas, or cheer for any German : r ian
= | nprinl nOlitipa and ia no moro inclined 10 cnfTy
Goals for England than Is his brother. The
statement ahou, his fricndliress for ENGLAND Is
: lettor. forged in London. making Bismrrk ex.
8 press EcSrGt that he was not horn an English:
tongue on trial and thereby saved the
t r r%n H F." From nj" the '0 Emrer %%''s'o point sao" Of
y LEY TausCh could not have dong better
. by Bismarck; It fourished under, him as never
before or since: It is more than thirty years old
Tho German nobility always have had the hest
t offices; The Tnrosocnt,ons for Zee ;noirstS wsr.
t p p@es's% Fl Ts n9T;" they. too. 's are eesd Subjects s% Of
t ccompl,in.. Tho cry against police laws dNts'
u man system Of government since there has beer
a Germany or a Prussia. The assertions about
bare scarecrows Of Fleet street, badly over
, worked ever since 1870.
N harmless. old Grandmother Richter. the LAIR,
v Godkin OF Germany. who has been "defant'
, and "bittcrly critical" for nearly forty years
hut mover has had tho good luck TO catch th'
d English ear cxcept when Downing street needed
a his aid to discredit German government and Il
expose tho terrible dolngs OF the German oppo
nent. Whom tho English correspondent conn"
d down TO quoting Richter a person may be sur
\, befoul the antagonist of ''peace and civiliza
tion.'
To state tho case in a nutshell: All this huhbu'
against the German Emperor is raised in Lon
re- don md sprend over the world merely hecaus
- tho EmnRror Ia In n raQt-trOu continental rom
bination which utterly refuses to let Englan'
get Crete or the Transvaal. or to allow her Il
Ia profit In any other way from the confusion 4
- Europe. "To fish in muddy waters IL ENGLAND
. favorite occupation, as described in st. Peters
70 burg. Berlin. and Vienna. hut she may not d.
ut 1t this time; hence her wrath.
It Is noteworthy TINT England is the onl
- country which %gratifies her spite In such case
" by ~vilifying and slandering the sovereign VIII
In opposes her diplomatic policy. Neither tn
Russian nor tho German nor tho French pres
replies TO tho English biliingsgato by assaiiin
Queen Victoria.