The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-09-16

dence of so keen an observer as this to
convince men that modern Prussian feu-
dalism is simply as unbearable as its rep
resentatives are personally insolent. Dis
satisfaction but thinly concealed in Prus-
STA and openly expressed elsewhere is
rapidly turning the expression Omitted
Germany into an empty phrase. Seldom
has the right divine to govern wrongly
been claimed at 50 pitifully inapt a mo :
ment by a crowned vet unbalanced head.
FAURE's RUSSIAN TRIUMPH.
| hear from private sources unstnted
praise of the great tact and almost arts
| tocratc simplicity and charm of manner
! displayed by President Faure during his
| Russian visit. An observer before whom
many diplomats have aired their more or
less successful graces in various European
courts declares that Felix Faure could not
have shown more perfect tact, skill and
address had he been trained under Lord
Dutferin himself, instead of having been
simply graduated in Bourgeois Havre.
| People forget, however that the Presi-
dent is a man who has travelled extensive
ly, and has had opportunities far in ex-
cess OF the many modern diplomats of
studying men and manners. He certain
| ly has not wasted those opportunities,
and the success in the old days of the
honest broker must give way to the I'M
doubted triumph of the honest tanner
Feliskoff, by which pet name many thou
sands of his countrymen know him so
well, could be dictator to- morrow if he
chose.
HANOTAUX'S UNOBTRUSIvE WORK.
Yet the French public has been wide
awake enough to grasp the fact that Pres
ident Faure'S success in the recent nego-
tiatiations at st. Peters burg, which have
resulted in the formation of a dual alli-
ance, owe something to the quiet, unob-
| trusive work of NJ. HanotauX. Silent al
most to a fault in his dealings with the
press and public, the French Foreign
Minister has in no sense courted public
| applause or endeayored to divert the
stream of popularity from the chief actor
in the Russian drama. Still, in Paris ON
Tuesday it was impossible to mistake the
spontaneous nature OF the cheers for Han
otauX, which i'll some parts of the capital
We're even louder than those for the Presi-
| dent himself. One other demonstration
of very different kind, though not less
earnest in the area to which it was clever
ly restricted, was that directed against
the German Emperor. This was repressed
with greater difficulty than is generally
believed, and most careful watch had to
/ be kept throughout the day by the statue
of Strasbourg, lest it be made the scene of
some still more violent declarations than
| the mere cries of Down with William. =
PARIS EXCITED.
Paris was indeed in d highly electrical
condition, and it says much for the sense
and vigilance of the police that no more
/ important explosion occurred than the
| tizzle of the toy watering can tilled with
| gunpowder which startled the good peo-
! pie around the Madeleine Church AL
| though this silliest of practical Jokes has
not been definitely brought home to its
author. it clearly was not the work of any
! professional anarchist. and, indeed. it has
been said that several letters have been
received by the police from anonymous
but expert, anarchists, disclaiming in in
| dignant terms the authorship of such
evidently amateur machinery.
FRANCE AND THE ALLIANCE.
Time alone will show the full political
meaning of the Russo French alliance,
and meanwhile men minds in France are
| too near the fever point to look at the
| matter steadily from a business point of
view. Eager TO draw a happy augury
from even the simplest coincidence, the
French Journals point with hope to the
circumstance that the P0thuna. with
President Faure on board, was passed at
sea by the French steamer Emile, belong
ing to line which has painted on its
| tunnels the arms of Alsace- Lorraine. 1t
hardly needed these funnels.to direct the
! gaze of the French to that dangerous
quarter. But nowadays everything is
charged in Paris with hidden meaning
Even the republics initials, ''R. F. are
held to be inwardly prophetic of Russia
and France.
JEWISH CONGRESS AT BASEL.
The Jewish Congress at Basel. convened
| by Dr.. Helzl of Vienna has aroused in
this country a deeper feeling than one of
mere curiosity 1t is not altogether a
dream that, as part of the final solution
of the Eastern question, Palestine might
! find itself neutral state, guaranteed by
the European powers. While in the
| hearts and heads of cultivated Enlishmen
the question of the return of the Jews to
their promised land has always exercised
! d StIoHS ldScllldtloU. dllHOuSI. DIS Il Iudl-
ter of practical politics, and realization of
the dream it has seemed to the outsider to
be in the far distance. Dr. Herzls plan of
direct purchase from the Sultan has the
flavor of the stock exchange, and pres
ents many grave difficulties of which,
perhaps, the least is the raising of some
hundred million dollars for this purpose
1t is curious to remember how the greater
side of this movement was foreshadowed
by the genius of George Eliot, who, in
''Danel Deronda," prophesies, through
the mouth of Mordecai, the coming of a
Jewish policy, grand, simple, just like
the old, and the dawn of day when the
outraged Jew shall have an equal defense
in the world of nations with the outraged
Englishman or American. This great
writer forecasts have ere now been veri-
fed in after history, though in this case
the fulfllment may not be the scheme
adopted by the Basel Congress.
FARMER AND HIGHER WHEAT.
English farmers are blessing what they
are pleased to consider the action of the
United States in causing the welcome rise
in the price of wheat. But they are still
puzzling their heads to discover what has
become of this YEAR S Russian crop. From
the point of view of the farmers of this