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Franco AMI Her troubles.
1t wouldn't be surprising to see France
close the nineteenth century as a mon.
archy. The French people love the show
and glitter Of a court.-Boston Traveller.
Altogether, France presents a picture Of
y utter decentralization, in what is supposed
to be high civilization, that should be a
warning to other MISUNDERSTANDING Dis
patch.
All men who sincerely desire the main
tenance of the French republic will hope
for the triumph Of the civil authority, for
otherwise a ound republican system OF
government is not possiblc.-Omaha Bee.
France should not make the mistake OF
going to war with a foreign foe in order
to prevent trouble at home. Spain tried
that and, in addition to getting licked, re-
tanned her domestic woe.-Washington
Post.
This is the first time since the republic
was founded that the congress of France
has subordinated the civil to the military
power. Unless Frenchmen are unlike 9TH
er ~nationalities they are dangerously near
a observation-disclosures City Times.
The Brisson ministry, opposing revision,
found in July a solid chamber behind 1t.
The Brisson ministry in October advocat.
ing revision, finds itself beaten by 29U
against 243. Evidently truth is mighty
and will prevail.-Ncw York Times.
II there were in France now a strong,
bold, ambitious MAJ he would have a great
opportunity. Such a man could lift the
Government off its hinges. But there is
no such man. Franco has no Danton, no
Napoleon L., not even a Napoleon ILL.,
Atlanta Journal.
The present crisis was brought about
by rascality and corruption c%ndeavorina
to conceal rascality and corruption. The
Dreyfus case is at the bottom of it, and
the Drcyfus case may pull down the re-
public before it is well over with.-Mcm-
phis Commercial-Appeal.
Paris is kept in order only by the display
Of a large military force and there is no
certainty that the military and the mob
might not at any moment fratcrnizc. or
that part of the military might not side
with ~ mob or another part with Il rival
mob.-Clcvcland Plain Dealer.
The French republic is that only in
name. 1t has already fallen. 1t now only
remains to determine what sort of Governs
mcit will follow the ~dcspotism which the
army is i'll Il fair way to establish by tho
Will of the people, and which itself can.
not Observation-Disclosures Times.
Once France at the sound of foreign
alarm rushed to repel the assault of the
oppressor on her borders, no matter vera
his forces fivefold her own. Now when
inc same note is struck it incites her only
10 the tlerccr persecution OF the oppressed
within her boundaries.-New York Press
Under whatever nominal form the nc.
tual administration in France is essential
" military. While this is in one sense a
security, it is always n cause of weakness
in the civil government, and just now tho
drift appears to be toward some sort Of
ayowed Observation-Disclosures Times.
AS long as militarism prevails in France
it can be a republic but in name. The pro.
motion of the rights of the people, the cs.
Enlistment of personal freedom and all
The clements which enter into republican
government are at war with the idea OF
military suprcmacy.-Atlanta Constitu.
ton.
The internal weakness of France at the
moment of England's aggressive stand on
the Fashoda question, causing the for.
mer's pitiablc reputation of Marchand's
mission, was largely due to the demoraliz-
Ing effects Of the Dreyfus scandal in its
influence upon the national spirit.-St.
Louis Republic.
Spain Takes the Debt.
That Spain has consented to assume
that debt means to the holders Of Smin's
sccuritics-not alone OF the Cuban bonds,
but of practically every description moi
specially guaranteed-serious loss.-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
A nation laundering in practical hank.
ruptcy has no ally. 1t is getting ready
TO be dismcmbered and sold out by its
creditors or to seek Il power that will as
sumo its debts at the cost of absorbing II
entirc.-Boston Globe.
The game was well worth playinp. nnA
it is no wonder, therefore, that the Spon.
ish commissioners went to the verge Of
breaking off negotiations in their efforts
to win. But American frmuess and In.
sistcnce upon tile terms of the protocol
nave trlumphed and Spain yields at last to
ire inevitable. She cannot shift the pen.
atty Of her wrong doings in Cuba upon
ner conquerors.-Detroit Free Press.
But it should be made clear to Spain
that the purpose of the United States in
liis war was to free Cuba from oppres.
SION. One Of the grossest and most noto.
rlons forms of oppression was the effort
TO saddle Cuba not only with the debt ere.
ated for her subjugation, but with scores
Of millions of Spanish stealings in addi.
ton. To permit any of that burden to be
perpetuated would be n gratuitous nullii-
cation Of cur object in this war.-Pitts.
burg Dispatch.
Col George r. Warning.
In his youth Col. Warning fought for tho
honor of his country. In his advanced nee
he cheerfufly accepted a mission to pro.
mote her safcty.-New York Journal.
II. in the irony Of fate. one of the ereat.
est sanitary experts in the United States
die in the pursuit of his duty, we can
honor his memory in no better way thar
by seeing that his sacrifice is not In vain.
Philadelphia Press.
Col. Warning was a brave soldier, and an
expert OF whose quality his fellow-Ameri. I
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