Arizona republican., 1898-09-07
THE CARS CONGRESS.

ACCOTUlQS lO tuc CZdl OCllluS, uui- versal psace is to be inaugurated and permanently kept through congress Iot all nations. This is the plain mean ing Of his proposition, although by the wording Of his proposal only the pow ers having representatives at his court were to be invited to participate. IT is obvious that the imperial proposal could be officially communicated to none others than those powers having official communication with Russia, but it is not probable that Montenegro with 100000 inhabitants, because it al- ways has ar agent at the court of it's giant protector would be allowed to participate iii the management of the worlds dessinies, while Brazil, with 1S,000,000 Of people, would have no voice in it, simply because it might be unrepresented at S.. Petersburg.
 Of course, If the dream of Nicholas is to be inars,arated in working form, the world; congress of arbitrators Will be constituted in accordance with the wishes of 6 majority Of the powers which accept the czar's proposition If the proposed conference is held and is participated in by all Of the nations having official intercourse with Russia the six great powers Of. Europe will te largely outnumbered by the smaller towers. The lesser powers are Tur- key, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Bel gium, Rounlania, Netherlands, Portu- gal, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Seryia and Montenegro Even if the United StaGes and Japan should parti- cipate in the peace scheme, the united votes of the eight great powers of the world would be overborne by the votes of the twelve minor states of Europe, the sixteen Spanish, Portuguese and cc1ored republics of America and the four inferior tChina, Corea, Siam and Persia) nati 'ns of Asia.
 It is evident that the great powers of the earth would not be willing to sub init their interests to the judicature of
 
 less they were to have a voice in the deliberations in some measure corre- spending to their Importance. On the ether hand, if the smaller powers were to be mere puppets in the hands of the larger ones they might conclude that they were better off outside of khe concert" and the worlds congress W culd thus be cut down to an assem- blaze of the representatives of the eight great nations.
 Nor is it conceivable that either the United States, CT Great Britain, or Japan would te willing to submit their great interests to the arbitrament of continental Europe. Suppose. for in stance, that the czar's scheme had been :n operation last spring, and the Cuban question had been presented to it. In such an event the five continental pow lers would certainly have decided against US and we would have been compelled to submit.
 Russia, Germany and France could always compel the adhesion Of Austria and Italy to their wishes, because the armies of the latter could not defend tLeir territories against the over whelming forces of the former. Conse- quently Britain, America and Japan would be constantly at the mercy of continental Europe in the adjustments of a worlds peace congress. It may be assumed, therefore, that net one Of the three will join the concert if one is formc l.
 On the other hand, the formation Of such psace-bund is practically inn possible without their participation, as such a rnion would inevitably force the three obiecting powers into Q triple alliance for mutual defence. The re- suit would he that the world would be divided into two great hostile camps and the wariike armaments of the na- tons would be increased rather than diminished.