The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-26
OUR w AR WITH SPAIN
WILHELM uEBNECHT's VIEWS AND
PROPHECY CONCERNING 1T.
No European Power VIII Enter the Lists
Against Us. He says-The War Is About
to Usher In a New Era. He Believes. In
International Politics.

International Politics.
Wilhelm Liebnecht is the Charles
Stewart Parnell of German socialism
What he has TO say in Judgment upon
and prophecy concerning our war with
Spain would, i'll any case, be of great
interest, and the American reader will,
it is believed, struck by its clear in.
sight into the status quo, be inclined to
accept bis predicted results as highly
probable.
'As war pure and simple, writes
Liebnecht. 1.-THE Hispano- American |
passage at arms plays no role at all in |
the arena of universal politics. Even |
our stock spectators, whose nervous |
ness is ever commensurate with their |
ignorance of international affairs, APP
preciate that, for despite variety of |
bearish maneuvers the money market |
has remained firm. This state of affairs |
is easily explained by the absolute GER
tainty of the outcome. Two things are
clear as the light of day-in its contest
with the giant republic the 'proudest
and most orthodox monarchy of Eu-
rope is as a mouse matched against
cat, and not one of the European mon
arches will be quixotic enough to enter
the lists against the giant plebeian re-
public and thus itself commit suicide.
1.-THE threatened intervention of the
powers will be careful to remain out
of cannon range and will at best seek
to cover the certain defeat of the most
orthodox monarchy with golden plas-
ter and endeavor to prevent the entire
collapse of its rickety throne-if indeed
so much be possible, which is very
problematical and inconsequential. For
who would care were this 'proudest and
most orthodox of all the European mon
arches to collapse? Surely its fall were
well deserved.
THAT this historic Nemesis seems
about to overtake woman of relatively
sympathetic qualities and her helpless
child may, humanity speaking, seem
tragic, but in politics sentiment is as
much out of place as sentimentality
Such q catastrophe would by no means
be an adequate atonement for the five
centuries of persistent crimes against
humanity and civilization OF which
this 'proudest and most orthodox mon
archy of Europe has been guilty, nor
can a mere high school boy even have
occasion to lament the fact that i'll the
final accounting, when the times at last
are ripe for the inevitable catastrophe,
the relatively innocent must suffer for
or with the guilty-as the sins OF his
fathers were visited upon the head OF
Louis XVI.
From this standpoint, | repeat II,
the Hispano- American war presents no
novel aspect, and still it is about TO
usher i'll new era i'll international poll
tics; for hitherto the American repub-
lie has maintained steadtast neutrality
in matters not involving the western
hemisphere. That policy is now OF the
past.
"Since gaining its national independ-
ence through the successful issue OF the
Revolutionary war and its commercial
independence through the war OF 1919
both against its mother country-as q
nation the United States has consistent
ly RETAINED from meddling IN European
affairs, however intensely the generous
svmpathies and resentments OF It's peo'
ME NAV at times have been aroused. LII
the year 1S4S, to be sure the nation
intervention for O time seemed lmhi
nent; vet in the end, the Adoption VI
resolutions of sympathetic ENCOURAGE
II al
European revolutionlsts
but during the recent war petweel
China and Japan America for the mrs
time addressed words of earnest warnlns
to the European powers. When kussi'
frustrated Japan's enjoyment OF th'
usufruct of its victory by securing 'n'
oonnivance of Germany and Francs
With its interference, Washington issue'
a PROCLAMATION which, without clrcuih
locution, entered most signiiicai {,
protest. in which it affirmed that 60 al
European powers conjointly-even Eng
land included-a readjustment OF III
balance of power in eastern ASA was
less consequence than to hersen.
"And now the United States I'd ~,
orosSed the Rubicon Of neutrality l.
he sure, the casus belli was an Amer
can one but it is European power VI
ON which they are experimenting VIZ
their new departure. Nor Will this NE
attempt remain the last Inc pes 1,a;n
having been made in the West inai NJ;
the continuation of this new policy W.
most likely take place in eastern =. ASH =
In America, as in England ana IN -
nan. silent forces have been for q yea %
a. work in behalf of a new 'dreiouno
and when it shall have become AN a.
oomplished fact the deatnk .lnditio mn
have been sounded over the trau.',o a,'
international politics OF the grea a;,i po,
ers, of continental Europe. "-Miiwa'