Evening star., 1899-03-02
Present Political Situation in France
and Germany.
DISCUSSING THE FATE OF ANDREE
DisestabIishment May Be a Thing
of the Near Future.
1ONDON'S NEW HIGHWAY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON, February IA, 1899.
France again claims the chief attention
on account of the extraordinary facility
with which her rulers assist in forcing her
to the brink of a crisis. There is little rea-
son to suppose that NJ. Dupuy will not re-
peat In the senate the sinister victory he
has won in the chamber. The senate can
have no respect for the monstrous bill
which is aimed at the character and credit
of one of the three branches of the supreme
court. But by the vote of the chamber NJ.
Dupuy has strengthened his plea that the
country will not accept the Judgment of
President Loew and his colleagues in the
Dreyfus case. OF course. it is the obvious
duty of the senate to reject this plea on
the ground that 1t is no part of their duty
10 assail the judiciary of France in defer
ence to popular clamor. If by dint of reck-
less lying NJ. de Beaurepaire and the Libre
Parole have persuaded the nation that the
criminal chamber of the court is unworthy
of its trust. then the senate ought to have
the honesty and the true public spirit not to
join In this conspiracy. They might urge
that IL is ridiculous, to say the least to
throw this odium on the criminal chamber
when the bill actually proposes to allow the
vituperated judges to take part in an in
curry by the full court If President Loew
has done anything that disqUalifies him for
the exercise of his functions why permit
him to exercise them in conjunction with
the rest of the judges? But the govern
ment, the deputies and the senate know
perfectly well t.iat this man is blameless.
Trouble in Store.
That the French republic has taken
course that will lay up trouble for her in
the future, if not precipitate chaos is a
fact which requires no deep knowledge of
politics to realize. Since the Dreyfus at
fdr began a huge blast of mistrust has
blown over France; nistrust in the army
mlstrust in the government. in the presi-
cent and last but not least, in the integrity
or the highest tribunal of the land. Base
accusations against all those who formerly
commanded the highest respect have been
made and, what Is worse still listened to:
oncers have accused their chiefs generals
denounced their interiors. judges have in
formed against judges. and the latter have
had 10 defend themselves against charges
made against them by meniaIs eInpIoyed in
the law courts. Such a state of affairs can
only end III crisis of some sort
Most OF the English papers insist day
after Gay that the republic is lost. that she
mas signed her death warrant. and that
revolution Is in the air. There are sturdy
FORCES at work in France outside Paris
ana thouEh no one can help seeing that the
republic IS preparing pitfalls for herself
Yet every lover Of repuDI4can France may
hope that the better part will yet win. and
tHstI no pretender to q forgotten throne will
triumph over her in her troubles.
NuF sNei1afDns with GcrmaHy.
After Herr Won Bulow's frank speech in
the German reichstag. in which he received
the support Of Prince Herbert Bismarck. l
suppose Americans ought to feel better dis
posed toward Germany than ever before
and forget the differences that are believed
10 exist between the two countries II is
easy TO understand Why there has been
certain display Of iH-feeling toward the
CLlted States in the German press and To-
ward GERMANY in
papers The German agrarians have long
been annoyed at the increase in imports of
American grain and meat. and have caused
numerous restrictions TO he placed uuon
tEe trade Further diffcrt noes have arisen
IN connection with the imposition Of colIn-
terFalling duties upon German bountv-fed
sugar imported into the United States
Ihen the report that the German naval
commander at Manila had behaved in A
suspicious manner aggravated the iII-U,iU
1hese with Samoan difficulties have rem
dered affairs unpleasant. Herr Won Buiow
mas denied that there is any truth i'm re-
ports Of Germany's Interference in the
Pnllipplnes. or that she has any other feel
ing but that of friendship toward rho
United States. Undoubtedly this statement
VIII clear the way to a better understand
Hs' pfoy!ced the Germans themselves act
up 10 their protestat!ons. Unfortunately
We nave heard fair sentiments before. from
Ihe same quarter, which have rot aIUays
been realized in practice Perhaps how
ever, TINS time Germany has found out that
SIE has bttn backing the bHrsa
Havlng learned this. it is natural that she
shouId want to set herself right If the
present occasion should prove an onnortu
nifty of removing the German bias which
undoubtedly exists against America then
the speeches in the reichstag will hay-a baf.,,
happily made
The Winter in England.
The papers here report at great length
accounts of the blizzard you are having in
America. The Britisher who has so MANY
kinds of climate. takes a keen interest in
reading of the woes of others on the score
Of weather. He reads of snow piled MANY
1'et high in New York and Washington. of
street cars and railways blocked people
rtezing to death in their beds business at
a s-andstill. and thanks God that. while
England may have plenty of samules Of
weather she does not get them piled on her
all at once While We in England cannot
match the cold and snow in America y4t
We nave experienced the stormiest and wet
test winter for years. Storms have broken
round the entire coast with frightfuI fury
and numbers Of vessels have been y,recLed
a tidal wave swept up the Bristol channel
winch Is ike bottle with the neck corked
az brlStol. and carried away sea walls
PIERS, docks. roads and railway lines doing
thousands OF pounds of damage Shin can
talns report the Atlantic weather as the
worst III their experience. and many are
the tales Of Shipwreck and suffering AT sea
The counties of Pembroke Cardigan and
Carmarthen are flooded. and the beautiful
conway valley near the Gladstones- home
az Hl"arden, well known to Americans
who have visited Chester is a mss nf
water for miles No trains or other traffic
can pass through ii.
here IS the tale from north Wales this
morning, a small portion Of the two-c0IIInn
story every paper publishes Of the storm,
serious Floods.
During the past few days tidal waves
have inundated the North Wales coast and
Hooded the country side. The high tides
Nere accompanied by heavy southwesterlv
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