Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-03-19
PANIC ENDS
Frenchman's Words Quiet
Panic Mongers
LEAVE ENGLAND ALONE.
The Next European Trouble
is Likely to be in the
Balkans.

London, March 10.-The mouths of thu
| panic mongers have been stopped ant
| by Frenchman. 1t is curious com
| mentary upon Il certain side of the Brit
| ish character which has lately been much
in evidence. Several papers of fail
! standing have seriously been putting for
| ward the probability of war with France
| and their sensations have been gulpeJ
down eagerly by Il small section of the
| British public, though well informed peo-
| pie were only amused France, however,
was not the only nation which, it was as
| serted. meditated an immediate invasion
of England. Russia, Germany and Aus
tria, according to the fancy of the manu-
| fncturers of panics, had designs to take
| advantage of Great Britain's trouble in
| South Africa With the cries for home
| defense IN the ascendant Great Britain
might have Duplicated the scenes when
| the island awaited the prospective inva-
| sion of Napoleon.
DOwned the BOgy.
| Itnt NJ. Dclcasse. the French foreign
| minister, spoke, and the bogy of Euro
| poan hostility and interference vanished.
| The hand of the Frenchman restored
calm to Great Britain. Without the bias
of friendship he disclosed the common
sense with which France and the other
European powers We're governing their
relations toward Great Britain and bore
home what has frequently been set forth
in these dispatches-i. e.. that no power
had the slightest intention of going to
war with Great Britain at present and
THAT no power was anxious to intervene
in behalf of the Beers.
The pacific aspect which European
matters assume is far more likely to be
disturbed by trouble in the Balkans than
by the South African war or any ihing in
which Great Britain is chiefly concerned,
though even the Balkan difficulty is most
unlikely to result in any continental war.
This latest trouble consists in the APP
parent determination of Prince Ferdi-
nand to declare himself king of Bulgaria
and renounce Turkeys suzerainty. He
would scarcely contemplate this without
the backing of Russia, whence come
Prince Ferdinand's' generals, guns and
his national loan. AS The Spectator
points out, for the sultan to refuse abso-
luiely the request of Prince Ferdinand
supported by Russia and not negatived
by the triple alliance. would be Il very
serious event indeed, "and il may occur
sooner than We who are looking south
ward instead Of eastward, are ready to
suppose
However, there is no reason to suppose
il will not all blow over, as did the fric-
ton between Great Britain and Germa-
ny over the seizures of the latter's ships
in South African waters. To what eX-
tent that friction went was only known
last week. when a blue book giving the
correspondence of the governments CON
ccrncd was published The tart demands
of the German ambassador and. Lord
SHlShury's asloni>he,l comments at be-
ing thus addressed by nation whom
Mr.. Chamberlain but few weeks pre-
yious had lovingly included in the so
called new drribund' came as a reve-
lation. Had not the matter been COM
plctely settled, thanks to Lord Sails
huiY's giving way. and had not Great
Britain been so completely engrossed by
the progress of her arms in South Africa
it would have raised a storm of indigna-
ton against Germany 80 times grcatcr
than. did Emperor Williams celebrated
cable message to President Kruger after
the Jameson raid.
Gcrmnny's Queer Policy.
The correspondence itself shows no
evidences Of reconciliation. but it is
learned this has been effected and also
that rather curious circumstances at
tended the negotiations. Whenever the
German ambassador saw Lord Salisbury
'butter would not melt in his mouth"
aud his words were honeyed, vet when
I nj,
of foreign affairs. spoke publicly he was
anti-British. and when the dispatches
which would, in the nature of things, be
published were written by Me German
side they were formulated in the same
strain.
In comparison with the surprising i'm
portance attached to what is taken to be
the addition of the Orange Free State to
the British dominions events in Great
Britain last week were highly unntercst-
ing Parliament has not distinguished it.
self. The most interesting feature was
the debate arising over the "stop the
war" meetings and the accuse ton against
the government of palliating the suppress
sion of free speech by allowing such
meetings to be broken up. Though the
Liberal arguments sounded well enough,
there is scarcely Il corporals guard in
England at present who are willing to
stand up as being against the war enthu
siasm that has flowed in with the tide of
success.
Nossiloff, the we'll known Siberian. CON
tributes to the Novoe Vremya of st. Pc
erSblrg bitter complaint against the |
nronds American trade is making into |
Siberia. "Thesc things" he declares. 'arc
iot articles of luxury. but just what are
most urgently needed by the local popu-
ltlon. Coming through Vladivostok,
hey are put on the market in huge ouan-
tiles and are sold in such a manner that
We are led to conclude that the United
states has set out upon an industrial and
commercial conquest of Siberia. AS hith-
rto Siberia has been lacking in mon of
apital, in mills and in iron. works. the
ntcrprising Americans will have every
hing ready to their hands and in order
I no distant date TO become the real
masters of the situation and p,rvcvors
T the goods needed by Siberia. The mer.
hants and traders speak of petitoninr
or prohibition to be placed on Ameri-
an imports, but while the discussion con.
'nncs the Americans will secure tho
1arket, and it is also quite possible thnt
ven China, where Russia is CONSTRUCTING
railroad, will fall into the hands of tha