Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-05

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Sentiment One Hxplsnstaon-P1s4
to E1ect q Loan Anothes@Develso-
mont of Russts's ReSo1eees mad
Capital Needed.
"The French people through all the
merely ministerial changes OF the nass
thirty years have maintained their n
fdence in the trained and intellisent
patriotism OF the d%iplomatists and pF-
manent officials who have defended
French interests In Europe and else
where with a regular consistency or
lines dictated by the general situation
since 1871"
With statements like this EngiiSk
writer's who have 70 far discussed the
meeting at Compiegne between Ozar
Nicholas II. and President Loubet
have been content to dismiss the ques-
ton Of the Franco-Russian alliance.
What discussion there has been has
turned upon the motives for the visit
Outside of France there is an absolute
agreement that a Russian loan Is
forthcoming, but in the republic itself
COuJCCluIc udS AOOh0 hlAhy IL ~
plantations. NJ. de Blowitz In dealing
with the omission of a visit to Paris
from the programme writes:
Il am convinced that from the very
first Nicholas IL. meant by his visit to
the navy and army to efface the almost
painful impression which the French
nation experienced when the presence
of the Russian ambassador at the
lei of Alsace-Lorraine became
known. This is why Nicholas ii. wish
ed to 60 from the Dunkerque naval
review to the military and
the review. of Betheny, SO that his stay
in France should be the exact counter
part of the military incident in Alsace-
Lorraine last year. Further, 1t should
not be forgotten that the fact that the
czarina is in mourning for Queen Vic
toria and the Empress Frederick must
have induced him to hold aloof from
the inevitably brilliant and stirring ac-
compartments of a Paris fete, and.
finally. that the horrible murder OF
President Mckinley and his funeral
conceded so exactly with the presence
Of the Russian imperial pair in France
that the decision of Nicholas II. to
keep away from Partisan exuberance
cannot but be considered exceedingly
tactful and in very good taste"
Nowhere is there any question Of the
genuineness of the alliance or any at
tempt at minimizing the significance OF
the present meeting. The English re-
view quoted above-The Speaker-goes
SO. far as to set forth the solid reasons
for expecting that such a union should
endure. 1t says:
Like all modern alliances, the dual
alliance has a purely political charac-
ter and is based upon reasons of in
~terest; it is. therefore, beside the mark
to wonder at the friendship between
two states which are at opposite poles
in their constitution and ideals. 1t La
probable, for that matter, that an old
misapprehension Of the relations be-
tween the car and his people and the
nature of a sovereignty which 10
rather a popular theocracy than q
depotism proper makes the contras3
seem even more violent than 1t is IN
fact. In any case, it Is on the ground
of political utility that all that Is most
republican in France (for the socialist
domestic politics., like all that is nNst
autocratic in Russia, has long ago ae-
cepted the alliance.
ut Is something when no positive
antipathy proceeding from the memory
of recent injuries (as is to some extent
the case with countries forming the
triple alliance) divides the peoples
whose masters commit them to a
dynastic amity. The quarrels between
France and Russia in the past have
only been dynastic; their interests In
most parts of the world are Identical.
and. perhaps, the only serious possibii-
ity of their ever conflicting concerns
the protectorates which they exercise
in Syria and other parts of the Ottp-
mar empire over the Latin and Ortho-
doX Christians respectively. But there
are also certain moral bonds between
the two. Much as the national charac-
tiers differ, it must not be forgotten
that either is essentially a people OF
peasants, and that they have il COM
mon a genius for sympathetic assim-
ilation which no other European race
has shown. Moreover, from the time
when the Empress Catherine CORE
sponded with the encyclopedias the
educated classes Of Russia have been
the most faithful vassals of the French
intellectual empire"