The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-29

which recall that it was the presence
throughout so many years of il French
garrison in the Eternal City that pre-.
vented the incorporation of Rome into
the kingdom of united Italy as its
capital until the Franco German
war of 1870 necessitated the with
drawal of the Gallo army of occupa.
ton. The latter had been stationed
there in order to assist Pope Plus IN
to recover the mastery over the people
of Rome. who had revolted against his
temporal rule.
Germany into one great empire was
Of Prussia in marching her troops
other smaller states for the purpose
of restoring order and of reducing to
submission the people who in lS4S49
had broken out into instruction
against their respective rulers: and
the prejudice against Prussia. espe-
cially in SaXony and Baden. still re-
mains very strong and even now often
handicaps the policy of the kaiser and
impairs in a certain degree the COM
plete homogeneity of the empire.
britain and Franco Tied Up.
Neither Great Britain nor France
won for themselves any gratitude
from the governments of Spain or
Portugal for the military and naval
assistance accorded to them in the
suppression of the revolutionary
movements of Don Carlos and of Dom
Miguel. England, in particular. de-
rived no benefits, but many disad-
vantages from her impolitic interior
ence. and Queen Isabella. who may
be said to have owed her throne to
Great Britain. remained until her de-
position the foe OF everything Eng
lish.
Moreover. one may travel in every
direction through densely populated
Belgium without finding one spark of
thankfulness to either England or
France for the part which they played
when they interviewed in 1882 in Bel
GUM to maintain King Leopold on
his new throne and to secure the in
dependence and freedom of the Bel
gian people
In 1882 England sent an army under
Field Marshal Lord Wellesley to
Egypt and bombarded Alexandria
with her fleet in order to re-establish
the rule of khedive Tewfik. who had
been deprived of his scepter by the
instruction of Arab Pasha. English
intervention has had the effect not
merely of restoring order. but like
wise of inaugurating degree OF pros
perity in the land OF the Nile unknown
since the days of the Pharaohs.
Yet at the present moment the
rish or ha
quest of Lord Cromer, is dispatching
reinforcements to Egypt, not alone for
the purpose of keeping in check the
native luminosity toward the English,
but also to provide the British resi-
dents there with much-needed pro-
lection against the manifestations OF
native hatred. England interviewed in
the name of humanity on behalf of the
cruelty prosecuted fellaheen. and of
the khedivists. but reaped nothing but
ingratitude from the one as we'll as
from the other.
Moral support Only.
From this it will be seen that any
interference by the kaiser in the af-
fairs of Russia would have the result
of increasing his very considerable
difficulties in the administration and
Germanization of Posen. besides in
tensifying the aversion with which the
Muscovite regards the Teuton. and
which finds eloquent expression in the
fact that the word used in Russian to
designate German is "Nemetz.'
which likewise stands for dumb
fool"
AS for Austria, the loyalty of her
| Polish province of Gallicia to the
crown is a source of strength and OF
security. But that loyalty would be
speedily converted into revolt were
Francis Joseph to interfere in Russia
! or to help the car to restore order by
means of the sword in Russia Polond
and if Austrian guns were to be lev
| eled at the Poles on yonder side OF
the frontier, parliamentary govern
ment at Vienna would be rendered
impossible thereby. For the Polish
party in the reichsrath is about one
of the only political factions upon
which the government can rely for
support, and were it to turn against
the crown, legislation would become
not merely more difficult than it has
been until now, but would reach a
standstill.
AS | have pointed out above. the
emperors of Germany an dof Austria
are keenly interested in the restor-
alton of order in Russia. and have
much at stake in the suppression of
the revolution now In progress there.
But they would have still more to
risk from any armed Intervention in
behalf of the car and under the cir
cumstances the support which they
accord to him is certain to be moral
rather than material.