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Show VON MOLTKEON THE SITUATION. SITUA-TION. New York, 9. The latest received foreign papers contain tie recent remarkable re-markable speech of Field Marshal Moltke. It was a circular note addressed ad-dressed to foreign powers rather than a statement for domestic purposes. Moltke says: The recent question brought before the House is whether henceforth Germany shall Dear the heavy cot necessarily incurred by keeping 410,000 men on a permanent peace looting. That question must be considered in the light of home and foreign relations. The present generation could not hope to escape the onerous duties connected with the maintenance of large armaments. It was but too probable that Germany would be obliged to protect for fifty years to come, what she had gained in five months. Germany, by the last war. has wnn thfi rrnrifel. but. certainly not the lova of her neighbors. neigh-bors. In whatever direction members mem-bers turn their eves, they would find nations haunted with the idea that Germany was likely to become a disagreeable disa-greeable neighbor before long. There was a strong French party in Belgium, notwithstanding that Germany had repeatedly saved the independence of that kingdom. Holland hart begun to repair the works by which the country had been inundated, because the inhabitants were unaccountably afraid of German attack. There was not a man in Gcrmnny who advocated the annexation of Holland, yet it was but too well known with whom the Dutch sympathized in the war ot 1870. Even England nod recently witnessed the publication of pamphlets pamph-lets contemplating the chances, not of the French, but of the Germans landing in that country. Denmark increases her coasting vessels, deeming deem-ing it necessary to prepare against a German descent; nay, German was even charged with the intention of invading the Baltic provinces of Ktis-sia, Ktis-sia, and eoqueting with the German military organization, and by extending extend-ing the duty of her military service over twenty years, and giving the law a retrogressive force already possesstd an active army of 1,200,0:10 men and a territorial force of one million. France had now 152 regiments of infantry instead of 11H as before the warr 323 batteries instead of 159 as formerly. France, who began the war of 1870, with eight corps d'annc3, had now nineteen, and, whilo Germany Ger-many has hitherto spent less than j 100,000,000 thalers on her troops.does not hesitate to appropriate 171,000,- OOUforahkc purpose. The French1 Legislative Assembly in other days' actually forced an extra sum of 10'j,-000,000 10'j,-000,000 thalers on their government to enable them to drill in the second portion of this year. French towns vied with each other in building barracks, bar-racks, setting apart drill grounds, etc. To be sure a great majority of the intelligent in-telligent Frenchmen bore their defeat with more dignity than would appear to be tho case from the orations of popular s oakers; yet, if the French government are convinced of the necessity ne-cessity of procuring peace for some time to come, this, above all, was owing to the fact, that a judicious General Gen-eral was at the head of the nation. Still Germany remembered too well the sad experience of some years ago, when the French government was carried away by extreme parties and hurried into imprudevit war. J-JowaB sorry to say that however many people peo-ple in France might be opposed to the repetition of bucIi a roiir.se, no one revenge which penetrated across the Vosges could abandon the idea that what had happened once might happen hap-pen son again. He argued that nil experience showed the com privative worthlessness of the militia, although it was tnio the Americans had ultimately ultim-ately conquered with troops mobilized from the militia forces; but the French Mobihcrs had been of but little use. Another argument against the militia was the danger of arming the people promiscuously when Socialism Soc-ialism was so rampant. He concludes with a strong appeal for an army strong enough to command peace. |