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Show Some pessimistic ass cables the information infor-mation from Berlin that a restoration of Poland, with tbe emperor of Austria as king, is being considered at Vienna and favored by the emperor of Germany. Ger-many. A scheme of that kind would involve not only a European war, but several wars. Germany would not surrender sur-render Posen without getting a fair compensation for it. Russia would not give up her big slice of Poland without fighting for it to death, France necessarily necessa-rily sidipg her as a means of self preservation. pres-ervation. Italy as a member of the triple alliance, would demand Nice and Savoy for her share in the struggle, The dominant Germans in Austria already al-ready threatened by Slavic accessions to the east would robel against further annexation of Slavic territory unless the programme provided for an exchange ex-change of Poland for the German parts of Austria, the latter to-become part of tbe fatherland, which would create a distinct Slavic empire In opposition to Russia, with a Hapsburg monarch at the head. Then Hungary, surrounded on all sides by a hostile race, would want to assert her independence, which she knows well how to do. And then the immutable Turk would be threatened, threat-ened, not from St. Petersburg as he now is, but from the capital of tbe new Slavic empire which would have to be created, since Vienna would be1 ceded to Germany. And as to tbe turbulent Czechs, what would bocome of them? Indeed the complications extend even farther, involving a complete change of the map of Europe and some of the colonies. Nothing short of an upheaval akin to that caused by the first Napoleon Napo-leon can bring about the restoration of Poland, and by the time that comes to pass the kingdom will, refuse to be restored, re-stored, because tho schoolmaster in Germany is fast Germanizing, and the police in Russia is fast Russifying the Polish possession of each,' and in another generation nothing will remniu of the land of Kosciusko except Galicia, which Already belongs to Austria, and a dying sentiment. ' , , , |