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Show dream, he had better give it up. In the other'war Germany had the sympathy of the world. In this war France would have it. Moreover, it would be a sin against civilization for these powers to go to war when Russia is crippled and when that Brown and Yellow Oriental .power is taking on gigantic proportions. v ! v'. -' . . ', i It is about time, for a stern protest to be served upon Germany by the nations against her precipitating precipitat-ing a war on a petty technicality about the government govern-ment of some barbarous tribes. ID0ES GERMANY WANT WAR? j It is well known that when Emperor William I. 'nscended his throne of Prussia, the one'settled determination deter-mination in his mind was to execute vengeance on .France for the humiliation and loss that Napoleon had inflicted upon Prussia and her beautiful Queen, Louisa, in 1811. The fates seemed to favor the Emperor, Em-peror, as they gave him Bismarck for his chief adviser. ad-viser. Von Moltke, who had been away in Turkey training the Turkish army, was recalled and went to work to organize the Prussian army. When in good form and the army was ready for . work, a pretext was fixed to make war upon . Bchleswig-IIol8tein. These provinces were taken jfiom Denmark. Then as Austria and France had Ibeen in close relations for a long time, before beginning begin-ning the assault upon France, it was necessary to jquiet Austria, so a difficulty was precipitated with i Austria and at Sadowa the arm of Austria was broken in a single battle. i ' It took all the. persuasion of both Bismarck and I.Von Moltke to keep the Emperor quiet until Bis-Imarck Bis-Imarck could fix up a pretext through which France .would declare war upon Prussia. Then followed the Franco-Prussian war and the temporary over- throw of the power of France. In this Algeziras business the present Kaiser, as it looks to one across the sea, is determined to have 'a difficulty with France, and it causes one to wonder if there is some'thing in his mind akin to what his .grandfather and Bismarck had when they made war mpon Austria, that is, to inflict such a blow upon Prance that when it comes time for the Emperor to take in Austria, France will be in no condition to come to Austria's aid. . If that is his programme, he is a bold man, sure enough, because another war , ' with France might tax the utmost resources of Germany. Ger-many. ,. t. When the war came on, France was drunk with glory; she had grown to believe she was Invincible, her army had grown lax in discipline, her army supplies sup-plies were of the worst kind, so that when set in ;array against the army of Von Moltke it was discovered discov-ered that her ammunition was practically worthless, i , Since 1872, it is Germany that has been drunk with her triumphs. We do not think that the army (has been permitted to deteriorate, but the fighting men of that old army have all passed away. France ,is now a republic. She is in fine form for a diffl- culty, if a difficulty must come, and her soldiers i would not be interfered with by an Emperor who imagined that he was a great General. ' , It is a wonderfully dangerous experiment for ' Germany to try, because Just now, Germany would not only have to fight France, but the chances are she would have to fight Great Britain, and if she fought Great Britain and France she would have . Japan to handle also, because Great Britain and I Japan are in alliance. - - v' j wIf tie .German Emperor has been nursing that v '.' . . i ' ' |