Show FRANCE ON HER FEET the rh policy no conf longer er pos po giblo with the powerful U public some years af ago 0 o in the time of the old emperor bismarck is enid sn id to have held that it was tho the duty of germany to herself completely equipped a she was with firm alliances while tile pi rench french were not fully armed and had no allies to find a pretext for a quarrel and crush cruit france taking 0 care to ii inflict disabilities that would prevent her tak taic ing rank again with tile foremost nations writes murat halstead in the cosmopolitan mo politan his idea was that tile the french were implacable and each pen cration of them had bad to have a war with germany ile ho wanted therefore to hasten the inevitable it is too late to adopt this policy now for france is on her feet restored to the front rank ready with a greater army than she ever put in the field and assured of the friendship f ship of russia the german emperor is is called to observe the growth of socialism which springs up as a lor antidote for the militarism that lias has been almost omnipotent in germany this socialism social ibm does not seem to be morbid it is a natural form of protest against a governing govern mg aristocracy and a devouring army now the leaders of the social movement are so strong they can afford moderation and their speeches are not the shrieks of assassins sin but show the calm consideration of most weighty and urgent affairs it seems to the socialists that there ought to be como bomo way found of settling the alsace and lorraine question without war which however it might result would mean the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of poor men and one speaker was so bold as to say a few weeks ago that in twenty years the german people would have no need for royalties and imperialists this may be incendiary from the point of view of the occupants of thrones but it is not irrational it has been belsby held by many representatives of imperialism that blood letting was tho the remedy for social disorder the success of the russian loan in F france rance and the failure to place any of it in Ger germany maily has drawn the french and Ru russians closer together happily this may make for peace for their united strength is so great germany will hardly care to challenge the hostility of so portentous a combination in this indeed is the only chance for the preservation of the armed truce that prevails |