| Show RUSSIA AND GERMANY hand band has been plainly visible blean in the manipulation of internal european affairs irs ra long time and ana for or a much longer time she has had bad her eyes turned with a hungry gaze toward the to obtain an unobstructed a ted path to and ja a secure footing on the shore washed anthe on the north by either the black sea marmora or the mediterranean and thus furnish the colossal empire with an uninterrupted r u W d outlet and inlet has b been apu epu theN dream of the muscovite for 1 generations and he is so much nearer the realization of his bis hopes now than at any previous eus time that it if the past correctly prefigures pre figures the future russian stations at several points point on the shores named and still aurther absorptions to follow can only be prevented by the interposition of providence some years ago when a large number of christians were massacred by a lot of turkish fanatics in bulgaria russia conceived the plan of proclaiming itself a semi protectorate over the Carit iau population there and for the ostensible bible purpose of puni chiai the tui ka aim securing a aguar guarantee fur for we uie aut safety anere utter atter it ila ILL aimiee MIeS which were already posted to cross toe tae frontier ulda luan presenting to the world the spectacle of a semi barbarous horde suppressing semi in tile the alleged interest ui ua a cause which both had oppressed and neither ever belore before thought of defending it was simply an opportunity an excuse by taking advantage ol 01 which the czars azars outposts were practically advanced a long way southward the bloody vindictive and expensive war of conquest and the crushing terms to the vanquished as the cue conditions ot of peace are already well known to the general reader and this was a great point in an uncompleted colo colossal boal pro gramme gained recently dussias Rus sias assumption of authority and aggressive attitude in Ro and bulgaria have so excited the attention of the other rowers that kings on kneir thrones and legislators in their chambers are watching their gigantic with ill III concealed anxiety recognizing the startling fact fket that russia is in much uch more inure easily kept kepi out tuan put out ol of any place in which she bite gains a looting footing the abd ab mcdon diction and auten detention ol of a ruler until such a system should be adopted and such selected as were suitable to the czar way was one of the most audacious coups ever attempted by any nation mid tue away which is now being neld field over taw principalities just north north of the bat bal bans by an alien toe is the foremar more marvelous when it provokes nothing but inrid protests from other sour source coto russia and germany combined could convert the whole of europe into a grand chess a which to make moves as they chose hence it is not good policy for either to permit the other to acquire so much as to preponderate in ill power and advantages they are re both traditional territory grabbers g lud and both are reaching out to the south couth the former commenced with schleswig holstein on the north followed by the unification of an all the teutonic states and closing so far with the wrenching of alsace lorraine from france and alk tas them back to the german fold russia needs nothing further north but wants everything south this is the only respect in which the two peoples run parallel lel in germany education is the in russia it is the ex exception ce the religion of one is of the i intellectual t ellee type of the other it is sein i one is a Unit knitted ted the otier er an absolute monarchy a despotism despotis iv I 1 intact I 1 fact together they would ue oe I 1 invincible u as against the world and neither meither seems unwilling inz for such an alliance it if the details can be agreed upon |
