Show RUSSIAN territorial aggrandizement the death of the german emperor the imperial technical society of st petersburg has fixed upon the route of the proposed transcontinental railway system of russia to the pacific this line with the road will open the whole of inner asia to russian trade it will be kilometers mete miles in length and its cost will be roubles coubles this line may Rassi anize all asia that is not british so that its commercial and military importance cannot be overestimated china persia and Afghani afghanistan are large wards in ia geography and yet they are included in toe the political dictionary of the czar it seems that the koff craze which has afflicted the russian government since 1862 was wai not to be perpetual and the czars azars counselors were e finally anally to recognize the truth that asla asia and not europe was the proper field of russian europe ex expansion ancion in tais connection considerations of geography P by are important european russia including pola poland nd and finland has an area of square miles while the area of siberia exceeds square miles and the newly conquered territories cover more than 1000 square miles alexander III is thus destined to doable the area of bis big empire outside of siberia and to carry slav aggression farther than any of his bis predecessors A boundless field for emigration is being opened in the new conquests A prolific race possesses itself of great rest opportunities while germany is courting court iBS poverty keeping under arms to guard against possible attack and driving her men to the united states where they can german and learn english russia as 9 creating neWt new Wealth and military power the iron chancellor is after all aly only bismarck anh and not julius caesar Cf fisar a diplomat and not a prophet the younger pitt was determined ter mined that napoleon should not destroy the enemies of england and englishmen rejoiced at the failure of the russian campaign of 1812 bismarck gratuitously in flames the hatred of france whose help germany may some day need to save herself from a successful russian invasion when people become civilized and like der derbany GF ermany many armed to the he teeth they are dangerous and especially so when the way ED ay easily double or treble in number the roman and persian empires exhausted themselves with four centuries of war only to make mak eboth both an easy conquest for the arabs similarly the Ri russian assian czars azars find the french alliance very convenient to keep germany quiet while she continues to build up a military military force which will overcome germany and france combined combi combined russia and great britain are the only modern nations which like the romans can assimilate conca conquered ered peoples and create new seats of power powe r in distant domains every year makes the czars azars hundred million subjects more civilized and civilization is military strength the salvation of germany is to attack her enemy at once but this is exactly what even prince bismarck is afraid todo to do the Th german eGerman army is a last resort which must be ready tor for use in case of an but is not to be used if such a catastrophe can be avoided Weare we are ready to fight but do not want to is the chancellors declaration to europe russia must be crushed now or her growth will make her invincible a germany fears to attack russia knowing that france must be reckoned with at the same time in uniting germany bismarck Bia marck has also kept the czar out of the turkish principalities but has neglected to prevent russian aggrandizement diz ement in Asta which was even more dangerous to europe than an advance to the there is no occasion at the present moment for alarm this is an era of arms and armies but not of war the navies of the world are full of iron which never light fight lebel rifles and modern artillery are things so disagreeable to play with that nations prefer to manufacture rather than use them one of these days we will perhaps have guns which will blow up a whole v h 0 1 e army at 0 once ace and so keep the p peace e c e f for or want 0 of f fighters possibly that 1 is the best kind of peace in view of the certainty that it cannot be disturbed how much the death of the emperor empe pe 1 which occurred this morning is 1 likely k I y to change the present situation in europe I 1 will consider in another article in his big demise one of th the e best of germans passes away frederick III HI was as great as good germany will deeply feel the heavy loss of their beloved I 1 fritz I 1 I 1 I 1 DR ISAACSON SALT LAKE CITY june |