| Show ARMED PEACE ABROAD france la in in some respects the most wonderful nation on the globe her finan clors easily lead those of any other nation her monetary system being infinitely superior to all others and her method of computation the only I 1 perfect erfert one known with but limited internal resources she to is not only self sustaining aing lising but always has something to dispose of to her neighbors neigh bore A french loan not only never lags upon the market but is virtually taken before issued in the higher arts and more comprehensive sciences science in the various shades of high class clan literature in inventive skill kill and mechanical construction st france walks abreast of any country ur own not excepted but it is in its wonderfully recuperative power that it takes the front rank among the nations of the globe after paying the indemnity which germany designed should crush the present generation of frenchmen to the earth and keep them there and which payment was wa made in exact accordance with its ita terms each installment being ready as it became due the had bad more teady ready money on band dollar for dollar than the while the ooin coin was wae changing hands bands from ruler to ruler one way it was coming back from people to people the other way this took but a few years and then began practical preparations on n the most comprehensive scale boale ever designed deigned for a military system whose cost has bad been almost inconceivable this embraced not only the rehabilitation of and navy but the adoption of a far reaching system of frontier defenses on a plan entirely new to military science mind and this thi la Is supposed to be att nearly perfect as an it te ji possible for aoh such work to be france has ba spout spent her army alone within the time named the ool oBeal sum of 01 eighteen hundred million dollar sl the amount ablord abao by the navy is i not given but mutt mail be nearly as muth much more and the cost of the outposts and 8 ad unnamed itom id connection with the entire selVe establishment would doubtless require many joany figures to represent it this tb isa to farmed armed peace 1 11 the penalty germany hao impaled p lead alturet the whole of eu europe rope ever the declaration of peace between feudal enemies francs france haw haft okae oe way and another been preparing bersell as if for others other and that never again will she he be found in a Bt str ruele urgle in uch such a hateful haae ful state of preparation or lack of it a av when louie B mapoleon declared war in 1870 it IS i not the caie to 90 ay that she he IS now better equipped for war than at any time during the oes tury so 80 also alio i in Ger gerwazy wavy and austria and italy so eo also alio would be russia rubia but forthe famine which has not yet lot let go its lt hold upon the it all leads leade us to conclude that the dorr dogs ot of war have bare not beon been unleashed on several reveral occasions because of the retarding effect which cb a oon con of the awful deal that would benm faai had upon those who sit in authority |
