| Show THE WAR PROSPECTS the approach of spring leach year la if prolific of promises of a great war iya in europe this season is no exception to the rule and it would not occasion occa any surprise to see two or more of the great powers powers plunged into fierce wind and deadly conflict upon a very small provocation the dispatches state that the scramble ramble eo for gold now going on among the nations on the other side of the atlantic I 1 is a regarded there as one of the grandest signs signe of the times and to is cause of widespread feeling in political circles that european peace is about t be broken the london ha this significant utterance ou the situation not only do military preparations on the continent threaten us with the most terrible war the world has ever seen with the greatest waste of life and wealth and with a complete breakup break up of the 0 political systems of the continent but they actually put a prohibition upon new enterprise elsewhere nobody can be sure for a week together of what may happen or how bow the money markets ot of the world may be thrown into confusion and of how disastrous therefore every undertaking may be made and the injurious effect will continue even if war itself is still postponed there is naturally very much uneasiness all over the continent and in every war office throughout the world yet there is hope at the same time that the magnitude of the risk will deter every one from beginning the struggle |
