Show 0 THE WAR SPIRIT THIC tact fact that the chief war correspondent of toe afie chief daily newspaper newspaper of paris figaro his has been ordered home hom 0 from his new york visit for duty is enough of itself to cast a very dark shadow upon the disc of europe but it is only a small matter compared with innumerable others and all pointing in the one direction of a gigantic war embracing in its operations all the great continental states perhaps england as well the cause caude of all these warlike preparations and notes of alain are various but none of them one would think after a cursory review sufficient to justify so enormous and deadly a conflict as is imminent there is the old grudge of france toward germany which the former woid gladly wipe out if the other would give it 11 a pretext or a chanc but the th jand and of 0 f bismarck ire is marc kear cant it just now even with all its bustle and worry oyer over mill military tary preparations think of a solitary reason wh she should knock a chip from frances shoulder as she certainly his has nothing to settle with that nation havin having left all the grievances growing out of of their conflict of sixteen years ago on the other side but still at she bear e is boing poing kolda to arm herself at all points her rime prime minister aad chief captain capia backed by the emperor him bims 6 elf elfi keep on talking warp war talking it louder and becoming more rampant every dayland we all know from history just what this sort bort of thing things long continued leads to the maty it quality in the organism 4 owes too ef cent to be bonger ong ar contained within its immediate imme liate environment and it runt runs over carrying everything movable along with it in the absence of france making some kind of hostile demonstration on the frontier trout ier such as quietly taking possession ol of and un furling the tricolor upon the parapets olmeta of metz and strasburg tr asburg fortresses or lancing a corporals guard ut of armed men on the eastern bank of the raire rhine or a formal declara declaration tiola of war germany has no apparent goow for discontent but she is actuated by this the tears fears engendered in the past burough a knowledge ot of tho the french character As to overt proceedings ceedie ce s or language Jan Jau guage even there is no issue between thebe two great reat nations bulgaria is the only viziole bone of contention but it the war should be because of that puny principality germany would only be indirectly interested te and fiance riotat not at all eliminating them from the theatre of tho tap impending pending iru conflict there would be lett jett the conspicuous figures of austria and russia the maintenance of a present autonomy in and its owa eventual protectorate if not dominion over bulgaria la is of t great moment to the former power because for one tiding it is contiguous and added to servia which under another name and with semi independence is really a part of austria would form a ti tra raight ight and unimpeded lah high way to the black sea toe commercial supremacy thus established would be more than the muscovite who has been coveting the same territory tor for many years yearb can bear thus any further movement of austeill Au austria would provoke an outbreak with its northeastern neighbor and vice versa bu the quo has nut not been violated of late nor in the absence ate danger and therefore pressing pleasing haste is it likely to be bulgaria stands where it did between the disputants controlled by neither aud by both so there seems no present material out of which to construct a conflagration ft fla aaion in that quarter and yet al it cue e war dogs were once unleashed in any part pare of either 14 these powers there would in less time than we the sun son takes to incomplete a diurnal rotation be long lines of bristling bayonets a huge array of dusky throated cannou cannon and a leg legion joia of mounted men on the frontier of each and everyone every one thus snowing how while disclaiming preparation or exploiting to the world any necessity tor for an outbreak each lit armed to the teeth and eaker eager for the fray the war spirit was never more rife no matter all if f oil be now and then poured J upon tue surface of the troubled waters all that is pacific in france Krance or germany is merely on the surface del delay ay I 1 is 1 only aggregating the the volume of waters accumulating against again the dyke so that when the nood flood does break through its if force and fury wil will be the more ungovernable the reason so much caution is shown in ail movements is bec because autie each desires 81 res to have the moral support of tha tb world by the responsibility for begin ning the conflict being upon the other hence tho the necessity I 1 for r avoiding avoid ingall all appearance ot of belligerency bismarck Bis marok and yon von bottke a are e bolder an and of more outspoken 2411 t than the french statesmen they make no denials while disclaiming the intention of either initiating or provoking hos th the e french deny that the ger mans live have any cause for uneasiness their mashny kasnir of troops on the frontier i lei is pimply a A dress ress parade on a grand scale and the cutting down ol of timber for defensive structures structure tur oa is only to give the soldiers exercise under such i a aint one or the other will eventually light athe the match that will fire th the mine emine |