| Show precarious TIMES IN EUROPE I 1 if the war cloud which seems to overcast the face of europe just juat now ia 18 not genuine it at leat least looks like it and that la is more thau than can be said of the ordinary threaten ings from that quarter spain and possibly poe sibly italy are in a position not so go very far re moved from tuat suat of france J abt pre to that most moat terrible of revola tione bione both of the nations nation named are reported banar bankrupt up t with enormous now due in addition to this the people to whom the sovereigns would necessarily look for succor are destitute many of them in a state of slow starvation prance france had just such a people for a dependence when it was in a similar strait f r ready cash rho fhe king applied the usual remedy of heavier taxes they responded with the torch and finally the guillotine there is little probability that italy or spain will repeat this dangerous experiment but as affairs are progressing they will not have so au very much time to consider what Is best to lu do it if their thrones were on pedestals of their conditions would be no more precarious in spain particularly there la is a fiendish desper deeper aaion appearing in the impoverished regions which was not witnessed in france until the kings utter helplessness was forced into public notice by big own rap rashness buess when the storm rose so ao fast and furious that almost between two days a nation of peasants was transformed to a military camp the rho revolution that is threatening spain will not be likely to come in ID such a fashion as this ladt lodter eu these mutter ings of war which we hear may nut not be what we suspect butas before averred they genuine in the men time while italy and spain are literally falling failing to pieces under the impotence of royalty austria la is little better off and germany is much too near the danger point of social socialism lont to be safe the only reasonable cause that can be given why william is not I 1 like the king of italy looking about for a safe shift in the way of a dictator or something of that kind bind is that his people area are a little better eu educated and come of a race that from the beginning have bad too much self to take naturally to gun gunpowder lowder revolution in the manufacturing districts of england bugland entire communities are reported to be dying of hunger and the masek of that thai empire have oot not wasted soy any love upon royalty liike their teu toya kindred under the scepter ot of Williamt William the be only safety valve for their discontent and general disgust tor for the humbugs humburgs of hereditary sovereignty Is ie their dominant domi self respect but the mere sentimentalities senti mentalities of patriotism cannot survive long under the ravages of hunger france seems to be the he only govern ment mentin in europe of the first class which has nothing to tear fear arm a continental war it to is only the toppling thrones which have cause to te ke uneasy pramod cravea is fortunate enough to have n throne or artificial dignity to pr hect aud the cry of war within or without her borders would only serve to inspire a stronger patrio patriotism tim throughout the nai giai ion anu ana knit more cloi oloe cloie e y the be private interests of the people to tapir government prom from this thise showing howing it lei is easy to perceive what whai a tremendous rattling 0 01 t the dry bones of royalty might follow upon a very slight convulsion in any quarter ot of europe but we vire bear ot of many wars war of late ite which turn out to be mer ly a skirmish of print printers erPs ink these wild rumors of revola ion which come along almost dally daily way may yet prove to be lor for a time at least a battle baille of reporters |
