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Show V : EUROPE OUT OF JOINT. If the-reader of current events becomes satiated with the daily recitals of graft in this country, Eu-. rope will furnish him a panorama of high jinks until his breakfast gets cold. Thc Swedes and thc Xorwcgians-uppear to be the only peoples who were expected to tear each other to pieces, and didn't Instead Xorway has been given its clearance papers, pa-pers, and will start out, it is predicted, with a republican re-publican form of government. The Swedes arc satisfied sat-isfied with the' ratified separation. Never' did a threatened conflict of nations end so happily in modern history. ' In Russia it is different, though not so bad as 'pessimists would make out. Russia has few friends among, the writers for newspapers in this country or in England; nowhere is the czar and his "people soberly discussed but in France. And prance is Russia's ally. All kinds of opinions but tho right opinions are expressed about thc doings and thc probable outcome of the mixed congress of people's representatives and those above them in nutbaritx- Of course the peasantry will not get all they demand de-mand or even the largest share of what they are entitled to. But it should not depress but encourage encour-age them, to make haste slowly. Russia is a government gov-ernment like none other. It is thc most autocratic on eartlu The will of the emperor is above everything else. Yet autocratic as if is, tyrannical as it was, men arc living in Russia who were once serfs, i Now they are landed proprietors and have i a voieci in the making of its laws.' Tribulation and defeat in war have brought most of these changes since thc time of the first Nicholas. Turn we now to Austria-Hungary. History is repeating-itself there. It is the grim logic of the incohesiveness of nations speaking different tongues and with different aspirations from the king binding bind-ing thein all in one sovereignty. Hungary has virtually vir-tually a government and parliament of its own as Norway had when united to ' Sweden. But the Scandinavian tongue is not tho tongue of the' (jKeclrjat!d'ihodozeu other races of the empire of ' Austria-Hungary. T!:? united -government of Swc- . i den and Xorway is no comp'arison upon which to J form an opinion of the disunited of Hungary and the states of the Balkans. The one person who has kept turmoil from breaking out into open insurrection in-surrection is the Emperor Francis Josef. When he is dead and he cannot live much longer Hungary will become independent. It is the logic of history. No nation has been eternally crushed by another of different race. It cannot be wiped out altogether. alto-gether. Even Finland and Poland will again take their place as nations, and perhaps sooner than anticipated. an-ticipated. The dispatches this morning (Thursday) give an account of a socialist riot in BudapcsfTthc capital cap-ital of Hungary. Wherever such events-take place it i$ socialists who are tho loudest and most vehement ve-hement in such protestations for human rights with brawny muscle. Perhaps thc socialists may carry the other parties to insurrection off their feet. They have already made great progress and given much trouble to the existing government there as they have in other parts of Europe. . There is no use denying their strength in number and perseverance in propaganda. Some day they will capturo one of the nations of Europe and set up the socialist form of government. Let it come; thc sooner the better. Au object lesson is all tkat is needed to convince men of that school of thc fallacy of their theories. If so, why not Hungary for a fair trial of thc experiment I . |
