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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 51, 3 December 1892, Page 6

'there is a storm brewing ontbe Continent. Cablegram* from both Berlin* and' Par's, though neceiwuilj brief, arepregnant with meaning to those, wbo» can read between the lines. The speechesmarie by Count Yon Caprivi, Bismarck a nocceaaor, by the young Bropeior, and. by member* of the German Chamber,, and the. general tone, of the, French, cables, also-show a profound unrest, and exhibit :uiimuUakeable ? Bigps that there is a foetus in vitro. . The powibilitiet ofi the breaking out, of ,th« ancient fend between Germany and France inoatr •lwayfl'be before European politician* The military' spirit in inherent iv both' nation in the.one, taking the form of Holid warlike ob»«iuacy, and desire for national aggrandisement, and in theother, a Celtic love of,.combat coupled< wiih an intense national amur^ propre, which is not at all sooihad- by the memories ot Meis, Bedan, and Paru. .. The Prance and Gurmanj of 1870 1 were not however, what the France and* Germany are ot 1b92 The power of recovery of, the farmer, country s-something to marvel at. In 1815> she was soldier less, defaneelw*. moneyless, and friendless. Famine, disease, ami'poverty reigned over all ht»r fair soiK Bo* with the ratoin f>f. the BoQtboiiß, and by the patianl iudoutiy of her peasantry, a.fpw jeat'B restored her, position among, the nations of Earopfi Thtottghout the icentury sh« hd.-v fdlleiv time.aud aguiu, bu /( onJy to> rice «tronfifer,on f eaoh occasion—Uke the fubled giant, who, wht»n vast ( to the earth, rose, seveu .tiuaes stronger each' time.. After the fcta-miu ,war—the tremendous w«ti —lu/iejunuy; a«d tha other lu«es were rapidly made op 4 and' Flaunt aiaud» to-day, in milnary power*

the eqnal of any of the Cnntiuenial nations. Amonjj the Oehic racen, hpro-woi>hip is part of human nature. Tliev rnu-t have sonaethintf to I -ok up to aud urioie Sometimes—often—ihe yofi h-t- feet of clay. The French and th* Iri^h hnve been'unfortii>m«e in their heroes, vide JNapoleon 111., B >ulHTitrer, «r»fl Harwell, ""but when they »h m ihev aremoitlv Tery loyal Presidents of a Repblic; »rp nof usual iy m «de heroes of, or" if they,.are, are r n pHly tran^foruied,'or transform ihemsVlve » Into King's ami E'npb'fora.. No Wf there is a nf^ri of .he return'''of .the mrtnat'cfiiHl teelititr iv France. ' A wire da^d Novemb r 'J^h, and published in Thjir^ny's * Hemli," say»: — " The Paris' cori'e spo"cletit of the * Times ' wires that the French Chamber of Deputies is disvmir the jfrave ot h» R pub ie," and bttween <he linen of French news generally thire iiafl ivour of ami Republicnnisrp It only wants the Man and the Moment. And in France Monarchy means Mili» a t-i\m. They wilL.com* together m d Frnnce ••Will strike.

Germany is not the .German* of 1870 The grand old Emperor' Wi fam i* no more, hnd the niasrnißeen* Cr.»w-i Prince, who ap briefly refined a? »h© B nneror .Frederick, xleeeps with h«m whce th^re -» no more war—Hnd in their stead inhere reigns »n impulsive, foolish youOR ,mai,,who is merely tnlr>a»ed on t'>e Strength ot tradition. Bisnarek, the >niaij of/blood »»nd iron—th" author oF the unity of the Oermnn Rm .ire—the VOue still strong.man M_-ni,d the mo^t astute statesman (with Bencopsfi B) of modem times, has gone under, nwin^ n» this Heno'4^4 yoath. V.m M>!tke's practised hand can no more play the gamti of war, and the country is.in the hands of tbosej who, for the sake of pomiion, are »h« pliant tool* of a voimsr man who tppears no m'»re fit > be »he head of affuirs than th» mad Bavarian kinaf. What a ter-ifio contest it will be when if comes! With all rhe new appliances for wholesale rmtrder that 'we hfar of,—wih all those, the secret a Ot which -ret «o je;t]niiily sfiwrded, w'ifoh wed-) not hear of—rhts« result- of Jin, de B>e>;U 'so encf, so <;almU' »h<m?hi out -'in rhe Ix'b <r it<>r\- with iheon« fiwri-M-h end i now ! And v> hce is th<? end of it all?