Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1878 — Sly Old Bismarck. [ARTICLE]

Sly Old Bismarck.

There seems to. be a general feeling of disgruntlement over the decisions of the recent European congress. Russia is dissatisfied, but keeps quiet about it. Italy, however, is openly growling, and claims that having obtained Bosnia, ought now to give her the South Tyrol. Servia is grumbling, and thinks she ought to have had Bosnia, instead of Austria. Roumania is mad because she has lost Bessarabia. Greece is surly because she gets next to nothing for doing nothing. Last of all comes France, who is every day getting madder and madder because of England’s special convention with Turkey,' by which sh£ occupies Cyprus, and, as the French think, threatens Egypt. For how many of these soreheads is Bismarck responsible ? In occupying Cyprus as part of her scheme for protecting Asiatic Turkey aginst Russian aggrandizement, and agreeing to oppose Russia if she moved her frontier beyond Ears and Ardahan, did he foresee that it was inevitable Russia would extend her frontiers and thus provoke a bloody war with England ? When the English occupied Cyprus, did he forseee that it

would superinduce a constantly-increas-ing coolness between England and France, and soon smash the strong allianoe that has stood in his way so long ? Did he foresee that in each case, or in any case, Germany would be the gainer? And yet the’ cynic in the spiked helmet, who could have removed every possibility of trouble between the powers by a word, allowed them to go on, in the interests of peaoe !—Chicago Tribune.