Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — Ken tacky's "Jim Crow" Law. [ARTICLE]

Ken tacky's "Jim Crow" Law.

The law in Kentucky for separate railway coaches for white and black is now in force. The negroes will fight it in the courts.

Why France is Hostile to Germany, Harper’s Weekly. We hear it frequently said that if Germany would only restore Alsace and Lorraine to France, the French would at once cease to be hostile to Germany, and the situation would be relieved of the strain. This is a mistake. If Alsace and Lorraine were thus restored, the French would take it as a demonstration not of conciliatory feeling, but of conscious weakness on the part of the Germans, and the chances are ten to one that they would then revive their old demand for the frontier of the Rhine as the “natural frontier of France," avail themselves of the first favorable opportunity to get it, and thus to wipe out the disgrace of their defeat in the war of 1870 and 1871. But even if this were not so. the decisive fact would still remain that it was not alone the acquisition of the two provinces by Germany, but mainly the formation of the German Empire as the leading power in central Europe, that has excited the bitter jealousy and resentmen tof France, and of Russia also. The dissolution of the. German Empire, the breaking up of Germany into a number cf comparatively powerless states, is the real object of their desire, and until this object is accomglished their hostile feeling will not e essentially changed. In fact, the acquisition of Alsace and Lorraine, with the two great fortreses of Metz and Strasburg, has so strengthened the defensive position of Germany on its western frontier as greatly to discourage a French attack, and it is therefore rather a guaranty of peace than an excitement to war.