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.r OPPRESSIVE PEACE. _ Europe Living the Life of 9. Canton- ment. industry Inert and Progress Stagnntcd- None Dare “’ork for Fear of Call to Fightâ€"Irritation Bred or Mllltarlsm. Two accounts have reached London re- cently,'savs the Spectator, as to military preparations on the Continent, which may prove to have even a historic importance. According to one, the Austrian Government and people have alike determined that they will not increase the numbers of their soldiers or the expenditure on their army, believing that they have al ready nearly reached the limit of exertion, and had better wait for the last supreme effort until war actually breaks out. According to another, the moderate leaders of the German Liberals are earnestly entrsating’thc Government not to dissolve on the Army bill lest the Emperor should be defeated, but rather to seek some compromise, or even withdraw the measure. The country, these Liberals had previously said, is sick of sacrifices. Even should both tliese:accounts be a little exaggerated, and some further concessions be made to mili- tarism, they indicate a general opinion among persons not hostile to Governments in the abstract that the great military States of Central Europe have reached the limit of war-like preparation in peace time, and must henceforward await events with all the fortitude they may. They can polish their ' wea ons acquire better arms, or avail them- I - selves of any new inventions ; but they can utilize no more of their population until war actually arrives. This decision, moreover, had previously been announced by Italy, which, indeed, pressed by her financial burdens, ehad even slightly reduced her forces, and revised, with a view to economy, all the arrangements for a sudden mobiliza- tion of her troops. The whole of central Europe, therefore, may be reported to have agreed that they will not invade, and can do no more to render themselves SAFE AGAINST INVASION. Nearly the same may be said of the threat- ening powers upon their borders. France is as completely armed as she can bear ; has, indeed, reached the end of the conscription possible in peace time, has finished her for- tresses,; and in spite of her extrradinary wealth which the rest of the world even yet hardly realizes, is most unwilling, before war is actually upon her, to increase the burdens on her people. Russia is in almost the same position. Her finances are strain- ‘ed to the last point, and it is doubtful whether she would gain strength by ac- cumulating more of her army in the West, where already the increased cost of food, forage and barrack accommodation is severe- ly felt by the Military Department, which still requires large sums to perfect its sup- plies of scientific munitions of war. If this is an accurate accountâ€"and we be- lieve it to rest upon the best information â€" the whole Continent has at last reached a position in which an armed peace, excessive- ly but not uncndurably costly, may last for years, perhaps even for a generation. The rulers are afraid to break it, ~ and the peoples are not even inclined. The former understandthe magnitude of the risks to be run, the equality of the two great parties into which Europe is divided, and the diffi- culty of discovering the military genius whichalone could secure durable victory to one side or the other. They have to pick for the most part among untried men ; and .in modern warfare the untried man may, if he is a failure, bring a State to destruction too speedily to allow even of his superses- sion. The latter understand the horrible carnage which will mark the next campaign ; and though they will face it if attacked,they do not urge their rulers to begin, are inclin- ed, indeed‘, to praise their wisdom when they close up questions which might lead to war. ’l'liey are sensible folk, and have their bones to take care of if they can. I Thisis a kind of peace, and one would say a priori that, except as regards taxation, it was a satisfactory kind. The nations are not seriously hurt by the necessity of ass- ing their lads through the military mill, in which they learn how to obey, how to face danger, and how to act together in strict association under men more enlightened than themselves. Military training, when it is not cruel, is good training ; and in most armies the disposition toward cruelty is kept UNDER STRICT REPRESSION. There can, moreover, hardly be a stronger or more permanent basis for peace than fear of one’s enemy, or doubt whether any breach of it may not, in the end, involve ruin. Treaties may be broken, distances may be overcome, the absence of pretexts ma sud- denly be made good, but a good healthy dread of the fight must keep the armed populations from each other’s throats. That is perfectly true, and is admitted by the .most statesmaulike observers. But this kind of peace has, nevertlielesa, peculiarities which weigh upon the minds of men. For one of them it does not pro- duce confidence, either in rulers or their peoples. The former will not disarm for an hour, however great the relief would be to their treasuries and their subjects; the latter will not enter on any undertaking which cannot- be finished in a few months. Industry does not languish, and enter rise is not dead, but the capital of the world accumulates in heaps, only to be retained in heaps “ until there is more certaint .” The projectors of new undertakings find themselves dealing with capitalists sudden- ly gone old, stricken with caution, inclined to count time and to say they must leave projects so great to be considered by their successors. It is time for the direct rail- way to- India, time for great works in the way of storage of water, time for makin the interior of Africa fully accessible, but the nations shrink back, and with money choking all markets, say they would rather wait for a more assured peace. The quiet is real, as real as the quiet in a camp at night ; but it has none of the material ad- vantages of quiet. Nobody, so to speak, dare strip to his work, or put himself in any position in which, if the quiet were broken by loud cries, he could notinstantly be ready to meet any danger, however uii- expected. The pace of the whole industri- al world has become slower, and if the truce lasts thirty years, those years will show less advance in industrial progress than in any of the recent thirties which have preceded them. The nations grow rich, it is true; but it is as men grow rich by agriculture, not as they grow rich in bustling and prosperous workshops. There is a lull even in intellectual life, a lull in the production of great men, a lull in the p Y P Y S appearance of great books, a life going on like the life of a cantonment, where there is no war and no peace, and everything is dully expectant of a contingency which may never occur, but to meet which every- thing must be kept in an orderly routine. The armed peace produces something like the halt of an army where all is quiet, but all effort is felt to be useless or out of place, and is consequently half-hearted. It is a strange, situation and there is a stranger point in it yet. The advocates of peace all say, and till to-day we should have believed say truly, that peace is a good thing because, among other results, it assua es animosities, teaches people to settle difficul- ties as private firms do, and disinclines na- tions to those exaggerations of their griev- ances which are the usual PRELUDES TO WAR. If that is not true, there is no hope for the world as far as war is concerned, and certain- ly, though we do not belong to the peace party, or see how nations can settle differ- ences such as divide France or Germany ex- cept by war, we should never dream, as a rule, of denying the proposition. Peace should breed peace, but we would ask an honest advocate of peaceâ€"does this particu‘ lar truce, long as it has lasted and long as it may be expected to continue, produce any of these results '2 As far as we can see, the irritability of the nations grows instead of lessening. The French really hate the Ger- mans harder than they did twenty years ago, and are beginning to hate us too, who have nothing to do with that quarrel, and the Italians also, as if peace had only enriched their general fund of malignity. The Ger- mans are hardly better, though they are less fussy, and inclined to spend more of their bottled ire upon the Russians, whom they attack, we are told, in whole series of publications which we never see. As for the Hussians, the peace does not make them love the Germans one whit better, or the Aus- trians whom the whole Russian army would eagerly attack, more eagerly than they would have done before the peace began. There has been no moral effect of the peace, though it has now lasted among the great powers unbroken for tWenty years, which a Christian or a thinker, or a man of sense can consider in the last degree credit- able or useful. There has been none of the calming effect of sleep, none of the pacify- ing effect of holiday, none of the good tem- per often begotten of a period of reflection. There is not even a recurrence to ordinary life, the smallest incident producing an angry snapping, only repressed, when it grows too loud, by prudential considera- tions. A visit by a monarch to a friend, like that of the Hapsburg to the Quirisnal; or afalse statement about a statesman, like that attributed to Herr Brandes about M. Carnot’s family ; Or a marriage of a prince- let in the far east of Europe, makes the great nations ready to bite each other from malice, and would, were not the biting likely to be so costly, compel war. If they could fight comfortably east of the Cape, as we and the French used to do, or west of Cape Horn, as we and the Spaniards form- erly did, without involving Governments at home, they would do it, and feel only relieved of a. portion of their spleen. We can'recall nothing like it in this century except the short halts in the series of Napoleon’s wars ;. but even they wore a different aspect. They were breathing spaces in a combat known to be undeter- mined ; but this is a truce, lasting almost a lifetime, between enemies who are not fight- ing, but are wearing themselves out with training in order, as they declare with sin- cerity, that they may not fight. Can history show anything in the least like that ‘I -â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"_â€"- Trade Ana Industrial Items. St. Louis taxes telegraph poles $5 apiece. Ireland has thirty co-operative dairy societies. Their are 20,187 union miners in the Na- tional Union. Boston plasterers’ tenders won the eight- hour day. . In 1385 the authorities at Danzig ordered the ears cut off of strikers. At Boston most of,the machinists have been accorded the nine-hour day. Peoria railroaders struck against the dis- charge of twenty-seven men for drinking. Chair manufacture is a trade in which machinery has not superseded human skill. Bricklayers and masons on a Grand Rapids, Mich., job struck for $4 and eight hours. A municipal plant gives Allegheny, Pa... electric light for one and one-half cents per hour per lamp. About 3,000 brickworkers leave Canada for the States every Spring and return to their homes inthc Autumn. The American Federation of Labor has issued a. popular petition for signatures, addressed to both branches of Congress, requesting that laws be passed establishing a Government telegraph and telephone service. The petitions are to be returned to General Secretary Christopher Evans, 14 Clinton place, New York, not later than November lst. The Chicago Central Labor Union has instructed its affiliated unions to order their members to work on Sundays when convenient and take their holidays on Saturday during the continuation of the World’s Fair. This arrangement has been contemplated to enable the workingmen to visit the fair Without losing a day’s work, a. t will be closed on Sundays. In the heart of Toronto Junction, on iDundas St. and close to all the factories, the undersigned has a parcel of land (in lots to suit purchasers) recently held at $150 per foot. New loan arranged of $45 per foot at 6 per cent. Offers wanted to close this properly out as existing encumbrance must be. paid off. Money invested in this will treble itself veiy shortly. Next lot was sold lately at $100 per foot. Apply GEO. CLARKE, 35 Wellington Street East, or A. CECIL GIBSON, Canada Life Building, 46 King Street W’est, Toronto. Nearly half of the Public schools of On- tario still refuse to use the authorized Scrip- ture readings. Of the 5,181 schools open 2,079 adhere to the Bible and 3,151, which is a decrease of four hundred as compared with the previous year, follow the plan of Scripture readings. Religious instruction is given in all the schools save 390, and dur- ing last year 5,451 visits were made by cler- gymen. While the spiritual welfare of the children is thus receiving attention, their morals are not being neglected. Temper- ance and hygiene were last year taught to 151,817 pupils, whereas fifteen years ago instruction along theSe lines was given to only 18,984. The mineint. r _ u H 'l zillihsitgg-Hme and celebrated salt ' K t Wicliczka, nine contmuouSly for licia a province salt 15 calculated 3 been worked twenty-miles broad all? The mass 0 Let ever enfeebled amilcs long, There’s medicine that’ll ciilthick. roof’s positive I \ it! 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