The Meeting of the Emperors.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1919, 23 October 1884, Page 3

The Meeting of the Emperors.

The semi-ofhcial Journal of St Poteisburg ii authority for tlie statement th.it thp present meeting of the thiee Einpriors moans, nist of all, " peace." But it must bo a peace policy nn their teims, such as the late Em pel or Louis Napoleon used to give out .is Ins policy when he had resolved upon bullying Austin, or Russia, or Prussia, into' his temis. Otherwise the meaning of this impel i.il consultation may be war, or such a dictatoislnp over Euiope as must inevitably lead to wai with any Power that dates to cross thi* will of the dictatonal fniiimnate. "There is no question" at tins meeting" of formal alliances on special agi cement V says the St Petersburg paper. No thick-and-thin, three-m-a-bed friendship. Only this : " The undeistanding aheady cxi-ting on all gieat questions will be confiunod," and " on all gieat questions outside of the pi esont statu quo' the the trmmviis " will act conjointly where their inteu\sts differ."' But they ogicc on one point and that is " to keep a watchful eye on all those who disturb the existing order of things." This may imply that the C/,ar and the Hapbbmg Empeior consent that Germany may aid Fiance agaiiiht England in case of a war between those two nations Jt certainly does mean that France shall not be allowed to get back Alsace Lonaine, for that would seiiously " dishub the existing ordei of things ;" that England shall not be allowed to swallow l/^vpt, for that would bieak the statu quo nf the Porte. For the lot, the interests of the thiee coincide in the preservation of despotism and in the suppression of radicalism and nihili.sm ; and on this point they ceitaiiily vwll all agiee to act "conjointly. 1 ' They will all readily consent that Bismaick shall go on with his African and New Guinea colonization schemes to his hoart's content, whatever England may nay or do ; and that Russia shall hold all she has. in Central Asia, and as much more as she can talep But when it comes to the consideration of the existing status of things on the Lower Danube, we may well suspect that they will not all agree, though th"y may try to harmonize their differences. Austria ard Russia are each equally ambitious to become the leader in a great Slavic confcdeiation, and in spite of all efforts at harmony on this question, they will have each other by the tin oat till one or the other is strangled. — San Francisco Chronicle, September, 20.