The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-10-26 00:00:00

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During the last two years there has been un-
mistakeable evidence that the antipathies once
so manifestly marked had but faded for a time,
and then revived. Tile insurrection in Bulgaria
suppressed by the Turks with a ferocity that
elicited a burst of indignation here, was de-
clared to be due to Russian machinations; and
when the Czar declared war for the avowed
purpgse of liberating his fellow Christians from
an intolerable yoke, he was denounced as a
hypocrite, who merely wanted Turkish territory.
So strong did the tide of public feeling against
Russia run last winter, that war was shouted I
for with almost barbaric ardour. It was hoped
that the Treaty of Berlin, by establishing peace
upon a permanent basis, would have allowed the
nations to settle down each to its own affairs,'
that trade would revive and prosperity return.
Suddenly and unexpectedly the Afghan scare
appears upon the scene, and bids us prepare for
war. A cry goes up that it is all the doings of
Russia. Her invasion of Central Asia has
asnmed such proportions that Afghanistan now
is the only barrier between the Muscovite
power and British India ; and the experience of
Khiva and Bokhara show that Cabul will too
surely fall into Russian hands, and that then
the forces of the Czar would be thundering at
our very gates. In days long ago it was asked
" Can any good thing come out of Nazareth ? "
The Russophobists of the present age declare
that nothing good can possibly come out of St.
Petersburgh. And so two great peoples who
would find ample occupation in pushing forward
the works of peace, are once more set by the
ears, and shaking fists at each other in the
most warlike of attitudes. Meanwhile that rest
and confidence which alone can promote
prosperity is unknown, to the loss of those who
directly safer, and to the regret of all rightly.
thinking men.