The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-19

an unwilling assent to Temporary
settlement which partly disarmed her,
while it doubled the aggressive facilities
of Turkey and her hackers, she has,
time and again, demurred at violations of the
Paris treaty which, although trivial in them
selves, we're important as precedents for sub
sequent breaches of faith on larger aud
more menacing scale. Her complaints we're
unheeded, and the infractions continued until
by many statesmen the treaty was regarded
as dead letter One Of our special des-
patches, published on Saturday morning, re-
fers to this sentiment, and mentions the
frankness with which that wary diplomatist,
Count Bismarck, admitted that the Paris
treaty counted for nothing from the day when
Napoleon III openly declared that the treaty
of 1915 no longer bad effect.
TIE uncertainty of Count Bismarck is the
certainty of Europe. The powers of the
West have learned by their peculiar expert
epce to know that when the Prussian states
man speaks he docs SO by the book. His
contemplation of the crisis is its explanation.
The treaties of the last ffty-five years must
be revised. Prussia desires unity and Russia
desires security. Should Russia at the
present moment be compelled to make war
against the allies, her action would evidently
do more for German unity than all that the
Germans have done for themselves. not
wthstandiug the advantages that they have
gained in France. Why Because, should
Austria move land she is the only ally
that England could securely count upon
in the South of Europe) she would be
overwhelmed by the very first grand advance
that the Prusso- Russian armies woeld make
souhward. The consequence of such de-
feat would be the immediate accession of the
! German portions Of the Austrian empire to
the sum total of Fatherland. Austria would
! be ruined as an autonomic, Independent
power, and her shattered fragments would be
assembled and combined into United Ger
many. Should Italy become involved, con-
tngency which all her truly enlightened
statesmen and all her people would gre ltly
| deprecate. the Roman question on the one
! hand and the league of Garibadi and of
! Guiseppi Mazzini on the other would render
! it extremely difficult for her to muster any
! amy for a service not directly connected with
! her own national status.
Turkey is power respectable in position,
! in numbers, and in the fauatical devotion of
her people to the precepts of the Koran; but
Turkey is III the sere and yellow Leaf. Mo-
hammed represents order only, and order
has been greatly shaken in the Ottoman en-
pire by the introduction of Christian aud
modern ideas.
In fine, there is no real strength in the fan
cied coalition. The ties that would seem to
bind it together are ropes of sand, aud the
cabinets of the different powers would inf
nitely prefer peace to war; England alone
is in position where, perforce, she must as
sert herself, fearful as shs is of losing the
great highway that leads to her Oriental pos
sessions. England, indeed, with all her in
trjgues, is now in difficult position.
France, her grand ally in the entente cor
dfdLe, is stricken down while she has stood
aloof. She is stripped of Independent, initia-
tive power and, like the fox in the fable
whose tail had been shorn from him in n
trap, she seeks to persuade the other
powers that they, too, would be more safe
and prosperous without that useful append
age. Should she prevail there will be coali-
ton against Russia, to take effect at an early
date. Should she fail the Cossack period of
Europe would recommence-that is to say,
the weight of great power at the North
would press so heavily upon the political
status of Europe that the latter would have to
be revised in every part. Russia, as we have
shown, demands equal rights upon the Black
Sea, and control of the Black Sea commerce
means supremacy in the East. The Khedive
of Egypt already begins to take position for
an independence long desired and now in a
fair way of realization by Russian aid. Let
the war begin and Egypt will soon master tho
Isthmus of SueZ at home and the choicest
provinces of Turkey abroad. Thus power
will be built up upon the very track of the
great commercial and political progress of the
Orient grateful and devoted to Russia.
outlSip majesty of the great American re-
public. Our eyes are turned toward the
West, as the gaze of Russia turns toward the
East. These two powers are the Alpha and
the Omega of the future. A century hence,
perhaps, we may clash upon the broad expanse
of the Pacific, but to-day we are friends.
Unlike in everything, we agree by our dissi-
milarity. The principle that the Ozar upholds
in the Black Sea is our principle upon the
Gulf Of Mexico. America CON-
prehends the situation of the Mus
covite empire to-day, as she comprehends
hex own for tomorrow. The crowns quake
and the nations are agitated; but truth and
justice find their refuge with the strongest
exponent of established authority left to-day
in the Old World. Russia stepping into the
arena thus suddenly, guarantees reconstruc-
tion of Europe. That reconstruction can be
made in no other sense than for concord and
cooperation. Thus is the Gar, by the pro-
Vidence of God, revealed as the political Mes
siah of the moment. TIE word gone forth
from St. Petersburg and echoed in Washing
ton will be felt and obeyed from London to
Rome.