Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-26
The Row in Europe.

The Row in Europe.
n. D. Conway writes from London
to the Cincinnati Commercial: I re-
member once hearing Mazzini say that
within his time he had seen many Of
the noblest revolutions frittered away
and brought to nothing by their
achieved victories being delivered
over by the people to be applied and
carried out by men who were not their
friends. lie had in his mind the ap.
parent net results Of the movement Of
Garibaldi, whose very faint degree of
compromise ended in surrender of
what his heroism won. Garibaldi
won in spite of and against the will of
the king of Italy-tllat king. afraid to
reveise the work because Of the pe0-
pie. sends to the victor his very liber-
al minister, and Garibaldi thinks the
victory must be safe in such highly
liberal hands. But the minister de-
livers up the position won to his mas.
ter, the king the king delivers it to
his master, Napoleon III, Napoleon
delivers it over to his master, the
Pope; and so passing through all the
degrees the grand revolution Of Carl
baldi ends in strengthening the very
power against which it was directed.
Mazzinis words arise to my mind to-
day, in view of the situation into
which the Anglo-eastern question is
steadily gravitating. During the last
few months English feeling has
eacheda revolutionary pitch.
There has been enough popular en-
thusiasm and wrath here to have
swept away half a dozen tyrannies out
of Europe. If any leader, any genu-
inc frieId of flibeIty had been in power
and had said the word, all England,
which has for some time been a big in.
dignaticn meeting, would have march.
ed eastward as an army. But all
this passionate force has been submit
ted to men who have no sympathy
with it er its purpose-men who night
and day have simply been contriving
how they might evade it, break it's
strength turn aside it's fury. They
are succeeding. If Russia only had a
people in the same sense that England
has, the Jesuit would be different, but in
Russia there is no class between the
peasant, just now a serf, and the aris-
tocracy. France is too weak to do
anything and Germany too selfish.
The six powers are soulless. All the
storm Of popular feeling in Europe
aroused by Turkish atrocities will
probably end in seating the sultan a lit
tie more firmly than he was before.
Humanity will have to be content with
deriving one more lesson concerning
the nature of despOtism in all its phases
nd degrees. Whether the present gen.
ration can get sufficient perspective
to take the tableau Of Europe or not.
it will hardly escape the next gener'
alton. Six mighty powers have gath
cred arornd the big snake, whose ven.
ON has desolated 80 many fair lands
and homes.
Chief among the six are two which
beaNii.e standard of Il saint celebrated
for aRing killed a big dragon. They
now have the snake submissive on the
ground in the corner of their diplO'
matte circle. Snakes plead for mercy
being unable to plead for anything
else. Survivors from the snakes fangs
cry out that mercy to snakes is cruelty
to human beings. Suggestion ruled
out as undiplomatic. But what to dc
with the snake! Gortchakoff alone
suggests killing him. Gortschakof1
is ruled oat as cold.headed. Disraeli
says ''Swear him, and let him CO.
Derby says that will turn him out OF
office he must really be able to show
Englishmen a bit of that snake. Bis
marck suggests cutting off a bit of his
tail, dividing it into six equal parts
each of them to carry his sixth
back home, to be placed i'll the Royal
museum. Andrassy will not consent
to that, unless he is allowed two bits
out of the six. Italy and France begin
to speak, but are told to shut up and
sit down ; the snake won't bite them
Gortschakoff VOWS he'll not consent
to anything less than pulling all the
fangs out. Disraeli urges that Alial
or the God of Isaac, he doesn't care
which, created snake.fangs for some
wise purpose; and if, incidentally, thu
Babylonians have been bitten, the cure
is to lift up particularly brazen ser
pent in Constantinople and invite al
the sufferers, with Prince Milan a
their head, to come and pay homage t.
lit. To this Disraeli adds that he doe
not at all object to giving all the prov
inces that have been des0lated by th'
snake the status quo. They are to b.
freely granted permission to have al
their dead women and children bacl
again, and all their ruined village
may be restored again by themselves
pl divided they agree to pay somewha
larger taxes than usual to idemnif
the snake for his trouble in havin
devastated the same. At last account
Disraeli had somewhat modified hi
proposal under the influence of
nudge from Lord Derby's elbow, an
the question under debate was whetf
er one fang or two should be extracte
before the serpent was released int
the green folds If status quo.