The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
THE ROW IN EUROPE.

A Picturesque Account of the Manner in
Which the Great Powers Are Trying to
Kill the Turkish Snake.
M. D. Conway writes from London to
the Cincinnati Commercial: remem-
Der once hearing Mazzini say that
within his time he had seen many
OF the noblAst 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. He
had In his mind the apparent net re-
suits of the movement of Garibaldi,
whose very faint degree of compromise
ended In surrender of what his hero
ism had won. Garibaldi won in spite of
and against the will of the King of
Italy-that King, afraid to reverse the
work because OF the people, sends to tine
victor his verv liberal Minister, and
Garibaldi thinks the victory must be safe
in such highly liberal hands. But the
Minister delivers up the position won to
his master, the King; the King delivers
it to his master, Napoleon ILL.,: Napo
leon 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.
Mazzini's 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 reached revolu
tionary pitch. There has been enough
popular enthusiasm and wrath here to
have swept away half a dozen tyrannies
ont of Europe. IF any real leader, any
genuine friend of liberty. had been in
power and had said the word, all Eng
land, which has for some time been a big
indignatio meeting would have marched
eastward as an army. But all this pas
sionate force has been submitted to men
who have no sympathy with it or it's
purpose-rnen who, night and day, have
simply been continuing how they might
evade it, break it's strength, turn aside
its fury. They are succeeding. If Rus
STA only had people in the same sense
that England has, the result would be
different, but in Russia there is no class
between the peasant, just now a serf,
and the aristocracy. 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 prob
ably end in seating the Sultan little
more firmly than he was before. HUI
manity will have to be content with de-
irving one more lesson concerning the
nature of despotism in all its phases and
degrees. Whether the present genera
ton can get sufficient perspective to take
in the tableau of Europe or not, it will
hardly escape the next generation. Six
mighty powers have gathered around the
big snake, whose venom has desolated
so many fair lands and homes. Chief
among the six are two which bear the
standard of saint celebrated for having
killed big dragon. They now have the
snake submissive on the ground in the
corner of their diplomatic circle. Snake
pleads 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 do with the snake9 Gortchakof
alone suggests killing him. GortchakoH
ruled out as cold-hearted. 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
bit of that snake. Bismarck suggests
cutting off bit of his tail, dividing it
into six equal parts, each of them to
carry his sixth back home, to be placed
in 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 hesnake won't bite them.
Gortchakeff vows he'll not consent to
anything less than pulling all the fangs
out. Disraei urges that Allah, or the
God of Isaac, he doesn't care which,
created snake-fangs for some wise pur-
pose; and if. incidentally, the Babylo-
mans have been bitten, the cure is to lift
up particularly brazen serpent in Con
and invite all the sufferers,
with Prince Milan at their head, to come
and pay homage to it. To this Disraei
adds that he does not at all object to
giving all the provinces that have been
desolated by the snake the status quo.
They are to be freely granted permission
to have all their dead women and chill
dren back again, and all their ruined
villages may be restored again by them
selves, provided they agree to pay some
what larger taxes than usual to indem-
Nifty the snake for his trouble in having
devastated the same. At last accounts
Disraeli had somewhat modified his pro-
posal under the influence of punch
from Lord Derby's elbow, and the ques-
ton under debate was whether one fang
or two should be extracted before the
serpent was released into the green fields