The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-16
THE WAR PROSPECT.
The situa ton In Europe Assuming n seri-
Gus Aspect.
From the New York Times

From the New York Times.l
Whatever influences may have brought
about the reinforcement of one Sultan
and the installation of another, the
European dispatches prove clearly that
the Eastern question, instead of being
settled by the change, steadily assumes
a more serious aspect. Not that there is
any visible disposition on the part of
the allied rulers of Russia, Austria and
Germany to press unduly the stipula-
tons set forth in their memorandum, or
to resent the unfriendly tone adopted
by Great Britain in reference to them.
On the contrary, they are acting with
singular moderation, though with unim-
paired unity. But the logic of events
is more potent than the protestations of
diplomatists, and is evidently producing
a crisis which sooner or later must
eliminate In the gravest of all troubles,
unless there be change of purpose and
position on one side or the other.
Great Britain has already abandoned it's
neutral attitude, and is supplementing
the verbal encouragement it gave to one
Sultan by furnishing material aid to his
successor. The landing of arms for
Turkish troops Identifies Britain with
the Porte as against the insurgents, and
comes so near an overt act of interven-
ton that it must be followed, if neces-
sary, by help in other forms. The i'm
mediate effect will be to incense the in
surgents and add to the explosive force
already accommodating in Servia, Rou-
mania, and Montenegro. One alliance
begets another. The tributary States
are between two fires, and will be I'M
able much longer to restrain popula-
ton bound together by ties of enmity to
the common oppressor. The thin dis
guise which Britain has hitherto pre-
served has been thrown off, and antag-
onism to the position assumed by
Russia is avowed in a manner which
at this distance looks not unlike a me-
mace.
This version of the outlook is not in
compatible with the reported improve
ment in the London stock market, and
the slight change for the better which
was yesterday experienced here. Specu-
lators and financiers are seldom far
sighted in their estimate of international
difficulties. They are rarely guided by
more than the tendencies which at the
moment happen to be uppermost. The
ultimate effects OF foreign policy do
not enter into their calculations nor are
they accustomed to trouble themselves
with the probabilities of danger which
may grow out of the Emergencies which
exist in the spirit and aim of rival
powers. There may be no danger of
deliberate, premeditated conflict. 1t
must be remembered, however, that the
chief Austrian Minister, in the utter
ances that have recently been attributed
to him, has not attempted to give assur-
ances of pacific adjustment of troubles,
except so far as they refer to the pass
ing hour. The real, lasting source of
war proceeds from the irreconcilable
purposes and policy of England and
Russia in relation to the East. The diff
ference between Turkey and its Princi-
palites are important only in their rela.
tons to this larger question, and be-
cause of that fact that movements in
themselves comparatively trivial may by
an accident be converted INTO The begin
ming of struggle from which few of the
leading European powers could long
stand aloOf