Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-13

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Conservatives cared little for logic on
geography. The Trans-C outinentai Rail.
road from Caieutts might one day pass
through Bay&zid and Erzerum, and the
river Euphrates ran-Heaven only knew
how fars-toward the Persian Gulf and
Cathay, and the Romanofs always had
been smbitiousi II was not until the
Russians were driven back in disorder to
the frontier that these timorous Tories
had the nerve to face the map Of Arme-
MIA, and realized that they had been be-
trayed into senseless panic. But before
long there was another craze. The Rus
slams, after crossing the Danube unop-
posed, scaled the Balkans without firing
gun. The imagination of the Anglo
Turks pictured Ghourko's army as Q
fierce hawk perched upon the heights, its
wings quivering with Impotence and its
eye fastened upon its prey in the beauti.
full vale of Adrianople, while beyond lay
Constantinople aud the Dardanelles. A
breach had been made in the great ram
part of European Turkey and the enemy
could march into the Capital at his
leisure. Conservative Britain was again
swayed by its apprehensions. "A Russian
army, entrenched on the Dardanelles,
would menace the commercial supremacy
of England, intercept trade with Asia and
close the Suex Canal. Il was true that
the Gear had no feet, and it was past
finding out how the British navy could
be overwhelmed unless one of Homer's
storms should wreck in night the
mightiest ships in the world, and the
Turkish sailors, under an EDglish Admit
raj, should enlist in the Russian service |;
and, moreover, Prince Gortschakof, con-
cealing his amusement and cynicism,
denied in the most emphatic serms that
his Government had any designs upon
Egypt or the Canal; butthe Anglo Turks
crOaked and chartered none the less. That
| Trans Continental Railroad from Calcutta
might have it's terminus at Constantinoplc,
and, in any event, the Black Sea must
never be converted into q Russian dock
like the Caspian. A British feet must
anchor in the roadstead of Gallipoli, and
British soldiers must throw up entrench-
ments for the defence of the Dardanelles.
If Russia should make the freedom of
the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles one
of the conditions of peace, British soldiers
and sailors must be on the ground to re-
sist 90 audacious demand.
But why should not Russia demand
just that Why should she not have free
access to the Mediterranean and the
worldg John Bright does not know why
che should not have this natural right.
If St. Petersburg 10 the window which
Peter the Great framed so that Russia
could look out on Europe and sec what
was going on in London and Paris, Con-
stantinople Is the door Of her house by
which she can find her way out 10 the
world. Why should the door be closed
upon Russia alonei The British panic
mongers knew Why, John Bright did not.
British interests would be menscedi
But the panic has subsidized. The bat
lie Of Pievna hss checked the advance Of
the Rassi&zs. The Turks ere keeping
sheir foes a. bag. Ths British Govern
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