The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-28
THE WAR OUTLOOK.

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and blood having been already spilled
we in the United States, very naturally
are beginning to speculate upon the sub
ject, and wonder what is going to be tht
upshot of the whole matter.
At present, the European powers are
looking on at the combatants, apparently
undecided what course to pursue. ShoulC
they continue to do this, the result can be
pretty safely predicted. Russia being
the more powerful of the two nations
will, in the end, exhaust her opponent
and triumph over her. Still, she will
not be able TO accomplish this without
great difficulty. The Turks are deter
mined on desperate fighting, and, being
the invaded nation, will have over her
opponent decided advantages. To coun-
teract these, Russia is relying upon ma.
terial assistance from the Christians in
the Turkish provinces. To this end she
will attempt the occupation of Bulgaria.
and will offer to arm the Bulgarian
Christians If they will make common
cause with her. 1t seems to those fsmil-
lar with the facts, that in this, Russia may
be counting without her hest, for unless
she can secure protection to her hoped
Tor Christian allies, they will long hesi-
tate to excite Turkish ire, for massacre
of Christians Is a thing the Turkish heart
delights in, and it will not take much OF
provocatlon to start this game.
In fact, the pretext which Russia has
given for the wsr,-that OF protecting and
saving from Turkish atrocities the Chris.
tians of that snd,-is the only reason why
the remaining European powers, even so
far, remain neutral. But will they con-
tinue so? Most assuredly not, unless the
war is decided in short, sharp and
decisive campaign. They are not
at all anxious for Russia's sue
cess. They cannot, being them
Selves Christians, very we'll take up
arms against those of their own faith, TO
help the infdel MIsselmen; but behind
this religious pretext, they can see the
ambitious designs of the great Bear. 1t
is not so much the sllevistion Of the
sufferings OF the Christians after all
which is the great incentive. Russia has
never shown particularly large amount
OF zeal IN helping sufferers. 1t is the de-
sire TO control the Black Sea, and have
free ingress and egress for her ships
through the Bosphorus, which is the
main thing actuatlng Russia, and this the
rest of Europe knows. Let her, then,
give way to her ambitious designs; let
her show the slightest disposition to
make war for territory and aggression,
and she will have all Europe taking
part, and a general collision will be the
result.
Should such general contest occur,
this country would surely be the gamer.
Our productions of all kinds would be in
demand. War is terrible destroyer,
and uses up iron, cotton and woolen
goods, while men cannot fight unless they
have food. Thus there will be immense
demands for all these things from this
side of the water, and, of course, business
would be brisk, money plenty and the
balance of trade would be in our favor,
while, bank capital seeking for safety,
would be placed in our securities, which
would be, thereby, enhanced IN value
What is one mans loss, is another msn' S
gain" would very decidedly hold good,
and, in this case, the gain TO the United
States would be great indeed.
In view of these things, while we, of
course, do not desire to see such war, nor
the sacrifice of human life to be entalled
by it, we cannot shut our eyes to the
manifest advantage it would be to us, as
a people. We may therefore, congrstu-
late ourselves that we are too far of to
be ever brought into participation in the
struggle, and can, to say the least, watch
events on the other side with great
complacency.