The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-09-01
ENGLAED's NEW CYPRUS,
H AN AMERICAN LAWYER,

undeviatingly through i'll report thu
country works out the policy Of maxim
oer own the great roads and highways q
commerce. She stretches out the Briarea,
arms OF colonization until ~clasping New
Zealand and Newfoundland they cover tn,
lndies, st. Lawrence, Hudson's Bay. nm,
bengal frozen regions that play around tn
pole in icy circles, India where Less than
handful Of their sturdy men. under 4 mi,
mud and sometimes comprehensive. cover,
hundreds OF millions whose toll contrib.
ntes 70 the o~yer-toppling of the bank o.
nngianu. AS a colonizing power Rom,
never equaled Great Britain.
In isI2 it was said that England aban.
aoned her traditional policy. The circum.
stances OF the time, the tendencies of the
administration demanded a concentration
OF ner nome strength. The colonial pos.
sessions We're to look out for themselves.
independent nationalities were to be formed
whose policy should continue and extern d
mat OF the home government. It was
even said in quiet circles, that never
Whisper so loudly as when they do NOT
whisper at all. that Gibraltar was to he
gwen up to Spain, and Helipoland. that
rapidly d~isintegrating pier Of chalk. was to
SO 10 Iermany. Political events have re.
rersed all such ideas, and to-day, without
nring n shot, Great Britain has obtained a
.,ch possession, which in itself, and from
the manner in which it was ACQUIRED. must
largely increase her already great power in
the Orient.
10 become a little familiar with the
reader, let us take down q map. II can he
thirty years old, but not more ancient. II
Is OF the Mediterranean Sea. You will
uolce at Ito very entrance where il in
crowded back by the Atlantic, a monster
rock 1rowning down upon the narrow straits
separating the continents of Europe and
AFRICA That rock is Gibraltar. Its name
means impregnability. Go still further
eastward in your course, and keepino
nearly a straight line you will strike the
western sands of Malta. This is the
second fortress and naval station of Great
britain, and a vast one in extent is II.
Keep on with your line almost STRAIGHT
from the first, and ut the extreme eastern
end OF that sea which is now more than
ever what Napoleon styled it seyepty.six
years ago, an English lake." you will rest
"t cyprus, the newest station of England
on ner route from Liverpool to the East.
cyprus mas q total area of three thousand
SIX hundred aud seventy three square miles.
and q horde, for it is not a population. OF
not far from two hundred thousand souls.
lt Is n mixed population. There are
wrecks, Turks, Jews. Catholics, and Ar.
menians. Europe with her babblinp mil.
ions and more than ignorant interpreter
OF such babbling has sent hither her trading
population, who fly from the rapidly turn
ing wheels OF her business, like LIQUIDS
nmpid and dark from the revolutions OF a
disc. This Cyprus island is we'll known
Far back when history was twiliobt- its
name comes down as a market where men
stretched seven-eighths and made IL a
yard. 1t had mines upon mines: Pbeni-
clans deived and digged them, died wealthy.
and ~dissipated ons dissipated their gold
ana copper. Then came the Greeks and
Inc fersians-and when they were gone.
along came the Romans. The Crusaders
twisted it from the feminine hand of the
arecian empire, which WINS tottering with
.mDecihty, and the Crusaders made it q
kingdom. After these came the venetians.
and with them came Othello, the youth who
went crazy because his wife picked up a
kerchief Of another man, the texture Of
which was q little finer than he had been
manly enough to give to his own BESIDE
mona. Who knows bat the wine which
made the honest Cassie an unwilling dupe
of q duple Iago, was of the cloudy vintage |
of this very island. The city of the Laocoons
raised hard fighters on the wine of Cyprus
but it WASH wine that gave no color in the
cup
The capture by the Turks in 1911 of the
island of Cyprus was one of the banner
days in the short reign of the Sultan Selim, |
son of Solyman, who. by the way-the !
father-had not as much horse sense as the
king with fewer consonants in his surname. |
The capture of Cyprus somewhat consoled |
the Turks. They had lost Lepanto, md
would not be comforted. "Lepanto is
but the shaving of q beard" said the
naughty Ottoman to his Christian con.
queror " the beard will grow again but
Cyprus is the cutting off of the head,
which can never grow again." 1t was true,
what the Ottoman said, for with the ex-
ception OF a few years when it was under
the viceroy of Egypt, Turkey has held the
island until within n fortnight. Its story
under the Turkish dominion does not mate.
rally differ from what it was under other
Ottoman possessions. 1t comes to England
with its industries ruined, its marvellous
mineral wealth destroyed, its .harbors un-
frequented because of shoals which a
vacillating government has been too indo.
lent 10 remove. At present, its trade ia
relatively of no Importance. Under the
ngis OF England it will in all probability
become what Corfu has become-one OF
the worlds gardens. England pays an
annual lease of nearly two hundred thou.
sand pounds, which after all is nominal
thin disguise over her final purpose. the
Pto1NooAOh u III lSiAIu WHOSE strategic
position as h military base gives it great
Importance. Ninety-two miles distant lies
the coast of Syria, and from the bay OF
Fanagosta troops can be shipped at the
notice of an our. The Suez canal en-
trance is but three hundred 'miles-thc
canal is the property of England Disrael,
concluded that bargain in 1856.
From Cyprus to the valley of the Euph
rates, the distance is three hundred ana
ninety miles. England holds tina as til.
highway to the Persian gulf. These con.
siderations had no small share in determin.
ing Beaconsfield 10 possess the island as
another of the links of the chain between
Great Britain and the robbed continent
which gave to n queen the empty title OF
empress. Already British capitalists have
made application for permission to construct
a railroad in Cyprus. There is undevclop.
ed mineral wealth. There is trade unin.
creased, n dormant, and dead. There
are exports of madden, and cotton, and
fruits that have grown up and gone back
again to the mould. Turning for one mo.
ment from Cyprus to the willy Jew who
gave it to his queen, s;ngularly enough one
finds his name connected with the history
Of Venice. In 1748 the grandfather Of
Lord Beaconsfeld. q wealthy jew who had
made his fortune in Venice, went to Eng
land, intending to make it the base of his
future career. His ventures, though not
overshadowing, were repeated successes.
In l766 his son Isaac Disraeli was born.
His father wanted him to be q merchant.
but he had too much brain for that" as
q biographer said. He went into literature.
and came away at death with such books as
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