The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-30
The London crimes" Expression
OF English opinion.

Asi London Time represents the ma
tured opinion Of the English people fal
more faithfully than either the lorna
proclamaiions Of the ministry or the de
bates In parliament, the following from :
recent editorial deserves careful reading
"If the arrangements Of this treaty
promised quick and easy settlement o.
the controversies that have long ragged
round the throne Of the sultan, then II
might be long before the moral example
told uniavorAbly. But their comes the
perilous pass to which Russia has brought
herself and the civilized world. Not one
article OF this treaty has The promise o.
endurance The annexations, autonom'
ies, Independence and occupations can
not stand. Every part OF the Turkist
empire 10 placed on the slide 10 roll down
into the open lap Of Russia. The money
will have 10 be paid In territory, the in
dependencies will gravita,e to theii
stronger neighbor, the autonomies will
struggle for Independence and will b
helped thereto In the hope OF further
change. The arrangements which enable
Russia to grasp the neck OF the Danube
cannot possibly stand longer than circum'
stances shall compel her neighbors 10 en-,
dure Il. As soon IS ever the additional
hold gained by Russia on the Bosphorus
10 found injurious to the commerce or the
security oithe world, war there will Ger.
tainly be, and that no ordinary one, OF
leading to any lame and impotent con-
clnsion. Here there Is nothing but q
house Of cards. There is hardly the II.
lusion OF tixity. Russia Ia to steady the
rising fabric with delicate touch and iron
nerve. She 10 to occupy, TO administer
TO guide, TO nurse the new independence
and autonomies, and TO protect them alike
from their own wiliulness and from In
trusiye interference. Some such care
they will require at frat, and they will
never cease 70 require 1t II they want
RuGsia at their elbow to-day, they will
want her not less fifty yeara hence. While
she acts, she will grow; while they suffer
they will decay
That these objections have solid foun'
dation 10 fact canno. be disputed. The San
stsfano treaty does place "eyery part Of
the Turkish empire on the side to roll
down into the open lap Of Russia" 1t does
buildaa house Of cards" which can only
bepreyented from falling by the constant
vigilance Of Russia. Il does establish a
state Of things which, at some future day,
may bear so heavily upon the interests oil
other European powers as to provoke q
general continental war. And as England
has more interests In that quarter than
any other European power, she is quite
naturally determined IN her opposition,
But Russia can reply to the Times, as she
has already TO Lord Salisbury, "What
have you to propose instead Of the treaty
The Eastern question has been under
discussion for more than hundred years
Il has been settled over and over again
aud over and over asain the settlement
has fallen through. Now at the end Of I
costly war, which I have fought alone,
have made q settlement which suits nj
and ought to suit you. lam, however
willing 70 exchange 1t for a better on'
whenever better one Is presented. 1
you have II, offer 1t. Ifyou have not
Why end fault with my plantn And thil
is aiInaNstsblS logic.