Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-25
PROBABLE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT
OF THE EASTERN QUESTION.

N-AN.
G.aat Britain In other words he and his err
rand to and from st. Petersburg, are going to
hc accepted by both sides as the convenient
nratext for peace The MORNING APPEALS
prophesies are going to be fully verified
There will be no war. There is no love lost,
but the rivals will not come to blows. Russia
is too Door, and England is too vulnerable.
Gladstone speaks of Russia as if there were
Eighty millions of people there Doubtless
his estimate is based on figures which are
wholly reliable. The recent experiences in
jhe art of conducting offensive operations will
prove an immense incentive to fuller per-
lection of their dormant powers by that great
and growing people. Twenty years will see
the Russians the most tremendous force seen
IN Europe since the days of the Romans. AS
20 Britain, only the augmenting capacity for
self government will hold her dependencies
uuo to the parent government. Either of
'heso, Australia, Canada or India, could now,
such were the popular choice, become al
.upst Immediately independent Of the Imperial
'ulr. If ever any nation needed to cultivate
thc conditions and policies of peace and to
maintain amicable relations with the other
great powers England SO needs TO do
There are i'll the Nineteenth Century for
March two remarkable papers on "The Sltua-
ton. The subject discussed is the attitude
of England and Russia upon this vexatious
and complicated Eastern Question. From
one of these articles, written by Mons. John
Lcmoinne, we extract the following very sgni-
Hcaut references to some events III the recent
history of Europe:
In the first days of March 1871, when
France, after desperate and hopeless strug-
lie, looked around her, and, seeing that she
was alone, like the stag at bay, submitted to
tate, the new German Emperor telegraphed
~ tic Gar of Russia the following words:
>oer will Prussia forget that owes it YOU hat the
aar has not taken the greatest dimensions Nh God Mess
.nu f'rit' Your grateful friend ''r life, "iLIgLN.
T., which the Gar replied
r3 haIpyat having been adj u prove !? You my sym
ly, devoted friend. May the friendship which ties
together secure the happiness and Gor! oi both coun
Tayse simple words were the philosophy of
'hc lranco-G German war. as they are now OF
che Eastern wal The events of 1873 are,
through an unbrokcn chain, the consequence
of tie events Of 1870; it is history repeated,
ur even the same chapter. From the begin
ny uf the present war it was plain that Ger
many was returning to Russia what Russia
had dome for Prussia eight Years ago. When
that invalid, imputent, bewildered man, whom
! viii not attack i'll foreign paper, ran head
long into war for which he had prepared
nothing, Prussia had secured more than the
neutrality of Russia She had virtually and
vilcc; tally secured her alliance and her help,
for Russia had undertaken to maintain and to
enforce the neutrality of Europe, especially of
Austria and Italy. She kept her word, and
France was left alone. When the patriotic old
man, the first citizen of France, who had
hrayc,v protested against that guilty and in
sane w;r-when NJ. Theirs went all over Eu
rope t. feel the pulse OF governments, our fate
was already sealed Neither Austria nor It.
ally cut,ld move; their hands were tied by the
pressure Of Russia, the decided supporter of
Prussia. No wonder then that the brand-new
Emperor of the Germans returned thanks,
after Providence, TO his faithful ally and
nephew; no wonder also that on the present
momcutous occasion Germany said to Russia:
What YOU did for me, | shall do for you. Go
nu, 90 ahead; do your business as | did mine;
fulfil your history as | did mine. | will be
master nf the camp and enforce neutrality
everywhere And SO she has done.
The mind Of the representative English
nublicj,t is always charged with the great inn
portance of Germany as factor in this great
problem. Edward Dicey, discussing Eng
land Policy at the Congress, (Which presup
poses that she will take part in such an inter
national asscmblagc), says:
see, however little likelihood of the Con-
,Iuss il it meets, restricting itself to the sim
l1ie consideration Of the Treaty of San StefanO |
What concerns the European Powers now is |
not SO much the fate Of Turkey as that Of her !
OUTLYING dominiuns, and in one form or other !
the question of partition will infallibly be rails
ed There is strong reason to believe that the |
initiative III this matter will be taken by Ger
many. The Government of Berlin has lost no |
opportunity of manifesting its preference for
permanent, as opposed to a provisional, settle
ncnt Of the Eastern Question; and the Con
Iress Will, as | believe, be compelled to deal
Hth the issue--What is to be done with the
provinces and dependencies of the Porte,
surprising peace to be concluded Oh the basis
agreed upon at San Stefano! Thus the logic
II facts forces upon us the necessity, whether
we like 1t or not, of considering once more
the question of Egypt.
As to the situation as at present it stands
under the emolliont manipulations done in
thc name of Schouvalof, we find them. IN the
press dispatches, set forth as follows
Londou, May "a The Standard discussing
the Salisbury Schouvaloff interview, saws it is