Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10
'' Dizzy.''

DlZZy|
Benjamin Disraeli, by birth an English
man, b. blood Jew. novelist, orator,
commoner and peer, who used to be called
"Dizzy,"i is now an earl, will be duke,
and may be the husband Of the queen, has
carried staid old England out on a course
that has mighty possibilities of power and
glory mixed with corresponding dangers.
He has dazzled all Europe with the glitter
of his latest achievement.
Monday it came out that England and
Turkey formed in June a treaty that, as it
does not relate to matters settled by the
treaty of Paris. they claim the Berlin con-
gress has nothing to do with it. This
treaty gives England the island of Cyprus,
she in return promising to protect against
all Others Asiatc Turkey, She will retain
Cyprus as long as Russia does Arabian,
Kars and Batum which are to go to the
Gar by consent of the Berlin congress.
Sir Garnet Wolseley with seven thousand
Indian troops is already on his way to
take possession of Cyprus.
This island, in the eastern Mediterrane-
an about sixty miles from the Asiatic coast
is 145 miles long and, ut its widest, sixty
miles broad. 1t of course gives England
increased power in the great inland sea
and enables her to concentrate larger forces
where they may defend her interests on
the Suez isthmus and her newly projected
railway to India down the valley of the
Euphrates. Her protectorate over Asia
Minor makes her guardian of the Holy
Land and if she exercises her rights will
cause reforms through western Asia.
In return she will be burdened with res
possibility for the good government of her
newly taken charge and will have to fight
Russia or whatever other power shall en-.
deavor to interfere with the Sultan's
Asiatic territory. The successful carrying
out of Earl Beaconsfeld's project will
make the Sultan Il ward of the Britons
will open up new means of communica-
ton with the Indian empire and altogether
form an advance in national importance
only equalled by Prussa's late wonderful
success.
But behind all this is the question of
England's power in arms to carry out the
brilliant scheme. And it is just here that
Dsraeli's daring comes to the front. When
war with Russia was threatened, violating
all traditions of the past, he called from
India thousands of native troops, who |
came with apparent enthusiasm ready to
enter the battle fields of Europe. This
new departure has been the subject of
criticism in the Berlin congress, the Rus.
SLAMS asking the other powers to inquire
whether this is not new danger menacing
all that is known as civilization.
The summoning of Asatic hordes to fight |
in Europe with modern weapons is an idea
worthy of the fertile brain of the, premier of
England and it is very possible that in this
source of power lies the possible might Of
England in European politics for the next
hundred years. The mighty population Of
Russia dwarfs before the swarms of hu-
manity that under English rule people the
plains of India. And these barbarians,
countless in number. are brave and capable |
of good training in arms. Their threaten
ea use by England is an unlocked for cloud
with unknown lightnings appearing to
the statesmen of continental Europe.
After all though Beaconsfeld will be
denounced by the old stagers an d his plans
be cursed as foolish and dangerous it must
be confessed that he has with bold front
asserted England's right. He said to Bis
marck 4" / did not come here to yield ~
and so far his saying has been proven true
A few years and even months ago it
seemed that England was losing her equal
hold with the other great European ma
tions. Her isolated position, and her com.
paratively small population seemed to
make her forced to take a submissive atti
tude when Germany or Russia should ut
tempt to dictate. Beaconsield has not
only summoned spirits from the Vastly
deep but they appear to have come at his
command. And their coming, at present,
restores to England her place as power
that it is dangerous for even the strongest
to NEEDLE with. The British lion is a lion
after all and just now at his side steps the
Bengal tgar.