The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-26

L
on the ACCESSIBILITY of the annexing
the Akhal Tekke Oasis it is trans
lated from General Grodekof's in
tercsting Russian work on the Turk
oman Wars. Nj. Zinovieff was
writing in 1882.
Zone of the reasons prompting
us to move eastwards of the Cas-
plan is the acknowledged necessity
of making an impression on Eng
land, and preventing the execution
of her plans against us in Central
Asia. This consideration led to the
Khodjakala expedition of 1873, and
it also convinced us that the Tekkes
must inevitably bc broken up. 1t
is impossible TO guarantee that all
this will not have to be repeated
over again, but the experience of
the present expedition, and the
difficulties which we have had to
overcome, prove sufficiently that no
diversion against England can be
attended with success in Central
Asia so long as independent Tekke
tribes continue to lie on our road.
The English have seen this perfectly,
and it is to this that we must ascribe
the endeavors of their agents to mar
the success of our expedition.
Voluntarily to renounce the dearly
purchased results of this expedition
would be all the more rash, as the
question, so important for Central
Asia, of the future of Afghanistan,
still remains undecided. -. There is
not the slightest reason to believe
that Afghanistan will speedily
emerge from her present gloomy
condition. On the contrary, it is
probable that the present vagueness
and excitement will long hover
about that country. Such state of
affairs will call forth from Eng
land continual experiments and in
reference in the internal affairs Of
the country; interference of a
character that frequently ends, in
Central Asiatic countries, in annexa-
ton. Should the Gladstone Cab
met revolt against such measures,
the Conservatives, in the event
of their return to power, would
probably have no difficulty in find
ing sufficient excuses for carrying
out their political programme of ex-
tending the limits of English domin-
ion and influence in Central Asia to
their utmost extent, to the great
disadvantage of Russia. Connected
by good roads with our base at the
Caspian, our outposts at Khorassan
would doubtless cause the English
to moderate their ambitious aims, as
all roads to the East and the South
east would then be open to u.s." 1t
is needless to point out how faith
fully the Russian Government has
been following M. Zinovieff's adj
vice.
Space will not permit us to show
how intimately connected with the
expansion of Russia and the beauti-
full dreams of the Panslavist are tie
more prosaic aspirations of the Rus
sian manufacturer, who, wrapped in
the swaddling clothes of protection,
is cutting his economic teeth, and is
anxiously looking out for something
to bite. kilograms and paragraphs
appearing from time to time in the
Russian papers, and even in The
Times, seem to show that the Rus
sian manufacturer is not losing his
opportunities, and is rapidly estab-
fishing relations with Merry, which
may ere long be extended to Herat.
The manufacturing and industrial
condition of Russia is very care
fully and well treated in most able
work by Mr.. Besobrasof, entitled
Etuaes sur pEtat ecOmomique de
la Russie.
Philosophers, orators, deploma-
fists, generals, merchants, are all
waiting for the expansion of Slavonic
civilization, and for the pronuncia-
ton. of tha} final word of universal
harmony which shall unite all man
kind in one common brotherhood
under the benign and beneficial rule
of the Tsar of all the Russias.
Russian newspapers TEEN with
articles in this strain, the M0skoush,iG
Veaonaosti leading the van; but
these articles are not supposed to
merit the attention of the English
public, because they are dreamy,
and not the expression of serious
political opinion. Dreams are gen
orally at the basis of all the political
ideas of nations, and consequently
they should not be ridiculed, but
attentively listened to, and criticised
in the light of the genius and
national aspirations of the. country.