The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-20
THE GATEWAY OF INDIA.
PENJDEH ATTAINED, HERAr NEXT
The Zone survey-A Very Proper Casus
BelIi-England Must Fight or Ae-
cept the Craven's Brand
lntelligently Stated.

tloni ana a tuu consideration of them in
likely to lead prediction to decidedly
belligerent result In the first place, it
is admitted on all hands that there will
be nc war it Mr.. Gladstone can nave
his way. He is constitutionallv in
clined to peace, bitterly opposed to any
alliance with ''the unspeallahle
Turk" and has consistently, so |
far as he has been able or dared. |
ever SINCE his last accession TO power. |
endeayored towithdraw English troops |
and English authority from every out |
| post IN which either had been estah- |
lished by his great predecesaor-Di
raell. The stories ofthe REIMBURSEMENT |
OF Candahar, the retreat from Aighanis. !
tan, the abandonment of control i'm |
south Africa, all these are too recent of |
occurrence and toe much matter of |
familiar history to need moro than |
bare allusion. Even The weak and |
vacilating policy that has proved SO dis |
astrous 10 British prestige in the Soudau |
points to the same conclusion-Mr !
Gladstone will NOT permit war ii he
can heip 1t. That is he argumen5 on
the side Of peace; whs. is there on the
other side?
Statesmen, no matter how great, can
not control people when once popular
passions come 10 bo excited. II is GER
ktalAi iAAtFb lll0 l1AAELAoAl ana nuEsldUB are
excited 70 fever heat, their arms strain
ing on the leash like bi4clhounds, Ca
ger Ter combat. They are tbirsting for
war. me other populations OF Europe,
10 say nothing OF those on this hemis
phers, while perhaps il would be too
much To say that they desire war, GER
tainly regard the threatened conflict
with considerable equanimity. Some
OF the European countries would gladly
llA HFnI for yQpigt1a
Italians want more prestige and some
African territory; they think both
cOulC be easily aud cheaplV obtained
by substituting their legiOns for the
British regiments now swotering in the
Nile valley and on the Res sed littoral
/ The Germans could not but ieel their
power enhanced whichever eide,
whelher Russian or British, gets
trounced. France is smHTung under
the leers OF the English press mt her III
success in handling the Chinese, and
Austria can see easily that in tho
promised coming struggle she may
have another opportunity OF carrying
n out her traditional policy, and grabbing
hsome IGore territory southeas5Wards as
= the price OF neutrality. As 30 the mino,
states Of Europe, Holland
Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and
Norway, they only live by
suiferance anyhow, and while they may
lear, they can have no influence ia con
trolling the grand politics OF che world
All these considerations point 10 wal
rs the probability. There is another
however, which, unless the British art
completely demented, would seem {,
make 1t almost certainty. Tho affair
Of Afghanistan are the key 10 the situa
ton. 1t Will be remembered that, II
consister tly following the policy which
enabled Give and Hastings TO foun,
her magnificent Indian empire
England has always played of
ore native dynasty against another, es
pOused the cause of one prince, brotLe
o. cousin 10 the destruction of tn
cher, and so gradually came yOasesse,
q the control of all. Mysore, Sciudh
he kingdoms Of the Mogul,all southern
snd central and nearly all northern In
tia have fallen under Bfitish sWa
through this audacious application O
The old Australian rule of empire iY!d
bt impera Even the so-called indC
pendent Indian chieftains to-day, thos
who attended LorG Duhoru's durbs
al RawN Pindi a week ago, mostly hol
their own against watchful wary an
IeacherOus rivals because at the SUI
por. they derive from tho British, an
and so 1t Is particularly in Afghaui
tan.
NJ Tho last Bnhsh-Afghau war wa
fought in furtherauce Of this polio,
IL The nominal struggle was betwee
Ayol0 Khan, who had acquired recOg
milton rs ameer, or Fmir, and AOdu
rahmm Khan, his cousin, who repr
sented the AnglOphilists "a has uOuptr'
The war was short aud bloody. ~
English won the strOlghuld8 OF Her,
: and Candahar, and placed tho
puppei AbdurrahmRn on tho "throne
- his ancestors" Ayouo was driven in
banishment in Persia, with, however,
goodly annual allowance IN "Britis
l goldN to help him pass the time in h
harem 40 Tehetan, Bat AyOub is Dol
turbulent aud ambitious He has
large following among the Afghan
most OF whom think him wrOuged, az
could make that following near
unanimous if his people could be- on
made to believe that the English W
not, or dare not, fight tho Russians.
is true he is, at present, a prisoner
Persian hands, but she Persisns 2
amenable 10 the same iniuenc
as the Afghans, and ouly obey tho En-
fish, while they believe them {
strongest. they wOult turn readily
the Russians if that belief were &
/ stroyed.
L The situation In that quarter of t
world, therefore, is Just this: The
II quirements of western diplomacy cou
for nothing. With the Central Asiat
as, indeed, with all orlentsls, fighti
means war. They cannot understand
condition of affairs in which battle a
war diilerentiate. The fight on {
kushk river TO the Afghan means
attack by the Russians on Afghs
istan, and they regard
after negotiations as mere ST
tleties designed to cover up an intenti
to betray or desert. There had been
grand gathering OF Anglo Indian troC
and officials; grand entertainments
their amoer and his chieftains; gra
n promises of British protection. In
M midst OF this blaze of ceremonial a
II y shower of pledges, the enemy con
insolently to the front and slaught
some hundreds of Afghan soldi
whose only ofiense was, according
komaroh's own words, obiecti
to too near an approach
an avowed enemy. Now, suppose
English fail to fight under such circu
~ stance and with such provocation2
stead of having TO fight the Russia
JN with the Afghans AZ allies, they Y
haye TO fight the Atghsns as we'll as
Persia. AyOub Khan will be releas
the ameer, and Cossack squ
her Pass. If Mr.. Gladstone cannot
all this, IL is plain that the Engl
army and people no, and that unl
Russia retires or the British cousen
acomplete back down and sacrifice
empire-nether event likely to occt
war Is unavoidable. AT least that
hn.,s ,,,uttaru NAV ha fairly rawnr1a