Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-11
DESTINY.

The Berlin dispatches that are furnished
by the Associated Press for Sunday reading
are invariably more warlike than those
news which sift through the Press dis.
patches during the week from Berlin, Vienna
and other points. From the standpoint of
the correspondent who prepares these dis
patches. the apparent truce between the
sovereigns of Russia and Austria is n hoi-
low sham that deceives nobody in any of
the countries interested. It is a mere ruse
to gain time-a ~postponement OF the evil
day. According to him, Russia is as deeply
set as ever upon obtaining what she regards
as her rights under the stipulations OF the
treaty Of Berlin, namely the subsection OF
Bulgaria to a Russian province by recog-
nizing Russian influence there as supreme.
Austria, however, has obtained an advant-
age in the elevation OF Ferdinand to the
Bulgarian throne, and, backed by the
triple alliance, she is naturally indisposed
to recede. She is equally determined
to preserve the present condition OF af-
fairs. Russia has only temporarily aban-
doned her bulldozing policy for an attempt
to gain by diplomacy what she could not
accomplish by threats. The estimate OF
the Russian force on the Polish and Bessa.
rabian frontiers is given at 1885, 600 men,
the estimated strength OF the Russian
army. ''Everything," says the CORE
spondent, "points to the conclusion that
the Gar means to enforce his terms, il not
by diplomacy, by war;" 1t is not the Car
who wants war, but the Old Muscovite
party in Russia who are impetuous and |
impatient OF restraint. The Car himself |
belonged in sympathy to this element in
before he came to the throne, |
and the hopes of that party rose
as they saw Germanic favorites OF
.lexander's reign displaced and given
the cold shoulder. German influence
at the Russian Court fell to zero and the
a~ntipathy between the Russians and
Germans has since been greatly intensi-
fed. But the Gar has modified his views
since he came to the throne. He is not so
ambitious for war as the party he sym.
with is. He sees what it involves
more clearly than they do and the awful re-
responsibility it involves. 1t means
The involvement OF the whole
If Europe in conflict once it is
begun. Yet he cannot ignore the traditions
If Russian policy, believed to have been
mapped out by Peter the Great himself and,
With all their ~vagaries, steadily borne in
Jew by his descendants. That policy in
!udes as it's cardinal feature the establish.
nent OF the seat of Russian Empire at By
antium. The Cars are the temporalhead
4 the Greek Church whose seat is at Con-
tantinople where it reigned in the splendor
I the Eastern Empire until drowned in the I
ide OF Turkish invasion. That is the des- .
to which Russia with doggeG de.
erinination holds through all reverses.
he has steadily progressed eastward along .
he border OF the Black Sea. The enamel I
OF the Ro%umanians, Bulgarians and !
from Turkish vassalage and rails :
lg them to a measure of independence was !
he last accomplishment in the march to 1
OnStantinOple. But Russian influence =,
as to be supreme in the pr%incipalities. s
it is not. Austria has checkmated her
Bulgaria. According to Russian tradi- :
or and precedent, Austria ought to give t
ay to destiny. With Che backing she has, c
he is not disposed to. Russia, however. i
ill never defect from the purpose she 4
eeps steadily in view. Many resources '
remain to be tried before wal is resorted =
}. The Berlin correspondent may be JUS b
fed by events. War may be precipitated il
y spring, but if a way can be found by r
ne Gar to avoid it without increasing his =
wn chances OF assassination that will be :
re course pursued. 3