Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-01

hardly fail 10 be satisfied with the
partition, even though she might be asked TO
surrender to Italy part Of the Dalmatian
sea coast, throughout which, as IL is well
known, dialect OF the Italian language is
spoken. II is not to be supposed that Turkey
would submit without the most vehement re-
monstrance to the loss Of all the European
dominions assured to her by the Berlin con
gress, except petty tract adjoining Con-
stantnople But a threat of armed resist
ance could not be carried out, owing to the
utter exhaustion Of the porte's financial re
sources. AT this time the sultan cannot place
in the field an army organized and equipped
in the costly modern fashion, much less sus
tain the burdens of a protracted defensive
war. He is in arrears for the pecuniary in
demnity due to Russia under the Berlin
treaty, and he can have no hope of liquidat-
ing that Indebtedness except by sacrifice
of territory. If he could escape the necessity
of further cessions in Armenia, where his
frontier is already insecure, II might be wise
TO acquiesce in the reconstruction of Bulgaria
on the lines laid down at San Stefano No
| diplomatic obstruction on the part of the sui
tan would prove of much avail even for de-
lay, provided England and Austria should
inc Ol Tue Duhe VI SuulDel-
| land for the projected kingdom
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The and-hungry nations of the earth seem
| to have abandoned Asiatc conquests III Rus
sia and Great Britain, and two have turned
| their attention to the seizure of such parts of
| Africa as may suit their fancy and opportun-
| itv France, Italy, Germany and Great Brit
| ain are all busying themselves with laying
| tho f,n nt nf A fri, fnln rbo nh
| iugation of Africa to the uses of the civilized
| races of the world is not so much a question
| of prowcss in a contest with the present pop.
| ulation of that dark continent as Il question
| of ability to contend against natural obsta-
cles. Africa is protected by its desertwastes,
its malarial jungles and its equatorial heats.
1t is doubtful whether the conquering races
of this day and generation will be any better
| able to make a permanent stand in Africa
| than were the great nations of antiquity who
| successfully pushed their victorious arms
| southwark from the Mediterranean only to
be pushed back again by the repeling forces
| Of nature.
| The young emperor of China amuses him
| self now and then by whskng around his
| palace grounds IN Pckin on a miniture rail
| road, and enjoys monopoly of the only rail
| road now running in his dOminions. The
| French government has just made a very
handsome present to Ii Hung Chang in the
| shape of a complete railroad train, but if the
| Chinese statesman makes the present avail
| able he will have to grade roadbed and
! buy some rails, and thus, as France slyly
| hopes, break the ice for the introduction of
| railroads. The revered ancestors of these
| Orientals are q great obstacle in the way of
| railroads. The Chinese say railroads cannot
| dodge all over the country to avoid the null
titudinous graveyards, and as for having
this western invention plough through the
| last resting places of their honored sires,
that is entirely out of the question. But in
spite of the dead past an era of railroad max
ing will dawn in China one of these days.
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It is not in Kaiser Wilhelm's nature to
carry out the plans for bettering the con-
dition of Alsace and Lorraine which were so
admirably outlined in letter of his fathers
published upward of month ago. The
bludgeon is to be shaken over the heads of
the unfortunate, French inhabitants of the
imperial province. 1t seems like reading some
history of Poland in her extreme misery to
find that the STUDY of the French language in
public and private schools is to be suppressed,
and that the probable intention of the Ger
man government is to deprive the large land
holders of French extraction of their estates,
cutting them up into small holdings for the
occupation of thoroughly Teutonic settlers.
The emperor and Bismarck should be sternly
reminded that compulsory loyalty has very
rarely been striking success.
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! Some of the very districts in Africa that
once furnished cargoes for Amer lean slave
vessels, are now the hunting grounds Of Arab
slavers. Hundreds of people whose ancestors
were also the fathers of many of our colored
citizens are now dragged away in chains, not
to the coast, but to the slave markets of Mo-
rocco and the Mohammedan states in the Sou
dan. We refer particularly to the country
north of Yoruba, now happily coming under
French influence, and to the regions between
the Cameroons and Adamana, once fruitful
source of supply for the export slave trade,
and only recently invaded by the Arab. The
question whether the Arab or the white man
is to rule Africa seems likely soon to force
itself upon the worlds attention. Intelligent
colored men in this country must watch with
peculiar interest the progress of the eloquent
Cardinal Lavigerie, who, by the express de-
sire of the pope is now preaching crusade
for the absolute suppression of the traffic.
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Among the many things Algeria is doing
to make herself attractive to tourists is the
eXhuming of some of her ancient cities. The
marvels of Pompei are said to be nearly
equalled by the city that has just been eX-
humed at Timga, with its streets, shops,
forum, triumphal arches and fiagstones worn
by cart wheels. At Cherchell, on the coast,
west of the city OF Algiers, the luxurious
baths of the ancient city of C1sarea have re-
Gently been brought to light. Then Algiers
has completed her railroad to Biskra, almost
on the edge of Sahara, and is to extend it to
the five little oases that have been created by
irrigation along the Wady Rir, where 9OOC
palm trees are now fourishing region
that few years ago was verdureless The
triumphant progress of railroad building is
everywhere opening new routes for tourists
What Gould Said.