The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13

Sultan, under pressure from St. Peters
| burg, had conceded to Russia free passage
| to its warships through the Dardanelles.
1t was added with suspicious exactltrde
that Russia had been backed up in this re-
quest by France. 1t would be Impossible
| TO exaggerate the Importance of such an ar
rangement, if it were really brought about.
With the Dardanelles in free waterway,
Russian fleet could sweep down on Con-
stan tinople and rush through the Suez
canal. OF course, Russia urgently desires
such emancipation. She nearly secured 1t
sixty years ago. and seemed finally to lose
it as the only tangible result Of the Crimean
war That fresh negotiations on the sub
iect have been in progress is likely enough,
and it is even possible, though not probable,
that the inscrutable Turk might for some
immediate advantage be induced to place
the key of his empire at the disposal OF
Russia. Happily, Turker is not the arbiter
of the situation. England, Italy, Austria
and, in a remoter degree, Germany would
have something to say on the subject-con-
siderations which enable US 20 dismiss the
rumor as scarcely worth the attention it
| has absorbed here and on the continent at
the dull season.
MORE LIGHT on THE SUBJECT.
1t is the expressed conviction in official
circles in Berlin that Lord Salisbury, rely
! ing upon the general ultimate support of
the Dreibund Ministers, will accept the ad-
vice proffered him and await the outcome
of events.
A dispatch to the New York Herald from
Paris throws further light on the general
subject. The correspondent says that the
French interest in the affair is conferred on
its bearing on the question of the evacua--
ton ri Egypt.
The newspapers of Paris refer at length
! to the report circulating in official circles,
the substance of which is that the first act
OF the new Turkish cabinet will be to bring
| forward the question of the evacuation of
Egypt oy the troops of Great Britain. 1t
is also rumored in the same circles that the
Porte will at the same time, address cir
cular to the powers, announcing that 1T does
not intend to modify the treaties affecting
the passage, by foreign warships, of the
straits of the Dardanelles.
WAR AND WHEAT.
But. as the New York SUMS correspond
emit bluntly points out, this is particularly
bad season to talk of war. England, as
we'll as the continental nations, is thor
oughly worried over the supply of food.
Each days figuring, he says, now increass
the shortage of food which Europe sees
staring it in the face. Roughly speaking,
the importing nations Of the earth need
SOC, 600, 600 bushels of wheat and the ex-
} porting nations have surplus of only 40
000, 900 to meet this demand. This Is, in
deed, roseate statement of the case, be-
! cause 1t is based on last years consump-
ton. This year, both rye and potatoes are
grave failures, which throw big added
burden on the worlds wheat supply. To
say nothing of Russia, there will be addi-
tional wheat consumption in Germany of
some 2, 100000 bushels, from the mere fact
OF The shifting OF army rations from brown
to white bread.
All these figures, which the European
papers gloomily turn over in their columns
,,only to make them, like snowballs, grow
bigger, mean the payment of whole ship
loads of cash to America. 1t is like worm
wood to the taste, this thought that, in ad
dition TO all the vast and varying burdens
of standing armies and navies to keep the
peace here, sum equal to the cost of a
campaign must be paid over to America to
keep alive at all.
i RAIN RUINS THE REMNANT CROPS.
"Toward the middle of the week II
, seemed probable that the long spell of bad
weather that has played havoc with the
: crops was broken, and that something
} might be saved out of the wreck, but the
burst of fine weather was only temporary
: Once more the rain descends, the floods
have come, and, beating on the fields white
4 for the harvest, quench the last spark OF
is that disaster has followed fast on Whe,
promised to be an unusually fine harvest
There was not only bountiful crop, but
owing to the failure of the harvest on the
continent, prices rose and the British farm
er began to mediate serenely on the pros
1 pect of six shillings bushel for sound
. wheat. But that dream is over now, anC
t the only question is whether 1t will be
worth while, or even possible, to harvest
< the beaten down product of the flooded
fields. The grain already cut is sprouting
A few more days such as we have lately
had would render the crops worthless fol
bread making purposes. 1t is not only the
rain but the wind, that has completed ths
3 ruin of the farmers in Kent. Hops nigh
: have stood up against the rain, continuou.
as 1T was; but they have been ruthlessly
: beaten down by the prevalent storms, ani
whole gardens, which short time age
promised a fair return, are to- day hope
: lessly battered Nor has fruit culture es
capped the scourge, apples, pears and plum!
j being swept off the trees. 1t is bitterly fe
d by British farmers that England's adver
: sity is Americas opportunity, and the re-
p ports which reach this country of magnifi
: cent harvests in the United States DO no
relieve the despair with which the British
farmer looks on his own wasted laud.n