Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-12-06
GoLDsBoRo. r, 6, DEC, = lS't.
ENGLAND AND HER FRIENDS

ENGLAND AND HER FRIENDS
England has two friends among
the nations of the world, China
and Turkey, 1t is needless to.
say that they are friends only in
SO far as they ear be used for
her selfish ends. Just at present
they both occupy the position Of
friends in need, that is to say,
III need of help; and they do not
get # from England, whose
friendship is strictly Of the per
sonally profitable character.
China has been handsomely
drubbed by Japan. The newest
and best battleship in the Chi
nese navy, the Chen Yuen, was
destroyed in the harbor Of Wei
Hai-Wei, on Nov. IS, by q torpe-
do planted there for the injury of
the enemy. Commodore Lin, in
command of the ship, thereupon
anticipated the reproof Of his
imperial master by committing
suicide. A London dispatch Of
the 22d ult.. says that China, dis
heartened By repeated reverses
and the failure Of her every at
tempt to secure foreign media
ton, has sued directly to Japan
for peace. If this be true, Eng
land stands to lose heavily by
the triumph Of Japan and the
consequent decline of British
prestige in the East.
More bad luck to her! says
every friend OF true progress ii
that and other quarters; and the
bad luck seems 10 have come, O
all places. in Turkey, which has
at last succumbed to destiny an(
granted to Russia the privilege
Of sending her warships through
the Dardanelles into the Medi
terranean. England has 10.
years fought and bullied ans
intrigued to keep the Russian
out Of the Middle Sea. 70 aver
that end she has supported tn
..unsDeakable Turk and all hi
denominations. Now, withou
the firing of a shot or the un
sheathing of a sword, Russi
gains what She had vainl
sought through generations
and the Mediterranean is n
longer a "British lake"
All attempt is made to mini
mize the moral effect Of this COZ
cession by declaring that it ind
Gates a friendly alliance betwee
Russia and England, on the pre-
tence that the new Gar is pc
sonally well disposed toward
the latter power. Il is true tn;
the Gar is an absolute monarch
but there is something in Russ
even more absolute than IL
Gar. and that is the legacy
Peter the Great, q tradition
which Car and moujik vie
equal obedience. Russia by tn
bequest is committed to the pc
lev Of Southern extension and
open seaboard, and it would IA
i'll with any emperor who pa
for the right with the surrend
of any Russian prerogat5ve.
AS for Turkey, England h
been ready, any moment duril
the past forty years. to deliv
the UnspeakableTurk over to
enemies. when his alliance shor
prove no longer valuable. Z
Turks have been indulging thu
natural predictions Of late
massacring Christians, to t
number, it is said, of six thousa
in Armenia; aud if Engla
should be in need Of d plausil
excuse for kicking it's Mosl'
ally overheard, the tender NJ
conformist conscience can
trusted to rise to the occasion
that or any other ground.
too, with China, should it Pre-
true that the japanese are
mistakably on top. The eN
of the opium trade will be
vealed to the British consciel
in a new light, even as those
American slavery were discov
ed Immediately after Apron
tox, and we shall be much s
prised if a new Carnegie does
arise to discover that both
Russians and the Japanese
members Of the great "Ans
Saxon" family, by direct
cent from Adam, or at least fl
his son Cain.
EGTz1E.
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