The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-02
EUROPEAN POLITICS IN ASIA

1t Is not generally understood that
the great Mohammedan powers are
not Turkey or Persia for they merely
exist by the sufferance of Europe, but
are Britain and Russia, the first in
India and the second in Central Asia.
and If the hegira now being agitated
by the Sultan is caused by a real
restlessness of Mohamemdan peoples
and is not one of the intrigues of
| European cabinets, inspired when
ever one or more of them seek an ex-
cuse for Turkish ACKNOWLEDGMENT. it
will require the United force of Brit
ain and Russia to retain their suprem-
acy in Asia.
But it is most likely to be a Russian
trick and the appearance of the Shah
| of Persia ON the scene adds plausi-
bility to this view Since the Russo
| Turkish war, the Shah, perceiving he
must play second fiddle to somebody,
preferred the Gear to the Sultan, es-
pecially as Russian f1ets controlled
the Caspian, a hostile army and peo-
pie enveloped her flank on the side
San Stefano, Russia retained possess
sion of the fortresses of Kars and
Arabian, which gave her the Asiatic
debouches of the Caucasus and
placed her in position to at any time
take such advantages of Turkish
weakness in the valley of the Eu-
pirates as time might develop.
Tn &c NV -
to assert that the rejoicing of the Ar
menian Christians has been accom-
plished through Russian intrigue,
aided by the secret longing of all the
Christian sects to be relieved from
the Mohammedan yoke, and by the
perception that the traditional policy
of the Muscovite empire is directed to
the extinguishment of Turkish power.
1t will be remembered that the mas
sacre of Christians in Bulgaria was
the ostensible cause of Russian In
PREVENTION in 1876, and that it re-
suited in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Euro
pean Turkey and a readjustment of
the relations Of the powers, by maxi
ing Austria and France equally inter
ested in the affairs of Turkey, along
with England and Russia. Austria &C.
quired Bosnia AMI Herzegovina,
France was permitted to acquire
Tunis, England Cyprus, while Russia
retained her conquests in Asia Minor
and Strengthened her frontier in Fu-
rope by acquiring the Dobrudscha,
and it may De concluded that lie
present Armchair uprising is but a
prelude to another grab At the estate
of the sick man by the great powers.
The only hope fjr Austrian eXren-
sion is on the side Of Turkey, while
the interests of France, through her
relations in Egypt and in North AZ
RIGA generally, will make Russian de-
signs in Asia easy provided she will
leave readjusrments i'll Europe 10 The
other powers. England is organic
ally weak owing to the worldwide ex-
tension of her interests and her re-
cessity for constant defense of her
vast but loosely bound empire
The expansion of the theatre % war
in the. far Orient, now seemingly evil
dent in the settled belligerenoy Of
Japan and Russia with France and
perhaps as Germany as allies, is con-
nected with the events in Turkey and
Eastern Europe in ways that portend
either to the long expected European
conflagrs ton or a pre-arranged agree
ment among the European powers on
a general scheme of spoliation, in
which England, seemingly nsenaced
by Russian and Frenchl ainbiticns,
might be compelled to JPN n order
to protect her Indian Empire in the
event of religious uprising. among
the Mohammedan peoples.
In default of this event she win prob