Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-25
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
Great Br.ta'n's Present Distress and Ru.
initiation Well Earned.

against. the Porte is jealousy of Grea
| Britain, probably stimulated, as VI
| pointed out the other day, by her oc
cupation of Egypt. Russia appears
more than any other power to be al
obstacle to any sort of union, but Ger
many is not far behind. Her reluctance
to move is probably tradition of Bis
| marcks policy in 1877, when he said h,
was not willing to risk a single Pc
! meranian grenadier on behalf of tn,
| Bulgarians. The whole situation is 81
| clearly consequence of past British
| policy that it might almost form the
| subject of course of college lectures
| For so years. in fact. one might almost
| say ever since the battle of Waterloo
| Russia has been treated as the one
historic enemy of Great Britain. She
/ took the place of France, almost i'm.
| mediately after the peace of 1919 as
| the power whom true born Rritons
were bound to hate and suspect. and
down to the Crimean war and the In.
| dian mutiny, the British press teemed
| with exposures of her designs or
! British India.
| Men like Sir Henry Rawlinson made
| a speciality of this subject, and hun
! vi Gus u maps SIloNtd tIlc way III
| which she was to pass the mountains
! and rouse the Hincus. AS she ad-
| vanced in the East, the alarm gradual
! ~ grew greater. and reached its maxi
| mum after her subjugation of the
| Central Asian principalitieS. This sub
| iugation was really a very marked
gain for British India, for it is always
| a gain for any community to hav,
| civilized instead of barbarous neigh
bors. But. strange to say, so far waS
the British public from taking thii
view, that almost ever since 1920 TIL,
, time and money which should, ont
would think, have been spent i'll max
ing friends with Russia, and seeing
that if she ever did become neighbol
, she should be good one, have spent il
bullying or cajoling Afghanistan so al
to make her hostile to Russia. and thus
interpose what is called buffer be
tween the two great powers. The
Afghan war of 1892 was undoubtedly
undertaken for this purpose, and st
was the still more discreditable on,
set on foot by Beaconsfield and Sails
bury in 1878. The Crimean war was, il
like manner. fought to make Turkey :;
buiitI All idit, iliI his iiic SiFdttj
part Of this century nearly all the arts
of war and peace have been employed
to make and keep Russia an enemy O.
England, and her immense services t,
civilization in extending her frontier t,
the east have been constantly held u
to odium as advances toward India fol
the purpose of invasion and conquest
an idea the preposterousness of whicl
is only now beginning to be family
recognized.
We are now witnessing one of th
results of half century of CAREFUL.
cultivated hatred and distrust. Tho
proposal of the late Emperor Nicholas
in 1852, to treat Turkey as "a sicf
man." and take charge of his effects By
agreement with England, one of tht
sanest state papers of this century
would, as we now see, have been a.
incalcula BILE benefit to mankind. !
was peremptorily rejected. and treate,
as proof of Nicholas depraVity. anC
an alliance against him was promptly
entered into with one of the paltres
Of adventures. a hundred THOUSAND
/, lives were sacrificed in the Crimeal
war. a thousand million dollars spen
man despotism called the Porte.
In twenty years not a vestige of it
results remained, and the Porte hat
gone steadily down hill in the interval
once more. on 1873. England armed {.
save Turkey and Lord Salisbury brought
back from Berlin a bundle of lies ant
receptions as to what he and Disraei
had done to secure reform in Turkey
He has confessed within a year tina
, the whole thing was an elaborate delu
sion; that not only have no reform
been made in Turkey. but that thu
Sultan may massacre all Christian sub
jects for anything Great Britain car
do to prevent him.
Is it wonderful that after this Russia
refuses to join England in disciplnins
her former protege? She can well say.
Forty years ago l saw what Turkes
was as well as you now see it. | asked
you in friendly spirit to join me peace
ably in removing this terrible stail
on our civilization, against which
Europe had vainly fought for -four
centuries. You refused me with vitu.
peration, made war on me, destroyed
my feet and arsenals, and removed me
years ago the Sultan began nassacrins
again. You discovered the horrors il
Bulgaria, but you did nothing to stol
them but write newspaper articles.
interfered. | fought the Turk anC
brought him to his knees and my bugle.
We're heard in his palace. You again
interfered, not to fight him, but to fight
me. You brought troops from India
and allowed your Jewish adventurer It
fill the air with blatherskite about bot
me. and Turkey. You are now aroused
by his nlassacres, and want me to hell
you to stop them. | shall not do so.
have had enough Of your cooperation
You have posed for half "a century az
the great friend of the Turkish Chris
tians. Now work out the problem your
selves"
If the Car uses this language When
lie is III England no one will venture to
say that facts do not justify him. To
ask him to help now to make Turkey
humane. and establish peace within its
borders, requires more assurance than
any British diplomatist has shown
\, within the present century. We must
only hope that personal intercourse
with the Queen and with British states
men and Christians may help to soften