The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-05
TRICKY SALISBURY.

We have in the past few weeks beer
made very familiar with the name OF
Salisbury, premier Of England. We
are on the point Of having him as al
enemy. A right royal enemy he will
prove, if our difficulties over the Mon
roe doctrine take on the grim viSage OF
actual war.
As England is the controlling mon.
archy of the world so Salisbury con.
trolls England. Its aggressive foreign
palicy has been able to survive only
| through his efforts, and the aristocracy
| Of England owes to him probably its
! preserYa tion.
Readers of the Eagle will remember
that something over a year ago Mr..
Labouchere pushed through the House
of Commons bill abolishing the House
of Lords. This was a drive, and a
fierce one, at the very foundations of
England. The House of Lords exercis-
ed its veto ON that bill. But Its veto is
only SuSpensive. 1t remained for the
people to speak. This they did, and,
what is passing strange TO every
American, they spoke against the aboli-
ton of the House of Lords.
The Tories and those in favor of the
preservation of that INDECENT, good
fOr-nothing body, We're led by Lord
Salisbury. The victory was his. 1t
was a victory gained in the teeth of de-
feat. 1t was gained by political
ShrewdneSS, in the face of probably a
sentiment adverse to Toryism. Or, in
other words, the people of England
being against the House of Lords voted
10 sustain it, by the aid of Salisbury's
tricks. Everything he did in that cam
paign Was to weaken the Liberal
forces. He brought the saloon in
fiuence to his side, no one has every
explained how. He took up the demo
cratic Mr.. Chamberlain and used him
to good purposes in defeating the demo
Gratis
But Salisbury'S greatest and most
daring political trick was International
and consequently diplomatic, for diplo-
macy appears TO be little else than
politics between nations.
In 1878 the treaty of Berlin was
signed by the great nations of Europe.
The Turk had been on a rampage. He
had murdered and maSsacred just as
he is doing now, with the consent of
the Sultan. Russia piled down on Con
StantinOple. The whole of Asia was
Russia's if she cared to take it. The
Sultan begged for mercy. The powers
met in congress at Berlin. They were
in deliberation when Salisbury worked
his great trick The powers had draft
ed treaty enforcing several reforms
from the cringing Turk. The foremost
of these reforms exacted was the eXer-
else of religious freedom in the Turkish
empire, the powers TO act as judges of
the future actions of the Sultan and
his subjects.
Three days before that congress ad-
journed England bobbed up with a
treaty. signed at ConStantinople a few
days before, between England and
Turkey, STIMULATING that if Russia ever
attempted to extend her rule over the
Turkish Asiatic provinces, England
would at once join with Turkey TO re-
pei the invasion by force. In
diplomacy this was the maSter-stroke
Of the nineteenth century. 1t secures
the autonomy Of the Turkish Empire
50 long as England remains powerful.
IL meant that Russia could not extend
her domain further into Turkish Asia.
And it is on account OF this secret
treaty, flashed upon the astounded
congress At Berlin, that the Turk today
is enabled to keep his throne when
Christendom, the world over, demands
that he be pulled down.
Ii was Salisbury trick just as the
Tory victory in 1925 was a Salisbury
trick. Now Salisbury has turned on
United States, refusing 10 arbiuate a
perfectly fair proposition. The charac-
ter OF the man il such that he would |
like to win by a diplomatic trick. In |
this he can not win by n diplomatic |
trick. If he then desires TO win 10y |
straisht-out fight he viii find America |
ready. though not armed. II he does
not want TO fight, he can soften his de- /
feat in the Venezuelan matter by 4 /
trick which. in this caSe. |
would probably be the direction Of /
British Guiana TO deal directly with |
Venezuela and TO concetIe almost every
thing.