The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
1gbNDs OF PEACE.
lkEEP EUROPEAN Gov
HNiN Vrs sUBsERVIENT.

/ 1gfvnR the last wv - $1,000
An' ran inbroglio the telegraphic
esA'f nave kept people on this side
spiif III, SO abundantly informed
4ha oninions and intentions of
go and principal statesmen OF Flu
le7 .~isreIv 10 mystify persons OF
'pef ,-.auigance-since each fresh ais
'e1 .susbed has conflicted in the most
manner with those that have pre-
b ~ onnaared-yet, for some reason or
s .bo American people have been
r. ,o,,nIete ignorance concerning the
- .hose whose opinions are of i'm
sanlv greater Importance in the
& crisis. namely, the so-called
eseh. ~ FINANCE in London, Paris,
rlhCes Vienna. 1t is they who, Tar
rnA a. monarch or premier, control
ore zion of the moment, ana VINO
heir hands the keys of the temple
aaiIona. The question as 10 Wnether
vat gates of the latter are 10 re-
in men or shut is determined no lons ~
III Vl,snrice of an emperor, nor by the
If prime minister, but by those
il'N 5ornfnate the money market.
~ uo' ore times when the interests of
le'o -ontrv of what is known as La
,7se 9panGue" would be advanced by an
ao' ~, of war, as affording an oppor-
81 profitable investment in neu-
my l'sso,,ntries. 1t was this that induced
d e., sanction the conflict between
enaon5 Germany in 1870 and between
az, and Russia seven years later. Just
az, present moment, however, a war
,i5 5istlrb their calculations and mar
Oli N,soess of a number of undertakings
Nh thev have in hand, and the result
H. thew are determined to preserve
aooa of Europe at all costs, no mat
aa,bether il is Turkey or Greece that
~ n he coerced in order to attain this
ID And this is why the world in the
~ ten DAYS has been called upon to wit
sss the astounding and otherwise mex
a scobIe sDectacle of the warshipS of the
"a ,sat movers of Europe being used to
"a -bord the unfortunate Christian in
aMtants OF Crete when endeaVoflng 10
s fond their families and their homes from
& .1ssacre outrage and destruction by the
n arbarOus Turks.
4 The shells hurled by the allied fleet at
4 10 Cretans and at their Grecian sympa-
\ ,i,srs were fired in defiance not only
nublic olinion of the entire civilized
4 orid-popuar sympathy on both sides of
. Atlanti: being all with the Cretans
nj the Groks-but likewise in direct op-
asition to he inclinations of the various
signing HOSES of Europe. The empress
,ofber of Russia is the favorite sister of
ing Geor,e of Greece, and as soon as
he heard # the dispatch of the Hellenic
avail SQUADRON to Crete she sent him the
shaving Geographic message: II am
N,aiting nws from thee with the most
atense ANXIETY. 1 tremble at the idea
{ our Gerge being down there. l en-
race you I'll with all my heart
The Geoge to whom mention is made
this teeTam is that prince who saved
ne presen car from certain death in
Apan tire years ago, in spite of which
russian guns have now been turned upon
lin. Yet Emperor Nicholas is devoted to
dis cousin. and IS his most intimate friend
besides being man who, unlike the ma
iority of princes never forgets a service
rendered. The Arincess of Wales is an
other sister of King George, while be-
tween the latter and the heir apparent to
the English thrdhe the closest friendship
Exists.
Moreover, the crown prince of Greece,
married to one bf Queen Victoria's most
cherished grandlaughters, is a particular
iavorite of her'British majesty, and 1t is
well known that her sympathies, as well
Is those of thh Prince and Princess of
Wales, are all with King George and
his family in the present crisis. This did
not. however. prevent England's magnifi-
cent ironclads from bombarding Greeks
and Cretans dixie, from training her guns
on ships and towns over which the Greek
flag was waving, and from taking lead
ing part in coercing the plucky little king
dom of the Hellenes.
With no crpwned head in Europe does
King George stand on more intimate foot
Ing than with Francis Joseph of Austria.
Not a year passes that the king does not
make several long stays at Vienna, and
The two monarchs call each other thou"
which in Germany is done only by men
Who have few secrets from one another,
md who are bound together by ties of
,osest friendship Yet the navy of Aus
Tas chValrous kaiser joined that OF
queen Victoria and of Emperor Nicholas
n endeavoring to reduce Greece to sub
ection, and received the cooperation of
he fleet of France-a nation which, in
he early part of the present century,
ave expression to it's enthusiastic adj
1iration for Greece by actually sending
n army of 5000 men, under command OF
larsha AIaison, TO help her in her war
Independence against the Turks.
This shows how much the influence OF
lmily ties among the reigning houses of
Europe has been overrated by those who
rofess TO see therein an assurance of in
irrational amity and alliance The
bonds Of peace concerning which SO
luch was written at the time of the visit
the car and czarina to their, grand
lother at Balmoral last summer are not
0FnnpGoI of hut
scrip, and are of a more sordid and
eeuniary character. If the guns of the
lied fleet have fired upon the Greek flag,
was at the instance of the great finan-
ers of Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna.
hese gentry have nothing to gain, but
the contrary, vast amount to lose
a tull-Aedged war just at present be-
Neen Turkey and Greece. Almost the
mole of the enormous national debt OF
ne ottoman empire, which, by dint OF
diversion and reorganization, has been
lme"hat reduced from its original figure
! $1,000 m000O is held in France and in
ngland, mainly by the Rothschilds, their
ssoeIatcs and their clients. They pur-
ldsed the bonds for a mere song at the
me when Turkey first defaulted, and
nee then they have been gradually in
-easing in value, thanks to the marked
Improvement in the finances of the sub
me porte effected by the international
1mmission of the foreign debt. organized
I Constantinople TO look after the inter
SIS Of the bondholders. Any war in
.hlcn Turkey were TO become involved
L The present moment would destroy ali
le good already achieved in this direc-
on throw back the porte into the mon
airy morass from which she is Just
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