The record-union., 1897-03-21

POWER with Russia III the Ion COSSdch
country, but the wild men of Russia
there they were little more then-fell
upon the scheme to connect the Black
and Caspian Seas by canal through
marriage OF the Don and the Volga,
and the Turks went backward out of
the country well whipped.
Then came a series of reverses, in the
midst of which, in 1916, Crete was
taken. and in 1642 Austria was again
invaded, and siege laid for the second
time to Vienna. But Sobieski and the
Duke of Lorraine fell upon the merci-
less Turks and smote them with the
edge of the sword until their blood fair
~ Redeemed the waters of Austria and
their armies were scattered, broken and
put to flight.
In 1856 they were driven from Hun
gary. Next they fell out with Russia
because of the refusal to surrender the
King of Sweden. Peter the Great in
vited them to combat and got the worst
of it, but it was hollow victory for the
Turks after ALL and to this day Russians
have not forgiven their enemy for it.
In 1876 Austria and Russia proposed
to partition Turkey but failed, receiving
lesson in arms from Turkey that was
not expected and that served to keep
the two Powers in retirement for some
time, and until Russia seized the Crimea,
ignoring her treaties and taking possess
ion of many provinces clear down to the
waters of the Caspian. In 1888 Austria
and Russia again attempted to parcel
out Turkey to their liking, but Austria
was souhdly thrashed Later Russian
arms under Suwarrow were successful
in Selling from Turkey Belgrade, Buch-
Arrest and Ismail, though shortly after
that the two first were restored to the
Sultan and the Dniester made the boun-
dairy between the two countries, for at
about this time Napoleon Bonaparte
was demanding the attention Of the
Gar, and peace with Turkey was pol
itic measure. But in 1912 Russian pug
nacity was again manifest, and she
pushed her boundary to the Pruth where
it is now found indicated upon the mod
ern atlas.
In 1923 Greece threw off Turkish rule
achieving a glorious independence. The
story of the Crimean war is familiar to
all readers and the failure of the Car
to extend protectorate over Wallachia
and Moldavia, as also of the treaty of
Paris that placed Turkey under the
control of the great Powers. In 1866
Moldevia and Wallachia were united to
form Rumania as an independently,
practically. The next year Servia was
taken from the Turkish cluster and
Egypt became elf-governing. though
remaining tributary to Turkish power
in a huniliating sense.
The Herzogoyinan Instruction came
in 1874 and the whole east was in arms
in an instant. In the next year the
massacres in Bulgaria occurred that SO
sadly blotched the pages of human his
tory. Then Servia and Montenegro
arose against the Sultan, and he was
stripped of effective power in those
quarters. The conference of the Pow
ers at Constantinople followed and
proach of the Car to the gates Of Con-
stantinople succeeded by the treaty of
San Stefano which gave Russia about
all she had asked for. 1t was not to
the taste of England, however, and the
Berlin Congress of the Powers was
called. which resulted in the establish
ment of the independence of Servia and
Montenegro, the turning over to Aus
trian guardianship of Bosnia, Herzego-
VIVA and Novi Bazaar, while Greece was
accorded a part of Thessaly, and Bull
garia was made autonomous, and subse-
quently united with Eastern Rumelia.
Thus was Turkey stripped, and thus
did her power decline, until less than
one-third of her old possessions which
she had taken as the robber acquires,
remained to her.
If now the present Grecian complica-
ton loses Crete for Turkey and strips
the empire of Thrace, Macedonia and
Albania, nothing will remain for the
once powerful Turk but retreat into
Asia and an effort to protect himself
there as best he may. That these
things may come to pass is not at all
improbable. Indeed, some of the closer
students of European politics confident
ly expect just that thing, and if it
comes about, right will be justified, CEN
turtles Of wrong and oppression
avenged and the cross made trium-
phant over the crescent