The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-29

Amer Undoubtedly Has a
Hand In the Present Troubles.
London, Aug. 2S.-In political circles
at present there is plenty of talk about
France, India and President Kruger
each contributing a sensation through
the week. while the rise in wheat has
set loose an oratOricaI food regarding
the agriculture of England All four
topics promise abundant sequences,
both material and political.
The accomplishment Of the Franco
Russian alliance, which some Of the
conservative newspapers are inclined
to deny. expostulating that the cars
words could be applied to any friendly
nation, is however, accepted by the
majority as an undOubted fact
This is recognized deliriously in
France, sneeringly in Austria, uncom-
fOrtably in Germany. and here in Lon
don they are slowly awakening to the
underlying meaning Of the alliance, as
it is understood on the continent.
FOR THREE REASONS.
France is delightful for three rea-
sons. Reasonably or unreasOnabiy, the
alliance is accepted as f0reShadowing
the retrOcessiOn of Alsace-LOrraine,
which France holds, and which Russia
would be glad 10 assist in, as a snub 70
Germany.
Secondly. the alliance upsets Ger
many's desire to bring about united
continental action against Great
Britain.
Thirdly. the alliance largely shifts
the control Of Europe back to France
The popular opinion OF London, which
rejoices at the alliance as being entirely
fixed against Germany is well viewed
by the Saturday Review, which says:
WILL RESENT 1T.
1.-THE Emperor Of Germany has re-
ceived a rebuke which he VIII bitterly
resent There is no doubt the formal
alliance of France and Russia makes
il hencefOrth impossible for MIN TO be
that arbiter of the destinies of Europe
which ne aspires to become. The dual
alliance is at least as powerful as the
triple alliance was formerly II IS no
longer a dream.
The Indian troubles have let loose
flood of criticism which blames every
body connected with the government
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, in a viru-
| lent letter just published, declares that
I Il
which VIII be most difficult TO quell,
adding:
Every gallant life now lost in the
/ onslaught of the northwestern fanatics
! is a victim of the reckless ytllification
and persecution Of Turkey, which has
been the British policy since 1893, and
which has ruined Armenians. pros
trated the Greeks, revOlutionlZed Crete.
| lowered British prestige and alienated
| the Mussulmans in India
! Professor Arminus VanOery,, the well
| known author on oriental questions,
( partly comedies with this view of the
| situation though disclaiming that the
! sultan has had a. particular hand in the
/ present troubles, which are Pan-Is-
/ lamic.
The SATURDAY. Review. while excul-
patinE the sultan, declares that LORD
| Roberts Of Kandahar IS believed by
many of the best informed people to
/ be at the bottom of the affair winch is
cIassed as a legacy Of the LandsdoWne-
Roberts administration. whose MOTTO
was military aggression
THE SPECTATOR
The Spectator, touching upon the
! same subject, saws:
While We are paying for and deserve
10 nav for. is our unwillinsness TO grasp
the Turkish nettIe boldly. Had II been
l.rsowu in India that we alone dared 10
roarce the sultan, and that he GrenoIed
81 our words. we should have mad no
outbreak on the frontier.
IN spite CT constant denials 1t IS httle
dofbted in official circles that the
ameer Of Afsnanistan has h2d a nand
[ in the present troubles and that MS al
-i+ude toward Great Britain is IN
fr-iezedIv. It has been known for months
1aSf tf1at the ameer has been ordering
enormous quantities OF suppAes ana
| a7,,ror1-iticn from agents IN England
sn9 4Ilis 50 attracted notice of late that
his orders were not executed
In the meanwhile no news IS per
roitted to leak out Of Cabul- the CAP
ital OF AfgnanistaI. Every mai =
closely scrutinized and all SUSPICIOUS
Iettars are ooened Sir Walter Pvne'
H. arneer's right hand man. mas been
s1-nac4ed in England on MS annual
visit for weeks past. but no news hds
- received regarding his movements
and ii is quite possible that ne IS Dc
tanned at Cabul by the aneer-
AMOUNTS TO NOTHING
! President Kruger's sensational de-
ea-ca .0f Great Britain is accepted
cCIdIv by the British as amounting 70
nothing and TO which the transfer oI
the British prOtectOTate from lile lc1 :
e;gn Office to the colonial once - d
Toseph Chamberlain, secretary OF
state. fer the colonies, has aosollIyeiS
afirmed the suzerainty Of Great trlt-
ain over the Transvaal. and IS esier-
{ mined to assert it in no uncertain Ia IN
icn- me Saturday Review utters a dls-
I senting cry, declaring that the conVsh-
tiou of 1884 was expressly Irdriled @ "
fine the complete independence OF u-i7
Beers.
BAD WEATHER
The rain. cold weather and violent
| tblInderstorms which have prevailed
, throughout Great Britain and the con-
fineot during the week have greatly
$500 -, r,Iaa sure AZ all the sea