New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-25

T. with n good deal more than II. Is I'D Iuii
forco opd the whole Ottoman Empire Is under
pussian nrotecton. only until q convenient 'i''e
for fu,l annexation. The Indian boundary. Ior
n third Charles Marvin prophesied woe wheh
Russia WAS supposed to be ut the gates o'
JIorat. but now she Is building military rail-
road straight TO that city. So elsewhere fer
sia has become commercial dependency OF
Russia. md Abyssinia an ally: Bulgaria Is Il
moro satrapv of the Gar: Montenegro Is Kus
sia's fast friend. and the recent marriage has
secured Italy's friendship also; and Servia anu
Rumania are on the point of casting III 'he''
LOT with the great Northern Power Mr.. Nor
mans statements concerning the last-named
four States nav well be challenged; the others
are indisputablc.
The climax Of his argument is found in the
Russo-Chnesc treaty. and it Is assnreui! wei
based. That extraordinary instrument places
tie whole of China north and east OF fehIhs'
and Picking itself under Russian control. Rus-
sia is to gridiron II with railroads. DOT IL WIFI
fortresses and garrisons. make us pest por's
armed naval stations for her fleets. she ~ 10
have practical monopoly of developing us
trade. mines and agriculture. and II comprises
some Of the richest provinces of the whole En-
plre Manchuria alone has population oil
more than 22.OOO.O00. She is to occupy posi-
lions giving her absolute control OF the Guii
| of Pe-Chili and of all the seward approaches
10 Tien-Tsin and Picking. In brief not the
| Amoor but the HoangHO is to he the southern
| boundary of Eastern Siberia. The total foreign
trade of China in 1893 was nearly 31j.0OOOOO
taels. of which Great Britain had 213.JOOO0c
and Russia only 100, 900: yet henceforth Rus
STA is to have the regulating of the whole.
And while all this was being accomplished
saws Mr. Norman bitterly. the British Minis
ter ut Picking twiddled his thumbs. That Is an
extreme way of putting If. Perhaps II Is uh-
warranted. Yet il is true that, so far as can
he seen, no effective resistance is made 10 R'ls
sias steady march toward wellnigh universal
dominion, and no compromising advantages are
gained by other Powers for the preservation
of the balance. In every diplomatic passage-ai-
arms since the Berlin Congress- nearly score
of years ago, Russia has won. Every inch OF
ground she has laid hands upon she has re-
tained. almost without dispute. When THIS
treaty with China was first announced Eng
land regarded it with incredulity 1.-The Lon
don Times" declared that Great Britain could
not view with Indifference IAN enterprise which
would constitute a destruction of the existing
balance Of power almost unparalleled in It's
"audaclty" Yet now the same journal sup
posedly under Government inspiration. accepts
the new order of things fully established,
and phiosophically says there is no use in
"eroaninc over activities which we are power
less to arrest
Russia then. has become the supreme ar
bitter of the whole Eastern Hemisphere. That
is the most significant fact in Old World di-
Elomacy in these end-ofcentury days. If all
Europe is not COssack. it and Asia 10 boot and
part Of Africa are dominated by Cossack di-
plomacy. III Europe Russia claims all of Ru-
mania Bulgaria. Servia. Montenegro, Turkey
and Crete, with lien upon Greece and Sean
dinavia In Asia she claims the entire vast
continent excepting AMMAN and Siam, which
she comedies To France, and possibly part OF
India. In Africa she claims the whole of Abys-
sinia 1t will be interesting 10 observe how
much further her aggrcssiOns and accreiions
will be carried before her Empire falls asunder
through the essential weakness Of Il huge physi-
cal mass unleavencd by moral enlightenment
and spiritual vitality.