Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-29
England Called Gar
World Menace in 1854
Says Stadts-Zeitung
(From the Staats-Zeitung.)

(From the Staats-Zeitung)
NEW YORK, Dec. 81 have before
me a copy of the Illustrated London
News of Saturday, February II, 1854.
The leading article is entitled The
War Against the Barbarians." The
present campaign waged against Ger
many and the German emperor is but
an echo of the following villification
which was hurled against Russia at
that time. The article says, in part:
1.-THE publication of the two interest
ing and important blue books effectu-
ally removed many errors and uncer-
tainties from the public mind. The
rise, progress and present state of the
Russian aggression against Turkey
have been fully stated. Englishmen
have now no reason to suspect that
the statesmen who have successfully
administered the affairs of this coun-
try from 1850 to the present time ever
betrayed the high trust reposed in
them. 1t is proved, at last, that they
have never acted with subserviency to
the wicked designs of the Emperor of
Russia.
Gar Bitterly Assaulted.
at is evident the conduct of the min
lister and diplomats of England has
been prudent yet patriotic. They were
slow to believe that crowned emperor
could say that which was not; and that
man who had given repeated proofs
to Europe of sagacity and of modera-
ton could all at once belle his charac-
ter and commence a crusade against
Mohammedanism, for the sake of ter
ritory, even although the penalty of
the act should be war against all the
civilized states of Europe.
"In every stage of these long nego-
tiations he (the czar) stands condemn
ed. Wherever such a thing as public
opinion exists public opinion has de-.
clared against him. Whatever may
be their form of government, the po-
pie of every European state are oppos-
ed to ambition so nefarious. The in
stinct as well as the reason of nations
is alarmed, and the czar stands with
out a friend before the supreme trib-
unal Of mankind.
Proud as They Are BarbarOus.
ct may be urged that it is possible
the czar will yield at the last moment,
and sue for peace on the best condi-
lions he can make Such result is
possible, but not probable. If the en-
peror be SO prudent, the prestige of his
power will be lost and Russia will be
disgraced in the eyes of a people as
proud as they are barbarous In such
a case, Nicholas will never again have
it in his power to trouble the peace OF
the world A preemptory demand for
his abdication would be the least of the
perils that would threaten him.
And that is the Russia to which Eng
land is allied today by bonds closer
than the English people know. This
the Russia for which thousands Of
Englishmen are going to their graves
in Belgium and France! The shorr
space of go years-short when We
measure it in terms of race history
has wrought remarkable change.
A man is known by the company hi
Keeps A nation cannot escape tn,
same test. WeScannot think of Eng
land in her war upon Germany otlfel
than as championing the seventeenth
century culture of her ally We know
that a nation that would ally itsel
with Russia against Germany is read!
| to accept Russian doInination-if it car
be effected-in Berlin, and with such ;
nation we can have no sympathy