The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-22
CHANGING POLICIES.

kanS WlLH IeIindHy U seems like the irony of fate to Great Britain, especially Ill that that nation is now called upon to assist in achieving the very same Russian design which she opposed so strenuously in the end of the seventies of the nineteenth century.
 Russia effected the freedom of the Balkan states from Turkish yoke not from any desire that the smaller nations should be free, but in order that the Balkans might at- ford field for the Pan-Slavic aims which centered just as much then upon Constantinople as they do to- day.
 When Adrianople was conquered and Great Britain demurred to further advance, and tAe treaty c! San stefano brought independence to the turbulent little states of the Balkans, the Conservative party in Great Britain with Beaconsield as the leader and the Mentor, brought about the Berlin conference which resulted in Austria grabbing all the fruits of the war, and the British interests in the Turkish peninsula being threatened not so much by Russia any longer, but by the Pan Germanic urge for expansion of it's field of influence.
 Gladstone fought tn-s state ot things bitterly and decried the dang erous policy of Great Britain in SUD- porting the unspeakable Turk against Russia's natural ambition to seek and find the sea.
 The great British imperialist lead CTS gave a banquet to Lords Becons- field and Salisbury on July 27. 1873, at London, whereat Beaconfield jus tifed every act that had been done at the Berlin conference. That is known as the "Peace with Honor banquet, which later became the motto of those imperialists whose conception of honor was to keep their place in the sun by preventing any other nation from receiving any of its kindling influences. Beacons- field laid stress upon the urgent need for union between the Greek and Turkish races to secure against the pan-Slavic monopoly which was fast invading the whole of the Sul- tan's Dominions' He said that England must prevent the conquest of Asia Minor i've must interfere in this matter, and arrest the course of Russia It is interesting to note that Beaconsfeld concluded that they had brought about order out of chaos and relieved the country and the Balkans of the perpetual fear of invasion or aggression
 The end of that speech is much better remembered than any other section for his bitter reply to Glad stone'ss criticism that the Berlin was an insane conven- tion: q will rot say to the right honorable gentleman, "naviget Anticyram but I woud put this issue to an English jury-which do you believe the most likely to enter into an insane" convention, body of English gentlemen honored by i the favor Of their sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, i your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence and not alto gether without success; or sophi- i sticated rhetorician, inebriated with i the exhuberance of his own yerbo- sity, and gifted with an egotisticai that can at all times E all interminable and in { consistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himsclf'.
 It is quite apparent however [ from the manner in which he felt I he severity of Gladstone's criticism that Beaconsfield also felt that the course directed not by him as he so naiyely supposed but by yBismark and Metternich, the real brains of Inc convention, was not all it ought to be after all these pretensions.
 Because tho change in British po- icies confirms the truth of the great | socialist doctrine of econmic deter