Salt Lake Herald | 1896-11-04 | Page 10 | England's Proper Attitude to Ward Russia

I i EXGLA XDS PROPEK ATTITUDE TOWARD TO-WARD RUSSIA From The Eastern Ogre or St George to the Rescue by W T Stead in November Review of Reviews In the course of the agJtarion I regret re-gret very much to have seen many expressions ex-pressions of irritation and of indignation indigna-tion at the conduct of Russia Mr Gladstone himself not being altogether alto-gether guiMess in this respect I is i a case in which we should do well to take the beam out of our own eye before raving at the mote in the eye of the Russian In view of the evidence evi-dence now patent to all men a to the real essential nature of Turkish rule Englands attitude toward Russia ought certainly not to b that of resentment re-sentment or of indignation Granting Grant-ing that for the moment the policy of reserve and of inaction adopted by Russia is most deplorable in the interests in-terests of humanity it is but a passing pass-ing episode of a few months at the most But Englands attitude for 50 years has been just that which Russia ha adopted within the last 12 months Let us grant i you please the worst that can be said against Russian policy the effect of which has been to secure the 12 months longer lease of immunity to the assassin of Slam boul What is that compared with the guilt which we have incurred by our persistent surport of the Turkish misrule I mis-rule a support persisted in for generation genera-tion after generation and that not merely by the adoption of a passive I policy of nonintervention on behalf of the assasUn and his predecessors