Show PAN PAN may be defined defene as that political doctrine which looks to a consolidation soli dation under one government or one gigantic confederation of the slavonic races long anterior to the date of the earliest records of profane history a people having their origin in central asia migrated westward and sulu gated certain portions of europe in the the days of ancient rome this people then long resident in europe had their settlements in the carpathian mountains Mount aias which lure are now embraced in the eastern part of austria from this people have descended the slavic races of the present age the original stock was aggressive and prolific and spread from the region of which eastern austria may be assumed to be the centre northward to the baltic sea westward to the elbe and saale basle rivers southward beyond the danube and over the whole peninsula between the adriatic and black sea the territorial aggrandizements and migrations of the original slavic race nearly or entirely ceased in the seventh century y of the christian era from which time its division into distinct branches began to become marked these branches began to assume assum ethe the character of independent states and out of the transmutations trans mutations which the latter have experienced during the last thousand years have arisen a number of the minor states of europe as th they e y exist today thus the bulk of the population of roumania Roa manla bulgaria B ul garla servia montenegro etc are slavs and the same race predominates in eastern prussia eastern austria and other sections of europe which are embraced in other governments russia is of course the great slav state the mass of her population lation being of that race and it is if he court of the czar that the Pau slavic spirit seems to have its radiating centre the slavic people are connected by such sympathies as spring from a common language and religion and a common race origin true the language has been broken up into dialects but it is still so far common among a number of european lo 10 t states and provinces as to constitute e a tie between them but a stronger bond than this is their religion and the position of the czar at the head hd of odthe the reek kirtek church which predominates among them gives him in the nature of things an influence which aidt naturally be expected d to greatly augment his bis political power in connection with the growth of Pan in both austria and germany teece are populous communities which reverence the czar as roman catholics do the pope which is a cause of embarrassment ras to these two governments in their efforts to withstand his aggressive policy the tenor of recent dispatches from europe is to the effect that a Pan Fan slavic f furore aurore is prevailing in russia that an organization to further that political doctrine is being extended in that country and that most of the civil and military officials are uniti unit tag sg with it army officers in berlin anticipate a declaration of war during the coming summer or autumn russia has announced in advance the only terms upon which she will lay down dow n her arms she wants the us su supremacy over turkey in europe and demands demands that austria retire from bosnia besnia she boasts that she can beat both germany and austria aad it is true she can put a larger number of men in the field than those two governments could by a combined effort as her available avail aole army numbers and with the aid of france sue slie claims to be able to beat the triple alliance germany german austria and italy bismarck is laboring to bring england into closer relations witti the triple alliance and it is likely this will be accomplished for it is vital to british supremacy in india that rus designs be frustrated give the latter power the and the balkan peninsula and no combination of nations possible to be formed could prevent slavic domination of europe indeed after such success it is not beyond the range of the possible that the czar should become to the modern world what alexander the great was to the world as known in his bis day A study of krould f the tremendous advantage russia would have were she to acquire european turkey and the key to the commerce of the east will show her motive in grasping after those objects object and will explain why the rest of europe tear fear her |