| Show The Jlission of Russia Will there be war between England and Russia is the great question now agitating ag-itating Europe The Herald has during the past few days published from its correspondents in Paris and London a series se-ries of noteworthy interviews which while not settling the question definitely one way or the other have afforded in terestiug sidelight on the way European and especially British public men have of looking upon the difficulties that have arisen upon the Afghan frontier Unfortunately Unfor-tunately for England her statesmen and < piblic I men see Ilussia only through Iran Ir-an spectacles Every Russian move tpnt is looked upon by them as a fresh fcep in the advance on Englands Eastern qnre The report of a Cossack spear SiJ half a hundred miles from Herat is I fioutfi to send them quite off their usual blance rendering them almost aWe a-We of looking at facts as they are or discussing dis-cussing the absolute necessities of the futUre fu-tUre It is an unworthy fear for her Indian In-dian possessions that makes English statesmen incapable of understanding Russia makes her listen to the vaporing of the poet of the Light of Asia and her conservative statesmen to cry out in despair Oh for an hour of Beacons field and her liberals Or rather fifteen fif-teen minutes of Palmerston I These despairing cries for the ghosts of the dead statesmen are doubtless a fair f expression of the general desire oft the of-t English people The spirit of hatred of eventhing Russian is unfortunately the same now as in the days of Palmer Eton and the Crimean war when the attempt at-tempt was made to stop the growth of a eighty people bv humiliating stipulations stipula-tions wInch were broken and flung in the face of Europe at the first favorable op portunity it is the same spirit that un der the Beaconsfield regime developed raw the mockery of Jingoism and clue f cla hollow success in preventing the IuUmnt of Russias dreams at a Moment when that Power stood before d gates of Constantinople exhausted alter a long and bloody campaign Does En Lnglgn4 intend still to keep up her op lSition d lIU8sf at oyeJY point in Ell rape l and in Asia It seems EO it tlioxgli to impartial judges woul e S that the wiser course voubl be for her instead of call log tocaTto On t h shades of departed statesmen 11110 Cast about her for a great guiding mind nstead of attempting to repeat the r fcnf I < of Uro0 nfe oM lady who tried with her fhouSii stop the Waves of the Bea 0uld ttusS ia T bQ able to recognize tho fact that and in v has undoubted rights both in Asia ln5 in Euiupe which some day or other is R ce r am to insist ° n It is fr upon Palm line for England to let the ghosts oi lid the erston and Beaconsfleld rest They days J York required of them in their llga and thy left 1 the unwholesome of f i cy hindU 1 wwsophobia and Jingoism be face them 1 he England today should a i diffcrepro Il of Russias demands in tifferent rent spirit from that which ailed pre it ognize I 111 ars gone by She has to rec Such c fact that anY trouble about chan of Turpn Insignificant aftar as a few verets lUcfflan territory is caused as Sir fromm Tempic says to divert attention cial dIslnlClIe lFeattr and grander aims Our spe uiitniB iclles from Vienna and othoi lure of f have repeatedly hinted at the na how omii events They have shown br ria and Russia supported tied in Uan Willie Englands hands were the i final settle Soudan were Preparing for a EUro0 J Settlement of the Eastern question ir by themselves would Even now it Mghan only need an outpost fight on the tilt Anee frontier and El1fflands support oi Ulcer to preclpltate and ring SV0 matters ant JliiBBja the campaign to the Bosphorus 1 SOme ono onco wrote is a giant t fP VI L with her head bedded in eternal snows and her feet resting among beautiful spring dowers She has long felt the necessity ne-cessity of putting her head where her feet have been of opening up the vast commerce com-merce of her Asiatic dominions which she is developing and of shaking off the last of the humiliating conditions hampering ham-pering her entrance to and egress from her southern dominions and England will eventually have to submit to these necessities being fulfilled or be prepared to opposed them alone Can she do so New York Herald March 19 |
