Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 289, 25 September 1891 — The Future Time of Trouble. [ARTICLE]

The Future Time of Trouble.

The news with eaeh incoming mail will be more stirri»g than 5t has been iri the pass few years. The nations aee growing more angry with one another, and will 110 doubt break out into open hostilities whenever delusion jeads one or the other of the powerftil ua-; tional cojcnbihations of the world to feel that it would be to the advantage of §ither to strike the fitst blow. | There is also an intensified feelingof unrest growing amorrg the masses towards the classes, all over the world ? that bodes no good to the peaee of mankind. The storm clouds, whieh have been lowering over the Eastern Hemisphere, seem to be ready to bursT with a violenee that cannot be better described than in the words of the inspired writer, a and there shail be a time of tr@uble, such as never was

since there was a nation even to that game time.' > To-day the evidences are numerous that tlie world is ©n the verge of a time o'f trouble, for whieh no like have existed before among natious, nor such powerful and extensive combinations formed and preparatioDS made for war than at the present tim,e. The opinion held by leading etatesmen a few years ago, and by eminent writers and correspondents of the leading newspapers of the world, seem about to be fulfilled, u that the Turks is soon destined to be driven from Europ«." A correspondent ofthe N. Y. THbum, writing froin the Easfc said: isarming to the teeth .... to be avenged on Turkey. Two camp&igns of the Russi»n army wili drive the turkß out of Europe." CarletOG> wrifcing for the 6oston Journal from Paris, under the hc&d of the "EaBten Question," said: U I eanoofc perbaps render better seryice tban to group together sotne facts in regard to this question, whicb, accordinf to present indicatkms, areto engage the diate attention ofthe wor4d. Wbai is the Eastorn Qu«ition ? It is not easy to giYe fbr to Huwia it may K>«an oae thiQg» to Pranoe another, aod to A®gtria

still another; but siffced of every side issue, it may be re_duce<l : to this, —the driving oF TttE Turk into Asia, and a scraaable for his territocy.' Again he. say&: thas Hidications ,are that the Sultan is destined eoon to see the Western bqrder of hig dominions brēak off, Lpieee by pieee ? But what will follow? Arc Roumanii£ervia 3 _Bosnia, ajid to set up as an inde | i pendent soverelgnty together, and tske position among the nations.?!, or is there to be a rush for the esi tato of the Ottoman ? But that is |of the future, a future mt far dis-;j ianiP ■ ■ :.| Sinee this foregolng was written } ! ; the nalions have changed their positions. New alliances have been formed, Russia at-! titude as the aggressive and disturb- i ing element—her course clearly i defined in Czar Peter's will. and that is to obtain Constantinople, the ilrst step towards a watcr way for her fleet-to the lndies and to. the world. (To be Continued.)