Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 292, 30 Kepakemapa 1891 — The Future Time of Trouble. [ARTICLE]

The Future Time of Trouble.

Russia has retained her mortgage npon Turkey, not fbr any good purtowards the latter ; but as a ' -ver to work upon that nation. : .enever it suited the fcrmer to i, . rcise it in futherance of her i object—the'possession of Con«t:intinople and of the Indies, To show how mueh Turkish Territory h&ve shrunk up in Europe> we take the followinß paragraph from the Philadelphia Ledger t August, 1878, an inslructive exhibit of the map of Turkey as reduced ia the past es>jsaty years, and espftcially as the re3im of the war between the two natisnB whieh began in 1877. u Any one who will take the troubletolook ata map of Turkey in Europe dating back about sixtv years t compare that with the new map sketched hy the treaty of Bftn Stefano as modified by the B?rim Congress, will be ahie to fbrm judgment of the march of pro-1 grees that is pressing the Ottoman power out of Euwpe. Then. the

northern boundary of Turkey extended to the" Carpathean Mountsins, and eastward of ther 'river Sereth; it embraced Moldavia as far North nearly as the 47th degFee' of north latitade. That map *aleō embraced what is now the Kingdom lof Greece. It covered all of Servia j and Bosnia. Jsut by the year 1830 the northern froutier of Turkey was driven back from the Carpathians to the south- hank of the Danube, the principalities of Moldavia and j Walaehia being emancipated from • Turkish dominion, and subject only to the payment of an annual tribute in money to the Porte. »South of the Daniiße, the Servians had won a similar emancipation for their country. Greece alao had been enabled to establish her independence. Then, as recently, ths Turks was truculent and obstinate.Russia and Great Britain proposed to make Greece a tributary State, retaining the sovereignty of the ! Porte. This was refused, and,the 1 result was the utter destruction of the powerful Turkish flect at Navarino, and the erection of the independent kingdom of Greece. Thus Turkey was pressed back on all sides. Now, the northern boun- i dary, whieh was so recently at the: Danube, has bcien driven south to tho Balkans, lloumania and Servia have ceased even to be tributary,! and have taken their plaee among indepe»dent states. Bosnia has gone under the protection ,r 'of "Austria, as Roumania did under that of Kussia iu 1829. v ßectified' boundaries gire Turkish Servia, Montenegro,anJ Greece. Bulgaria takes the plaee of Roumania as a self-governing principality having no dependence on the Porte, and paying only an annual tribute. Even south of the Bal-1

kans the power of the Turk is crippled, for Koumelia is to have 'home rule' under a Christian governer. And so again the froatier of Turkey iu Europe is pressed back on all sides, until the territory left is but theshadow of what it was gixty years ago. To produce this result has heen the policy and battlc of Russia for more that half a eenturv; for nearly that space of time it has heeu the slruggle of some of the other 'powers' to maintain the 'iiitegrity J of the Turkish Empire. Whieh polioy has succ6eded r .{tnd whieh failed y a comparison of maps at intervals of twenty-five vears will show. Turkej r in Europe has been shriveled up ih the last that half dentury. It is shrinking back toward» Aeia, and thoogh all the 'powcrs T but Hussia ahoahl unite their forces to maintain the Oftoman srstein in Europe, thcre is a iminJeM destiny visible in the history of ehe last tifty yeaVs tJiat must defeat thein." . —■ - That Ti>m, Diok and Harry take alternate term» in ♦ « arrival of that <4 ya4*ht ?> and keep, \g i track of the 4, marshar' fearing tht latter may get the u drop M on them. I