Show HOW TO DEAL WITH TURKEY It has the thc rule ever Cl since our government was vas framed to tu have Itac no nu entangling alliances with any aty outside pUW power r. r It is a good rule lule too but t nt we wc think the time has conic come when heu 1 the he president of ol the United States Stales ought to tu serve C notice on all the ll nations of I I Europe that it is po e of this country to hold at least two to or three cruisers with a large contingent of marines in Turkish and to waters indefinitely notify notify notify no no- Turkey that while the thc United SI Sf Slates ates has no disposition dis his his- position to interfere in the least wit with h the affairs of the thc Ottoman empire it- it iHs itis i is determined at 1 the he sa same mc t I time hue that American eit citizens ens within t I hat that empire shall shah be protected even cven if it becomes s ary n to 10 bombard I cities or to invade territory Had that thai been done ten years ago it would Ita ha have ye c saved saed many litany an n A American merican life and many a Christ Christian ian life lif and the thc world would have ha thought more of us for it it It is something horrible horto hor hor- to read road that brutal soldiers turned into a a. mob lob have hn dC devastated a large area of country and killed people not saving sHying so much as one child chill Of course missionary r work is supposed to he be peaceable work hut bul when i missionaries of our country go gu into nto a H savage country then the government should do 10 ono one of or two things either cither forbid thorn them to go or UJ- undertake to IC protect them while they are arc there Doubt Doubtless less t the hc Turkish government o will plead plea I that hat under the tho excitement and 1111 semi revolution ion prevalent preva n lent in jn their country now they cannot c e responsible responsible responsible sible sible- for unlicensed acts on t he part of a rude sol sol- diery p. p But the true trite business would be to have the cruisers there and the marines they are a er very wholesome ome restraint on brutes who fear nothing but force and aud dread nothing hut but pain |