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Show TUB TURK AND RUSSIANS. Tiiefj aie twoaido, c-cn Uj American Ameri-can ecii&lard, to tho war queoti';o. Mr. Charles A. JJaua of the New York Hun defends thu Mi.lidninn.'dau Turks ag-uidt the Citriniian Mu-si.i!'.3. H; rtay-, "1'Ue loyalty of I-h:n to the gonpel of humanity iaa Iwa f rvid aid unahakun," and that the "cwtu-tial "cwtu-tial nature of a Mohammedan com nmnity is now and had always been a veritable social democracy." He claims that tol ration exiats tu a larger degrco among the Mohammedan than among Christians, and calls upon the Jews to Utility to this fact, fie asserts that whilu Chri;tian piopa-gandiam piopa-gandiam is almcst sterile in Africa ;i iid Asia, .MihHnim"dan mifionarif!3 Invii ppno-trt' ppno-trt' d Uin liciirt of A fricn, Imvu rtdeerm-d miliioiiH fr -in tin; ruiite of i-t: in II Midi Mi-di atari, and havo lipurglit over whole prtivinei;- in wt-sKrrn (Jliina. Whilo lln-iiiliaojULfiti lln-iiiliaojULfiti ol liii;y(! wide rL'ionM, num-L-r.tiK more tnnii half tht) population of tho i(hK, (cum t" hu marked out by .-uoij Hi'liirivoiiicnts a thu fu'.uro ridhu-rents ridhu-rents of Islam, it i.i idle to question tho vitality or abridge tho epliuru of thai religion. A IlebVcw writer in tho New York World, contrasting tho treatment of tho Jwa in Turkey and Russia, says tliat his co-reiigiouistd have been "burprisid and pained to find that in the preMent struglo tho sympathies of this free ceuutry ara given largely to the nepotism which is more op' pressive and intolerant to tho Jews than any otlnir government iu Europe." Eu-rope." Many Jew, this writer Bays, hold prominent positions in the Turkish Turk-ish government, and in religious matters they are treated upon a foot ing of porfect equality with the other sects, and are in every respect made to feel thnt no insidious distinction is allowed to eiist botween them and the members of othor religious sects. Wlionwoturn to tho potation which tho Jijws occupy in tho Christian coun-trio coun-trio adjnconr, t" Turkey, hovr ront is thu contrast. Hero thuy at once Ibid thouiielvt-B a peop'o do;pised, trumph-d up ui and sulujrcLtd to ttio most odious jiiTsecutions- In Koiimanin their condition condi-tion ij eo duplorai lo that it lia9 boon made lli'j sulij-ct of frrquont mproionta-tioriB mproionta-tioriB in the british htmso of commons. From time to timu ihoro are uprisings of tlio population ajiiiiuat them in liuchar-1 tt, Jaiy a rid other towns, their warehouses ware-houses ore plundered, their goods and money stolen, ihoy aro themselves scourged, driven out of heiiso and home, wilii their Dej,ri;ared wivei and fimilitE, thankful Ij cheapo with their livos. . htm, as occisionaily happens, they fall vietioia to thu blind fury of tho populace, pop-ulace, and murders take place, llie nHis?ins aro never punished it mftieca that Lho murdered man is a Jow to excuse ex-cuse tho murderer. Tlioro is no uso in appoaliny to tho law, for Ihoro is no justice jus-tice for tho hated race; they enjoy no civil rights and aro denied many commercial com-mercial privileges possessed by tho Christiana, on tho ground that thoy 1 would become too rich if they were por-niUU-d to have them, Tliia is, indeed, their solo fault; they aro peaceable, in- duslrious traders, liarruinn no ono and only dcsirine; to bo allowed to pursue llieir avocations In pence; but no sooner aro they suspected of amassing too much wealih than iheyare brutally and violently vio-lently robbed. |