Show TURKS AND AM christians making all r reasonable a allowance for oz the report of the commission corn sent bent to armenia for the pur pose PORO of investigating the alleged turkish atrocities in that unfortunate country seems to settle fettle beyond a doubt that mohammedan persecution aeo se again has haa been consuming a great number of christians christiana under clr cir cume equalled equal led only during the reign of the most mosto cruel ruei rulers of pagan rome borne time and agelo even within the memory of the present generation the sult gultana sultania anim government has baa permitted its ita to feast in blood in greece to in bulgaria in Herze herzegovina govina and other punishments have been inflicted sod od promises prom leea of reform exacted only to be broken and forgotten it to la therefore disappointing and aad to some extent inexplicable that the he powers represented by the investigating committee con toe doe themselves to 66 pressing pres aloe upon the ports porte the necessity of promptly in ting a scheme for armenian Arme alai re forme forma 29 2 9 such promises are poor stone atone went orient for the innocent blood that again has stained armenia Armen laPs oil moll it some seems self as if the recent history of the balkan provinces is being repeated in asia minor in every detail notwithstanding the berlin treaty and imperial airmans fir mans the condition of the christians in 1875 was wa so hopeless that when they rose in reo ellion oo they publicly declared they preferred death to further slavery to european powers ever oscillating between honor and material interests between duty and profit they said if you are not willing to help us to attain liberty you canoot cannot compel us ua to enter into flavery again we will never rail into the bands of the turks alive this was dramatic enough to cause the suspicion that the matter was ser ermour eri ioup our the christians are an industrious dust rious race and aad their extermination would in all probability meau mean a dec decrease decresie renie in the revenues and a lose joss to foreign bondholders bond holders hence the powers joined as a now to in a note to the ports porte and brilliant promises were obtained but the christians were not satisfied montenegrins Montene grins and joined the rebels of Bo besnia bosnia pints and and they gained several victories over the turks turk it was plain however that they would ultimately be crushed unless union aid was obtained at the time the english public was kept keag almost to in ignorance ot of the true state u af off fairs ff dri irs finally however light came chiefly through the report JD n bulgaria published by a special of Iti inquiry sent by bv the jolted deates government the british working classes were aroused and demanded action on oa the side of justice at t the time mr gladstone said of the bulgarian horror borror there is not a criminal in a european jail there is not a cannibal in tho south sea islan islands dp whose indignation would notarise notarize not arise and bo llover at the recital of abal which bau ban been done which has baa been too late examined but which remains which has lefi lef behind the alerce passion that produced it and which chic h may spring spring up in another murderous arv harvest lt from the soil reeked with blood and in the air tainted with every imaginable deed of crime and shame that such buch things should be once is ia a damning disgrace to the portion of our race which did them that a door should be left open for their ever so barely possible repetition would spread that shanie shame over the whole in IB the spring of 1876 popular indignation bad been raised to such an extent that bat the governments of Germ germany auy austria Au atria russia france franceane and italy sent ent avoldt note ote to the ports porte demanding redress in behalf of the oppressed christians england refused to join be abe powers and the sultan in IB consequence fl itly refused to listen alter further negotiations all futile alexander the be second took the matter in in his bis own hands bands and sent an in viding army across the frontier the russo turkish war ensued and the independence pen dence of bulgaria mon and Roum Bou manla sola would have been the result had not later overturned the terms agreed upon by the contesting nations in the treaty of san stefano had the policy rt at that time advocated by gladstone been carried out which involved the expulsion of the turks from christian countries the be armenian masse eres would la in all probability not have occurred but the fe english government again oame isme to the rescue and the tb treaty of berlin prolonged need the life of the sick man pour faur million and a halt half christian people were generously handed banded back baak to their oppressor oppre wore by the representatives of christian europe As AB the settlement Bett lement made at berlin did not solve olve the eastern problem it appears plain that this will be a menace as 8 long as ai christiana are doomed to servitude under medians A separation reparation of the two elements Is ie what to in needed and eventually it will be effected but bat perhaps not before european statesman lateana en are made to feel that the interests inte reato of justice and humanity in the scales of the eternal judge weigh more than shillings and bounds |