| Show MORE TROUBLE PERHAPS dwing during the days so long and drearily drawn out when the minions of the sublime porte were streaking the soil of armenia with trails of blood and the sky with flames of burn bum tag jag villages there was a silent but an intensely earnest watcher on this side of the atlantic his name was uncle sam and while he did not because he could not interfere in an active way he be went as far in that direction as tha the rules would permit it was plainly the duty of great britain which had for fog many years acted the part of a belf elf appointed semi protector over turkey to take the initiative and the closing in dealing with that I 1 reign of horrors but she would not turkish territory and the status of its Sovern government ment not being affected the wing killing and destroying went on unchecked the protests and entreaties made ade seeming but to increase the ders and add fuel to the flames it was very much the story of cuba repeated only on feudal instead of modern dern soil armenia belonged and belongs to turkey even as cuba be longed but da doe not belong to spain ame armenian horrors diminished in 4 proportion to the diminution of the material to work upon and of late have been heard from but very little the e gentleman bave above spoken of has brought the matter again before the of of the he world and in what may prove to be 0 a ominous way aring the butcheries but cheries and miscellaneous outrage rages oaties on in armenia mom ome e america property was de ji troyed ed payment ta lp tull full tor for which has bett duly dema wile but denied now we united stated Sta teB living having a navy in good working order and nd nothing else rf ge a pressing character obar acter for it to do proposes Bro poses to dwter a fleet to turkish waters aters and it 1 steed be collect the bill at the mouths af pf 0 a ot of our far reach ln havoc american suns yantis idle to 40 una h how 0 w such a ding would 0 rr onate te in the satenice e of on the aale vetura turk would be b broucht to time in jb Methin aring 9 of a hurry perhaps without a ashot shot and djs uh would not be ae of at might triumphing over right r ithe the turkish has haa amold rid erable of OL a navy and alid end en and abo tb feat dis ce blob our ships wo would id have to aid the to dt n assist rt except abt was wa taken would have an equalizing tendency even if our fleet beet under similar conditions were the more powerful besides turkey is by no means right she is altogether and entirely wrong not only by the ethical determination of what is wrong inthe concrete but by the laws of nations property destroyed by her subjects belonging to the subjects of other nations especially with her approval is a charge against herself and on refu refusal sEel to settle force to is strictly permissible the fact that in making the enforced collection one shot might be fired for the money and two or three as av engers of the awful work in armenia matters not in the least it is a composite proposition and must be considered as a whole in 1 line ine with the immediate cause but would there be no interference germany has of I late ate years manifested a growing and suspicious regard for the sul sultans tams government one that is less diplomatic and more unreserved than that of great britain if the reported alliance between the two powers shall materialize fully and both babb of them warn us away from bhe region of the dardanelles Darda nelles what then would we back down and let them arrange matters for us it would not be in with what has haa been done by the ameri lean ican arms within the past few months I 1 but of course we could not fight with any hope of winning three great nations I 1 water vv ater especially when one of these is the greatest of all and we so far from home the question would under such circumstances be whether i or not the queens government would maintain its friends friendship bip for us or its agreement with germany G if the former we should only have to do what but for the friendship spoken of we might have had to do before this and what it still seems we may yet have to do in turkish waters or some same other it is easy to believe that the united states has demolished the naval power of a nation which on the seas ranked above germany and nd that any kind of possible combination that left england and france out would in the end meet with a similar faite it might undoubtedly would result jn an more fatalities and losses to us because these have been almost nothing so tar far but in the end there must to the mental view from this vista be other grim groupings of the skeletons of warships tossed idly about by the waves with the stars and stripes floating float flo abang ing triumphantly kissed and caressed by the foreign air |
