New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-23
TURKEY DENOUNCED.
TIE BRITISH POPULAR MOVEMENT.

GRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE TURKISH PowER-THE
LONDON PRESS on THE EXPERIMENTS PAMPHLET
GFEoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rmBUSEl
LONDON, Sept. 7--If fortnight ago Mr.
Gladstone displayed any rehccnco in coming forward
TO express his views public questions TO his
constituents at Greenwich, lie has thrown aside all
hesitation to make his voice heard in regard the
Bulgarian horrors aud the present general aspects OF the
Eastern question: for when invited TO attend meeting
al Greenwich In reference the Bulgarian atrocities he
did not delay sugle mail" IN inmatlGg his willing
ness TO speak on the subject, but ut the same time
deprecated the making Of the meeting OF the
Liberal party only for, said he Il il requisite TINT the
great movement now in progress should De nothing less
than national In order TO make the attainment of It's OBJ
iccs, far may be, both certain and safe" The
Greenwich Liberals accepted his advice, and accordingly
Mr. Gladstone will address hugo open air meeting on
Blackheath on Saturday afternoon. Before doing So
however he has issued pamphlet Of 60 pages I'm
which he deliberately sets forth his views the whole
Eastern policy Of the Government, and refers with al
most passionate vehemence 10 tho recent doings in
Bulgaria Tdis pamphlet, which Ia published by Mr.
Murray is appropriately dedicated to Lord Stratord de
Radcliffe, with the admiration which all accord 60 him.
and which has grown with friendship of more than 40
years" Mr.. GladstOnes views come not a moment
too soon, for the etorm OF indignation which is still
raging with all its Intensity IN regard to the barbartes
Of the Turks and the policy want OF policy, OF Lord
Beaconsfeld's Cabinet has greatly needed guiding
hand 10 direct its influence to proper and useful channels
As Mr.. Gladstone himself truly remarks there Is dan
that popular Indignation may waste itself the past
if not properly directed TO the future He places before
the country proposals. which have clear and definite
aim. to which the only objections that be urged
from his party is that they DO 60 far enough
This objection, however, viii only come from the extreme
section those who have urged the expulsion OF the
Mohammcdan Turk from Europe. The proposals go very
much further than anything before urged by Mr..
Gladstone and IL they would not forever dispose OF the
whole Eastern question, they viii at last, II properly
carried out prevent except In remote degree, the pos
sblity of Of such donEs have Of late
heard much about His proposals practically amount
to extinction Of direct Of the Porte Bosnia,
Herzegovina, aud Bulgaria. but he would s leave these
States, like sery1a, Roumania, and Egypt, under the
nominal sovereignty Of the Porte.
Mr. Gladstone opens With justhahle reproof OF the
Government The people Of this country, he says, had
shown Just hut very remarkable disposition t. repose
confidence In the Government Of the daya confidence OF
which he significantly says the Government Of the day
has awaited itself 10 the uttcrmOst The nation had 70
dispense ony with official information, but with dis
cuson I'm the House OF Commons, and t was not till the
3lst Of July after ntcrmnabo delays and in the drcgs
OF the session that single night was allowed to review
the policy OF a Government and those OF other Powers
during twelve month"; aud TO ascertain the prospects aud
policy OF the coming In regard 10 the informa-
ton afforded By The Government MrGIadstono equally
authentic information met with datory pleas which
were pushed 70 excess and even at last the doCu
meuts were let uupreparcd for the press so that after
every reason asa every prcteXt for Withholding them hal
been exhausted precious weeks were lost aresh In tie
necessary IaJors for aud OF the press" In the end We
have had by degrees, from private and voluntary e1y
ton the knowledge which was the bOundcn duty Of the
Government To supply and that By the light which this
knowledge casts upon past events we learn with aston
shment aud horror that far appears we have been
involved amount ut least OF moral completely
with the bascst aud blacklist OutaScs upon record within
the present century II not within the memory OF man"
The effect Of this not confined within the walls
Of Parliament; for securu, the escape OF great question
from public vigilance there is eXpcdcnt comparable
TO adourning parliamentary discussion Of IL until the dy-
ing hours OF session. For thus II Il brought before the
public mind at time when the nation Ia m holiday, and
when no expects and few will consent 20 be called
10 serious business
Mr. Gladstone goes on 70 sketch the Turkish race,
what IL was and what it a." II i not question OF
Nohammedanism simply but Of Mohammcdanlsm com
pounded with the peculiar character Of race They
are not the wild MOhammcdans Of india, not the chlVa!
rous saadus Of Syria, the cultured MOOrs OF Spain
They were upon the whole from the black day when they
first entered Europe the one great anJhuinan specimen
Of humanity" They represented government by force
az opposcd 10 government by law "For the guide o!
this life they had relentless fatasm: for Its reward
hereafter sensual paradise" Tns advancing curTe IN
past times menaced the whole OF Europe aud was only
stayed by the herosm of the European population OF
those very countries which at this moment the
scene OF war aud the anxious subject OF diplomatic
action The decay OF martial energy in a Power which
WIS fot centuries the terror OF the world Is wonderful
With the two hundred millions sterling which IN twenty
years Il borrowed from the creduhty OF European Ex-
changes, Il Is at with two OF It's own provinces
seryia and Montenegro upon thcsc handouts OF our
race All empire of than thirty millions discharges
Ian NIGHT md
activity at greatly pumes itself upon having incom'
pleely succeeded against servia aud less doubtiuly
failed a4anst Montenegro" Says Mr. Gladstone, Shades
| OF Baazets, Amuraths, and Mahmouds" As result
Of the Crnean war; Turkey had enjoyed for the first
time perhaps In her boodtaned history 20 years OF
reposc not disturbed by herself by foreign ower
and the case al present that Turkey which stood
only upon force IN the main Ost that force Power
IA gone and the virtues such they Of power, moth
ing but its pa ssons and its pride remains Is time
then to clear account which We have long, perhaps
| too long, left unsettled aud almost uncNaminod."
He goes on to refer the at tudc and proceedings OF
the British Government The consequences OF their acts
had been i'm his view deplorable They had not under
stood tile rights and duties ia regard to the subjects ana
particularly tho Christian subjects OF Turkey Which In
geparaby attach to Great Britain in consequence oil the
Crimean war and the treaty Of Paris They have been
rcmiss when they ought 10 have been active, namely In
efforts to compose the Eastern reyOs by making proy
ops against the terrible which provoked
them" They have also, no says been active when they
ouebt TO have been clrcumspect and guarded 1t Ii
grave charge which cannot be withheld that they have
given TO maritime measure Of humane precautlon the
character Of military demonstration IN support OF the
turkish Government They have seemed TO be moved
too little by an intelligent appreciation Of prior obga
tons and Of the broad and deep Interests Of humanity
too much by disposition TO consult aud Halter the pub
lie ouipion OF the day in It's ordinary narrow SELFISH
and opcuroan humOr, lie admits that until recent
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