The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-19
AN OMINONS GHANGE

A cable dispatch announces that the
Sultan has dismissed his Grand Vizier,
Mahmoud Pasha, and summoned to
Constantinople Hussein Arni Pasla, who
is to be appointed either Grand Vizier or
Generalissimo of the Turkish armies.
This action is of serious consequence to
the future of Turkey and the peace of
Europe.
The deposed ViZier MahmOud Pasha,
is man of ability and good Judgment,
who saw the dangers surrounding the
Turkish Empire and the extreme diff
Guilty of averting them. knowing that
the first step towards making the Empire
more secure was the improvement OF its
financial condition, Mahmoud Pasha
labored earnestly to that end, but only
to find himself thwarted, instead of aid
ed, by his unreasonable master The
Grand Vizier sought to pacify the dis
turbed districts by making concessions,
promising reforms OF abuses, and invok-
ing the mediation of the European pow
ers. His efforts were h-nnrht to nought
by the distrust of tie iIsurg, LIS of his
ability TO fulfil the promises made, and
by the Har, III opposition 70 the policy of
reform. Mahmou; Pdsha hesitated to
inaugurate more active war policy than
had been adopted by his administration,
foreseeing that such course could have
but one terininatiun-an embodiment
with one or more of the Great Powers
and the destruction of the Turkish EN-
pire
Hu.sein Arni Pasla, the former Vizier,
who has now been summoned to Con-
stantinople, is the acknowledged head
of the war party known at the Turkish
capital as Young Turkey His policy,
and that of the party he heads, is to
leave the Bosnian ard Herzegovinian
insurgents TO themselves for the present,
il need be, and Ia mIak. attack on
Montenegro aud Servia, which are the
real cpnters of The revolt. Not content
with this. lie il willing tn ndrp' and last
year advised, Il p ,iiey of heiiiice tow
ards Austria, whose Slav population
along the northern and western borders
of the Turkish Provinces are in sym
pathy with the Slav insurgents and were
greatly encouraged in that course by
the visit of the Emperor of Austria to
Dalmaiia last summer
The recall to favor of Hussein Arni
PaslIa therefore indicates the triumph
of the Harem faction, the commence
ment of active hostilities against Mon
tenegro and Servia, and ''the beginning
of the end" The Turkish forces are
already reported to be gathering at the
nearest available point in readiness for
an attack On Montenegro. The first
blow against that principality will be
followed by the invasion of Bosnia by
Servia and the march of the united Ser
Wan and insurgent forces, against the
Turk. The ferocious conflict which has
made Herzegovina more like a battle
ground of wild beasts than of men will
extend over a much larger area, and its
viction that the quarrel is no longer pos
sible of settlement short of the extermin-
alton of one or other of the contending
races. The European powers will be |
unabled to effectively interpose with
diplomatic measures. They must either |
be passive spectators of the most savage
war this age has seen, and which would |
disgrace any age, or they must step in |
to part the combatants by force and |
settle the dispute by a new arrangement |
of Eastern Europe. Either course is /
pregnant with danger to the powers near /
Turkey, and especially to Austria. The /
fall of the Turkish Empire will shake to |
Its foundations the ill arranged and in /
secure Austro Hungarian Empire and
cause feeling of insecurity throughout
all Europe And that fall now seems