The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-31
TURKEY TO ENGLAND.
"As you teach me will practice. Mr.. Dis
rael's Eastern Danger,

It would be singular instance of the
irony of Fate if the "Asian Mystery"
after lifting Mr.. Disraeli to fame and
place and power, should now of a sud-
den be made the instrument oil his down.
fall and disgrace. And yet it is quite
possible that this may come to pass. No
Englishman in private life likes to see
his hat treated with contumely, and in
public life humanity is the Erglishman's
political hat. It never stands in his way
when he gets into difficulty himself.
but it makes his blood boil to see ANY,
body else taking liberties with it. The
worst stories now told by the newspaper
correspondents in the East of the conduct
of the Turkish irregular troops in Bull
garia are really less revolving when we
codsider the relative civilizations and
pretensions of the two powers than the
stories told by sober history of the con-
duct both of the English regular army
and volunteers in Ireland under Lord
Camden's proclamation of martial law
in 1898. The avowed object of England
then was precisely the same as the al
legged object OF Turkey now. ITO strike
terror into the rebels" and it:was pur-
sued in precisely the same way. Cot
tages, hamlets and villages were burn
cd; men, women and children We're
butchered with every circumstance OF
atrocity. Infants were snatched from
their mothers arms and tossed to death
upon the bayonets OF half-drunken SOL
diers. True, all this occurred nearly
fourscore years ago; but Englishmen
would be very much incensed if il
were suggested that the England OF
1898 was no farther advanced in civil
zation than the Turkey of lS76,or if the
county militia Of York at the end OF the
eighteenth century were ikened to
Bashi-Bazouks in the last quarter OF the
nineteenth.
But in spite of all this the cruelties
practiced by the Turks in Bulgaria
should they prove to be as shocking anc
extensive as is now reported, will as
suredly set the sensitive nerve ofEnglisl
public opinion all aglow,a and it may far
very i'll with Mr.. Disraei it he canno
clear himself of the impntation Of en-
couragtng Turkey to perpetrate thes
excuses by his indifference to all consid
erations excepting these of English pol
icy in the East. He is in the create
danger that his diplomacy has prett
plainly been crowned with success, eithe
through the energy of the Turkish com
manders and troops, or through the in
capacity OF the Siberians. II the Sibe
rians had beaten the Turks, and Sibe
rian army with Russian Pansclavist a
its head, and all Russia acclaiming il
victories, were now marching on Cor
stantinople, the chances are that til
masssacred Bulgarians would be torgo
ten by English philanthropy, or the COZ
: sideration of their wrongs and miseris
postponed to more convenient season
But Mr.. Disraeli's determined interfel
; ence At the most critical moment warne
Russia back. The Siberians prosecutin
their desperate adventure alone, ha,
been badly checked,it not defeated. IT
integrity ofthe Turkish Empire seen
! iior the moment to be assured again, al
sympathetic liberal Englishmen, with OF
: eye fixed on the blood-stained plains
Bulgaria and the other on the Treasul
; benches. may safely and perhaps prot
vbly call their Premier to account for b
''levity" in preteering to believe the Bri
: ish Ambassador at Constantinople rath
= than the correspondents of the Lond
), press.-NeW York World.