New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-05
ENGLISH LIBERALS ON THE TREATIES.
Mr. GLADSTONE DENoUNCEs THE ASGLO-TURKIsH
CONVENTION AS AN INSANE COVENANT.
rEy5el y0p H Speech before SouitteaTk L(berai


MR.. GLADSTONE DKNoUNCKs THE ASGLo-TURKIsH
CONVENTION AS AN INSANE COVENANT.
Crysets From Hs Speech before ne SouhisaTk Loerai 40
soeiaiiOnl
What has been done during and under this adj
mnisraOn. and most OF all what Las been done during
tile last twelve months during the last six mouths dur
ing the last three months, during the month OF June
raises question broader than OF tho questions that
have divided Tories from Liberals during tho last half
governed your future pledgea and compromised your
enormously extended tho necessity for your
cent bnt without your knoWedgo~lhear hear2and not
only without nowledge, but with the utmost
Tangenents la We been completed until you are 10 nd
yourselves tied with the care Of new continent CONT
nent full OF DISCRIMINATION and msgOYeTnment, cont
neut two three thousand miles away; and you 20
bo charged without limit OF time With tue responsibility
OF the good government OF that continent by not
done by you, but done for you" shame lalthOugh
win venture 10 say there Is not IN Europe government
no. not even despotio government, that would have
dared 10 enter into sucn engagement on behalf VI the
nation whom IL ruled It quite time that the people
Of should the earliest convenient oppOr
uniiy be consulted 20 the mode In which they
being governed and that n these things are 70 be done,
they shall DO DONE not In the dark and bOhnd your backs
putin your faces and with your neutrality-suspicious.
against your will and my VIII but with The will and
entitled 10 give their votes upon them.
by the Angorurkish Treaty you have undertaken
three things You have undertaken the occupation and
administration Of the Laud OF cyprus, upon which
viii not Say snStsins because taken 1 se II Is so
you undertaken secondly, 70 defend Turkey I'm
Asia against any attempt That Russia may make-you
have undertaken 20 1000 miles from your
trytho only country where you Obtain either the
materials OF war or the men 70 hght, or the means By
which war is 10 be supportedyou have undertaken ~
go 1000 miles from your own country alone and single
any ae upon Turkey in ASIA by the assumption or ac-
question: OF by the possession as u y said IN the treaty
all Tor besides that you have undertaken 10 TO me
good government Of what Il perhaps the governed
country IN the whole world namely tine entire mass OF
Turkey IN ASIA from the Dardaneles down the Per-
sian Gulf from the Mediterranean TO the limits Of Per-
sa. And oil this, gentlemen without your consent or
without your knowledge, has been promised TO be done
at your e1pense-ob, ohl-by your your treasure, by
who may be called upon 70 serve her Majesty
in the army. Gentlemen, there Is but Que
epithet which l think and l do not pro-
DOuuce IT IN moment OF excitement but pronounce
1t very caImy-there Is but one epithet which tnnA
fully describes covenant OF this kind think t Is an
insane covenant iSensation and eheorsl ! have
known, gentlemen and known well, the most eminent
statesmen, now dead OF the last forty years nave
known them on both sides OF politics. was In my early
life follower Of Sir Robert Peel OF the Duke OF yelling
ton ana OF Lord Aberdeen, ana although regret some
things That did, and have altered some OPINIONS that
then held yet IN point Of honor and public duty am
lHea heari do not think that the country had
more honorable public servants and moreover, wiz
Sir r. Peel, tnat have known under tho name OF
men, what wish 10 say Is this. having known them.
the other side, and known well. and worked with such
men as Lord Russell Lord Panerston-lhear, bearl-
Lord LansdOwDe, add many more now called 10 their
account do not believe thai there Of thOse-I am
perfectly confident that there never of those
men, that under any circumstances would have been
induced put his name 70 such arrangement that
winch, 20 our shame, as think now. has gone forth
under the name OF the Angl0rursh Convention. [Cres
OF Shame"l
JOHN BRIGHTs LETTER
Mr. Bright in q letter 70 the Rev. ]. c. Gill; Lee Kent
after referring TO the efforts made, especially b. Mr.
Gladstone, for the maintenance Of peace, says Tie
war Government Is seeking credit for having kept
the peace Let as be thankful that has avoided
each war avoided isin some degree guarantee for i-
peace. Unhnppily our people understand little Of
foreign afIaiFs, and having known m their
own country they easily excited by interruptions
Minister and party press. take some comfort be-
heyng that Christian sentiment I'm favor OF peace has
active during the past year than at former
period"