New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-22
regulations Of the Strats her real wish is to use the
Straits for offensive rather than defensive purposes

regulations of the Straits her real wish is to use tne
Straits for offensive rather than defensive purposes
The Turks were never destined to shine as 1nan-
cers, and the hepessness of their plight. in view OF
the depreciation of paper, is pitiable. Orders IN
council do no good. The paper will not retain
value. The average Turk ascribes this fact to the
wickedness of the Greek or Hebrew stock broker,
and calls on the Government to put the price OF
gold under control of tho police. One of the local
papers derived much consolation from the fact that
the Russians are not going to allow Turkish paper
to depreciate beyond a certain point while they
have any on hand. Some Russian soldiers captured
lot Of 100 piastre notes at Adrianople and were so
thOughtless of the dignity of the Turkish Empire as
to sell them for piastres IN silver apiece. Inc
general commanding is said to have ordered them
to sell no longer at that rate. The Turkish pubic
considers this order rs an evidence of friendly de-
sire to maintain the credit of Turkey, and Is duly
grateful to the Russian who issued 1t.
The same public is indignant that the English
fleet should have purchased stores at the Princes
Islands to the amount of f270 cash down in thirty
six hours, thus depriyng the inhabitants Of the
islands of their food supply for night. 1t also
believes that the true way to injure Russian
credit is to burn up fve-rouble notes wherever
found. The Treasury is now being reOrganized
and it is to be hoped that it will be pnt on a COM
nonsense basis. The people are suffering terribly
from the follies of the past. There are half
dozen different currencics in the land and any local
governor make laws to suit himself forbidding
the transportation Of currency from one place TO
another. No of the currencies is in general use
and it is the common people who pay the penalty of
this state OF things. When loss occurs ii Is the
peasantry who bear it, and they are becoming
more and more wrctchedly poor. IL has seemed LOT
months that they could reach no lower degree OF
poverty, short of actua starvation, but they man
age to live somehow in their present miserable
condition. The influx from European Turkey Is
multiplying the nliseres OF the people IN ASIA, az
the refugees must in some way be provided f0r.
One cannot help plying this Turkish population.
for they lose all in this migration. The refugees
are still coming in alleging Bulgarian ourages as
the reason for abandoning their country. IL Is
even said that the Russians have insisted on the re-
m0val from Bulgaria of all Moslems. There would
be precedent for this in the treaty Of 1929, when
Roumania and Servia were cleared OF the Turkish
population by stipulation, but it is not just that it
should be The question OF reorganization would
be vastly smplifed by eliminating tho Moslem eie-
ment, but the people thus driven out are
strewing the whole track of their march
with their own dead, and the carcases
of their lfeless cattle, and the aggregate
wrong done is enormous. European sympathy for
Christians is a very curious qualify Ii cannot pass
the line of the Bosphorus. There Is not so much as
a word of comfort for the Christians OF Aslatlc
Turkey in the terms of peace aud, unthought OF,
they have TO bear the burden OF a great M0sleln
population oustcd from the home of IFS fathers by
Christians, aud now importunate for food and
a resting place. The Christians OF European lnr-
key are freed from the presence OF the unspeaN-
able Turk" but this freedom is gained at me
expense of the equally worthy and far more suffer
lacks real beneyolencc if it does not devise means
OF protecting the Christians of all Turkey.