The Labor enquirer., 1886-03-20
rHE ooERcIos or sHEn0E.

From the Brstherhosd u Peoples e the
People OF Great Britain
and Ireland.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
In,compliance with the request of the
Greek Section of the Brotherhood of
Peoples, dated Athens. February II.
1885, the Central Committee, sitting In
London. issued the following appeal:
Two millions of Greeks have chosen
the first opportune moment, and taken
up arms for the liberation Of the 4.000,-
600 of their brothers in race who still
linger under Turkish oppression. This,
the paramount duty of every man. Is,
with the Greeks. q sacred tradition.
There is no people in modern history
which has made greater and more ready
sacrifices for their emspcipation. At
the close of the War of Independence in
1880. undertaken and carried on under
the ban and the undisguised enmitY of
the then Holy Alliance of the Despots
of Europe, there remained amidst heaps
of smaking ruins and in completely
desolated country, just one-third of the
population which had existed previous
to the war. So that two persons per-
ished for every one who survived to en-
joy this dearly won freedom.
A more terrible or more noble sacri-
fee WAS never offered up on the Altar of
Liberty. Yet large section of this he
ro,c people was again forciblY subjected
to the inhuman rule of the Turk, and
the Greek state was thus mutilated at its
birth by the infamous hands of those
same Autocrats, in whose >eyes the
Greeks possessed the objectionable fault
that they were in the foremost rank of
the indicators of the most advanced
form of human freedom.
; Repeatedly in the last fifty years the
Greeks of the freed state and those be-
yond its borders. have moved for the
completion of their freedom and unity,
and on each successive occasion it was
not the Turks, but the crowned enemies
of everv movement for the emaneirs-
ton of the peoples of Europe who re-
morselessly thrust them back under the
brutal yoke of the Sultan. The people
of the Island of Crete alone revolted FIVE
successive times within the last few
years, and on the last occasion it was an
English aristocrat. Earl Derby, then
Lord Stanley, who, with the assent of
the other powers, decreed in his capac-
ity of foreign minister of the British
people, that the Cretans should, IN spite
of their struggles and sacrifices, remain
slaves of the Turk.
At this moment the powerful agency
of England is at the beck and call of
that enemy of freedom, Prince Bismarck
las witness his treatment of the unfor-
tunate Poles of Germany, and is EN-
ployed in the shameful work of coercing
Greece into submission to the will of
Europe,"-or, in plain language, to the
dictates of the other five despotic organ
izations which pretend to hold the des-
TIMES of the European peoples in their
hsnds,-and prince of the royal house
of Great Britain, the Duke of Edin.
burgh, paid by the British and Irish
people. is to take command of the COM
biped fleets which are to carry ont this
iniquitous work of subjugation. They
talk of European peace as their great
concern,-these Despots who have
transformed Europe into an armed
camp, and who have never hesitated to
food it with the blood of their subjects
on the slightest appearance of danger to
their selfish ambitions.
The Greeks now appeal from this
"European Arecpagus" of Prince Bis
arck,-from this international Court
Martial of Military Despots,-to the I'M
prejudiced minds, to the sympathy and
sense of Justice of the true peoples of
Europe, who themselves are now suffer
ing from Social wrongs no less bitter
than the national wrongs of the Greeks,
and whose very cause the Greeks are
promoting by their sturdy defiance Of
the will of the European Despots.
More particularly, the Greeks appeal
to the British and Irish peoples in the
spirit of Brotherhood, wheth er they will
allow their hard-won, earnings to be
squandered, and their blood poured out
for the maintenance of the deepotic
principle, which is the only object of the
solicitude and the efforts of the govern
ments of Europe; and they ask them
whether they will take it upon. their
consciences to allow so much as one arm
to be raised to prevent the Greeks OBJ
tanning the sacred right of every true
man-National and Individual Indepen-
dence and Freedom. By order
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.