The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31
VITHA VIEWTO WAR.
The Armenian Atrocities are
Fomented by Russia.
THE SULTAN A MAN OF PEACE
The Future Of Turkey-A Look at the Army
and the Probable Result II
Russia Succeeds.

SARATOGA, August 26.-[Special CORE
spondence to The HERALD. The latest
dispatches from London state that the
troubles in Turkish Armenia are increas
ng. and the Sultan is being denounced for
not putting stop to the so-called massacres
of Christians. The whole blame is laid at
the feet of the sublime Porte and the true
inwardness of the outrages are unknown to
the public The truth is that they are in
cited and fomented by Russia. and the
probability is that they are the advance
guards of series of provocations, which
will ultimately result in a war between
Russia and Turkey, and for which Russia
is now seeking pretext.
No American diplomat has ever held
more confidential relation to his colleagues
and TO the power to which he was sent than
our late minister to Turkey, Mr.. Oscar L.
Straus. Mr.. Straus was one of the closest
friends of the sultan during his four years
in Constantinople. He entertained magnifi-
Gently at his house in Pera, and he became
at the same time very popular with his
brother diplomats. Wealthy and cultured,
he was offered and took the opportunities
of his position to get thorough knowledge
Of They're eastern questions, and there is
no man in America who better knows the
inside movements of the European powers
in regard to Turkey than he.
Imet Mr.. Straus here to day and mad a
long talk with him upon the Turkish sltua-
ton.
1.-The country Of the Armenians,' said he,
SIZES in the north eastern corner of the
Turkish Empire in Asia. They have one
of the oldest lands in the world. Mount
Ararat is supposed to be in it, and they
.l,.~ ,la+b how. II, I oanit
have the original site of the garden of Eden.
They are much in the same condition as
Poland and have been partitioned about
under the warning nations Russia has
taken slice of her territory and wants
more. Turkey has slice, and another
part belongs to Persia.
sWhat is the population of the lands'
said 1. 'sThatI can't say off hand, replied
Minister Straus, ''but there are between
two and three millions of Armenians in the
Turkish empire and between four and five
millions of them in the world. They are a
very shrewd, quick-witted race, and II
many respects they may be compared to the
Jews They are a people held together BY
religion, by traditions and by race preiu
dices, and they are to large extent PEG
pie without country. Most of the Turk
ish emigrants to America are Armenians
They are the money changers and banker.
of the far east, and they do business al
through the Levant. They are pushinl
and progressive, and they are within theil
limitations one Of the brightest business
people of the world to-day.
raE SULTAN AND THE ARMENIANs.
1.-THE Sultan recognizes the ability of tn
Armenians,n EX-Minlster Straus went on
He employs them largely in his publ
Offices. Most all of the under secretaries o
various government departments are Ar
racapf1u ia mir n
finance, ,Agop, was an Armenian, and thu
under secretary of state, Moustachaa, wa
of the same race. These Armenians ar
all Christians, but they are all of diff
ferent sects. They have their owl
patriarchs and their own ceremonies O.
worship. As to their religion the govern
ment of Turkey has always treated then
well. In Turkey freedom of worship
has always been recognized and con
ceded to all such sects. This has beer
so since the fail of Constantinople, in 1852
and this freedom is in striking contras
with the intolerance of Russia who ever
at the present day does not concede that Il
the dissenting sects within her empire
The fact is that the Armenians of Turkey
notwithstanding considerable misrule, ar
to-day enjoying more liberty than the Al
menians OF Russia
RUSSIAN UNDER HANDED METHODS.
'sBut how about the foreign kilograms
These tell much different story.'
Yes said Mr.. Straus, 'tbut these re
ports are undoubtedly exaggerated, an
much of the Russo-Turkish news thu
reaches the outside world is doctored {
suit the political purposes of chiefly Russi
or of the malcontents of other nation
wherever il may be. Both the Crimea
war and the Russo Turkish war of 1877 an
1873 were begun by Russia under the pre-
Of f,,.0fenfipo 10 Chriction cuhiact
of the Sultan. This is the high and hol
.'Shibboleth,n of which Russia aVails hel
self to cloak her greed for territory in th
Orient She began the war of 1878 by sert
ing her agents into Turkey to stir up To
Christian population. She is doing th
same thing in Turkish Armenia to-da,
and careful investigation OF these on
RACES which are reported in the paper
will show that Russia's hand is pulling I'll
wires which are at the real root of I'll
trouble. / don't mean to deny that there
considerable misrule in the outlyiu
provinces of the Turkish empire and Jh;
this nisrule is accumulated in sue
provinces as Turkish Armenia chief
known as the villayet of Van. This, how
ever, is not to be attributed to any intentic
on the part of the Sultan or the sublin
Porte to Cypress the Armenians, but
is a result of lack of systematic and we
regulated government, which increass
with the distance that province is fro
the central government. The Sultan dot
everything in his power to correct sue
misrule, but his efforts are not always Sc
onded by the officials that surround hir
That his intentions are the best, and tn
his purpose is to put such intentions in
execution. can be gathered from the ia
that within the past few days he has a.
pointed a commission of the most prom
nent Armenian officials of the empire, i
Ill, "a lot min ictn IF 6pa
under secretary of state to devise meal
for the better government and that porto
of Turkey inhabited by Armenians.
know from my own knowledge and fro
the various conversations j have had wi
the Sultan that he is a man of peace, al
the purpose nearest his heart is to rule
such way as to satisfy the various ell
ments Of the empire. This is not only
the line of his policy, but it accords wi
the estimate and make of his character al
disposition
ssHas the Sultan ever shown any desi
to quiet these disturbances and to prote
these elements ~
'sHe has repeatedly replied Mr.. Strau
He has charged the governors gener
such governors were not properly noticil
dis Christian subjects. This has been do
N the line of his policy to maintain pea
in his empire -
NO SIBERIA IN TURKEY.
ssHow as to the prisons go asked
1.-THE prisons in oriental countries a
like the streets in oriental countries, in
very primitive and bad condition. T
Turkish jails are not so bad as those
Russia There is ne Siberia in Turk
and there is no administrative process
Turkey by which, unheard thousands a
sent to he'll worse than that described
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