Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10
THE SULTAN AND CAR
SEEM TO BE WING WITH EACH OTHER
IN CRUELTY.

The tAtrocities in Armenia Are Exciting
Great Indignation In Engiand-Reports
of the Persecution of the Hebrew Race
In Russia More Than Confirmed.
rBY CABLE TO THE pIsPArcH.l
LONDON, August 9.-Mr. Gladstone, on
the advice of his wife and medical friends,
abandoned the idea of waiting for the For
eign Office estimates for the purpose of re-
ne wing his attack on the Government for
its coquetting with the Vatican, and went
to his country seat early in the week. In
his absence the foreign estimates were util-
lied to obtain some information from the
Government respecting alleged Turkish
atrocities in Armenia. The attempt was
not very successful, as the Government pro-
fessed to know little or nothing, altho ugh
it has agents throughout the affected
province. But chief among them is
Mr.. Clifford Lloyd, formerly the most un-
scrupulous and tyrannical of coercion magis-
trates in ireland, and now British Consul
in Erzeroum. If the other agents be of
Lloyd's stamp it is not probable that they
will side with the suffering people, and the
Foreign Office, as it has done before, will
have to rely on the newspapers for trust
worthy information. The daily News has
sent special correspondents to Armenia, and
reason or other the Turkish Government has
resolved to make the lives of Armenians un-
bearable.
There is well-founded suspicion that
the Sultan is deluding himself with the
idea that bv supplauting Christian Armen-
ians by Mohammedan Kurds he can raise
up formidable barrier to Russian conquest
of the Province. The immediate result OF
his asinine policy is to make the Armen-
ians look to the Gar as their only powerful
friend, and the feeling of indignation in
this country is so strong on the subject that
it is probable Lord Salisbury would not
dare to interfere should Russian troops
enter Armenia. This is the prevailing
idea even among the Liberals. who
are at present Indignantly denouncing
the Cars ukase against the Hebrews.
Upon this subject also the British Foreign
Office has the scantiest information. The
British Ambassador at st. Petersburg tele-
graphs that the Russian Government en-
phaticalIy denies that new repressive edicts
have been issued. That is true in sense.
What has been actually done is to revive
and enforce edicts which have lain dormant
since 1882. According to one of the richest
and most respected and philanthropic He
brews in Europe. Benjamin Louis Cohen,
Chairman of the Hebrew Board of Guard
Ians of London, the Russian authorities have
already issued secret instructions depriving
members Of his race Of all educational ad-
vantages and forbidding them to take part
in mining industries or in the legal profes-
sion.
Mr.. Cohen has trusted agents all over
Russia, and is entitled to speak with author |
itY in this matter. He declares that the i'm |
mediate effect will be to turn adrift hun |
dreds of thousands of innocent and law |
abiding citizens, many of whom must in |
evitably enter already crowded labor mar |
kets in Europe and America, and that |
the lives OF 100000 human |
beings will be affected. Mr.. Cohen is con-
WINGED that nothing can save his unhappy |
brethren except the powerful and outspo-
ken remonstrance of the civilized Govern |
ments of Europe, backed up and if need be |
urged on, by the public opinion OF the |
nations" He hopes also that |
"the Government of the United States, al |
ways friendly to our race, will take up our
cause" Public opinion in this country is
already moving. Indignation meetings |
have been held in Edinburgh and other cities,
and arrangements are in progress for great
demonstration of the citizens of London.