Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-15

ment and a legislative body, upon Whlch
I the responsibility might be shifted,
| how convenient il would be! 1t was
/ thought worthy of a diplomat, and no
/ sooner was il ushered into the world
/ than. presto a Parliament sprang IN
/ TO being. Lord Derby, the English Am
/ bassador. either not approaching the
true situation, or hoping TO make II
the beginning of something which
could be turned to English advantage,
URGED HIS GOVERNMENT
to give the new legislative body all the
{ support and encouragement possible,
+ but Salisbury refused to be caught with
any such chaf, and calmly continued
| his negotiations with Ignatieff. These
ultimately failed, however, and the war
which followed was thereby made a
certainty
] Meanwhile the Grand Vizier turned
( i'm vain to the European governments
+ for aid and sympathy. and his disap-
/ pOintment in this regard was changed
/ to CONSERVATION when he was informed
that the Parliament from which he
hoped for so much in the way OF bet
tering his cOunry's condition was on
/ theeyeOf going into an investigation Of
/ official scandals which would involve
men high in power and in the good
f graces of the Sultan and which might
ultimately approach the foot of the
/ throne itself The result he knew
would mean little less than revolu-
I ton. and with no hope of outside sup
port in the approaching crisis he, as
the best and indeed the only course
open for him 20 pursue. advised his
master to issue a decree abrOgating the
/ constitution and dissolying the Parlia-
ment This the Sultan very promptly
/ did. it being but q precipitation Of his
individual intention anyhow, TO have
been carried ont as soon as either eX-
cuSe or policy offered an opportunity,
and thus ended constitutional govern
m5nt i'm Turkey
Had the powers recognized this pre-
tense of reform as though it was gem
Uine article. and thereby aided the few
really progressive men and strength
ened their hands. they might have
planted the seeds of q movement which
with care and attention could have
grown into a strong and sturdy institu-
zion. little or not no all inferior to the
really successful - pular governments
of Bulgaria and ROumania. But Eu-
rope. under the blighting and selfish
/ leadership of England. stood aloOf, and
the farce was played 10 the end. For
the result brought about Lord Sails
bury was TO- blame more than any other
one man. I'm 1877 he denounced the
liberal Turks who hoped to perpetuate
the Parliament and who had builded
high hopes for the future of their dis
tracted country; yet q few weeks ago,
ON the occasion Of the receipt of the
personal letter OF the Sultan this same
Lord Salisbury lamented the absence
of the men and the lack of the spirit he
DENOUNCED AND DESTROYED
i'm 1877. In his Brighton address Lord
/ Salisbury. i'm yO.cing this lament, pre-
dicted that
1.-The present difficulties would not
be solved 10y external action of the ad-
wishing powers. q clumsy device at the
best. but by the natural operations Of
an enightened minority working
/ through Efficient and competent instru-
I ments. I 10 not see the men who are
+ % replace Ruslem Pash2. Twenty-Five
I years ago there were several such. ~
/ And he eNhOrted Europe 10 remember
+ that '.the terrible Armenian problem is
quite as much the want OF competent
men as of adequate laws
/ III his lordship thought equally week
/ Of Rusiem Pasha I'm 1871 when the Tan
zimat was PROMULGATED. he did not give
/ him the benefit of a practical proof OF
/ his regard by indOrsing the scheme or
/ constitutional reforms which Ruslem.
( Nidhat and others of the enlightened
/ minority" OF Turkish ,esmen or that
/ day submitted for his lordship's ap-
prevail i'm 1917 There were competent
men" then and adequate laws. The
/ Tqnzimat failed because England. ad-
vised by Lord Salisbury refused to
+ give it the moral support which Eng
/ land. under the advice Of the same
/ statesman offers now 60
AN ABSOLUTE DESPOT.
This an brings us back to my asser-
ton of a week ago that, events prior TO
/ 1870 aside the powers. led by England,
( are really responsible for the situation
/ of to-day and of the recent past. They
have made it possible for the Sultan
/ t0 do what they demand, even We're he
disDosed To- comply European selfish
ness quite as much as Hamid's tyran-
nv rs behind 0I sent expressions, cor
r1ptiOn. fanaticism and anarchy.
For Turkey to purify itself is what
Mr. ingalls, would term an iridescent
dream. The Empire is a discredit-
ed impotent and corrupt despotism,
/ wherein flourish every species of pOlit-
icql vice. From Mount Ararat 10 the
Adri7tic there ifs one universal stencil,
: ono universal discomfort When it can
+ seem politically eXpedient or necessary
TO the Sultan to place in positions OF
/ biph dignity such men as the infamous
/ scoundrel ana proved thiet, Bahrl "a
sba the earnest Turkish refomer may
we'll despair of bringing about a better
state of things by means of what the
/ moderate young Turks call the gen
! rral results of the scienuhc evolution
Of the west" The Sultan alone is not
strong enough to cope with the system
of which he is the official head. He is
+ roverless i'm its grasp. With the best
/ intentions he could not Immediately
overthrow the baleful forces which
/ have grown to their present huge pro
Dortfons under the fostering OF the
movers which now denOunce them so
bitterly. There is but one logical and
effective solution of the problem. De
nose the Sultan. bring the reign OF Mo-
/ bammedanism to the end, place a Chris
tian Prince upon the throne OF Constan-
tine and recreate the Empire of the
Eos+ ". C. BEANS
HARRY MINERS LITTLE JOKE.
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