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authority, and there would be large ele-
ment in the province hostile to any re-

authority. and there would be large ele-
ment in the province hostile to any re-
FORMS.
NV Judgment is that the only practical
method of reform is for the powers to detach
the five Armenian provinces. erect them into
one, and establish q local government under
the protection of the powers to become in
time an independent state.
In any case the ArmenianS must be armed
for self-protection. So long as they have no
means of defending themselves they will con-
tnue to be the easy prey OF their enemies. Ii
they were once armeu Gr Win rePea1ng Ilnes Inc
growing respect for their rights of person and
property.
empire has been bolstered up and kept from
falling to pieces by the jealousy of the Chris
tan powers Ii the Turkish Government were
left to itself it would fall to pieces of its own
Why is this wild Turkish horde still per-
mitted to camp in the fairest lands, i'll the
midst of peaceful aud long-suferng people?
II they had proven themselves capable of civil
ization-if they had improved the condition of
the people whom their arms had conquered
there might be some excuse Tor their con-
timed existence. But for 400 years they have
remained a barbaric horde in the midst of Eu-
ronean civilization, still living by plunderlng
the peaceful people among whom they are en-
I once thought that Russia should be left
| free to solve the Eastern question by securing
the natural gateway to her dominions, the
1
cal and religious intolerance which she has
! shown of late years proves too convincingly
! the Oriental trend of that empire.
| Roth the missionaries and the native Chris
tian popuIation of the Orient fear the Russian
| more than they dread the Turk. For with the
I iron rule of Russia there would be no longer
hope for either civil or religious liberty.
of the Armenian question, but also of the
| Eastern question, namely: the restoration OF
the Greek empire as IT was before its over
10 Tfrr r1,oy dow
! Crock is European and Western in his mode of
thought and life The Greek language, as pure
as in the days of Pericles, is spoken to-day by
millions of people.
The daily papers of Athens appear to-day in
the same Language that was spoken and writ
ten 24OO years ago. The Greek people have q
natural right to the territories on both sides of
| the Bosphorus and the Dardenelles which the
! Turks wrested from them 400 years ago. The
! people of Macedonia snd the jewellers around
| the coasts of Asia Minor are largely Greek to
| this day Let the powers dethrone the Sultan
and transfer the Government from Athens to
| Constantinople.
ward and eastward SO as to include what re-
| mains of Turkey in Europe, and in Asia as far
! as the border of Persia, and southwark as far as
| the northern shores of the Mediterranean and
the northern boundary of Syria, and let the
five Armenian provinces be erected into one
principally under the suzerainty of the King
! OF Greece.
sure of autonomy and an opportunity of indie
pendent development. Let England assume
control of SYRIA and Palestine and the coun-
tries eastward to the borders OF India. She
must eventually secure the possession of these
countries in order TO preserve her Indian en-
pire.
of the Turkish empire. 1t has existed for fifty
wears only by the tolerance of the Christian
bowers There is possibility of reform in
turkish rule. The history of their dominance
in Europe and Asia is the record of the decline
and fall of civilization in these countries
which they have cursed with their misrule.
Thus the Greek people will be restored to
their lust rights and they will have room given
them to expand and revive their ancient glory
Thus the Armenian people, who next to the
Greeks are the most capable people in all the
Orient will also be restored to liberty and to
the peaceful enjoyment OF their lands, which
their ancestors have inhabited and ruled over
ever since the dawn OF history.
And thus Palestine and Syria, under the
benign rule of England, Mr.. Burnett be.
lieves, will invite the return of Gods an
Gent people, the Jews, who are already
coming from the east and from the wes
and from the north and from the south to
dwell in the land promised to their father:
forever and ever.