The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-17


world. and tire downfall Of the sultan is
again predicted. History !s only repeating
itself.
Tie Eastern question" INDEED. deserves
its name % eternal Cattle dispatches re-
eelve5 within the last few days declare
thar more than 1000 AFmenians have re-
Gently been nnassacred. not only By the
kurdish troops q the sultan. but BY reg
uiarg Revolution r. rampant throughout
the domains 81 Abdul Hsmid. and the sue
cessor % Mah9met covers in bis magn.h-
cent palace. IN hourly fear OF assassin
ton.
European diplomacy. however. f. ~ more
excited today. probably. than II has often
been for 20 years. During the present
century a. least there has been NJ inter-
mission II the plots and caun'erp}ofs ~
European powers for seif-agEra ud.Zemeut.
with Turkey az q factor. stu an end
comes 70 everything and the Indications
now are that the Ottoman dynasty e On
the verge ~ dissolution and the empire
near Acknowledgement.
For 20 years Tar longer than any other
European dynasty the house OF 0thman
has ruled from Conztantinople. again and
again has Turkey been attacked. and
worsted y has lost many y SIS possess
si0ns. set witb all his atrocities, the I'm
spe8ksbla TURK has managed u luxuri-
ouslv exist 10 the close 81 the nineteenth
century. with its elimination of civiliZa-
tion.
But what has been done can be done
again. The rule Of tho Turk has been got
rid ~ IN Hungary. Greece. Servia. Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Bulgaria Historians
have shown that az long as any Christian
land IS under the domination % the Turk
there viii be masgacTes. The menaces Of
Europe for the last seventy-fve years nave
been unsvallng % prevent the almost
constant recurrence Of the human slaugh-
ter that IA now f9r the hundredth time
shocking the world
The direct results 81 Turkish c1nquests
have been that while In the last 5o0 years
the nations Of Western Europe have been
marching on with progressive civilization.
the natives ~ Eastern Europe have been
suffering ~ years Of bondage. with ali Is
frighifui attendants. THE rule OF the
Turk" says Freeman "hy whatever diplo-
matte euphemism n NAV be called means
the hondtee and degradation % all who
come beneath his rule Such bondage and
degradation Is not an incidental evil which
may be reformed IL IS the essence Of tho
whole system. the groundwork on which
tho Ottoman power is bulit. The power
which Gilman began. which M8homos the
ConqueTor firmly established. which Snle'-
man. the hwgjVer. raised u the highest
pitch and splend0r. ls. beyond all powers
that the world ever saw tho embodiment
OF wrong In the most glorious regions Of
tho W9ftis me rue or the TURK mas been
the abomn8ttou If devastation and nothing
else. out ~ II no direct coed can come"
These Turks who f3r SO long have defcd
Christianity and deceDcy whose govern
ment has been murderous and corrupt
whose very existence aa a government has
been a shame and reprn1ch 20 all Chris
tendon, IRE merely piundcrors ~ the vast
empire they dominate II was in the wear
ITO that the Saracens. sw0oping from Africa
down upon Sn8in. gathered IN the Turks
who IN turn became supreme. l. was fhe
Turks whose prosecutions and cruelty
brought ou the Crusadce. rather than the
Saracens themselves. There had heeu no
Crusadcs until the Oc7mens got into
power Millions AZ human lives have been
ruthlesslv sacrificed since then through
the faplticlsm ard hloodthirstlncss ~
these former uomads
II is estimated that M 10 and including
the massacre AZ SsSsoun. tn 1895. or the
Armeuians about fooo1o Christians have
been murdered nv the Turks since the
Slaughter Of Greeks AZ ChloS In 1S22 IN
1s5n The world wss Mortified az the whole
sale murder n HISTORIANS and Armcnlans;
IN iS6a ~ the atrocities m Lebanon and
Damascus whom tho Nar1nitee and Syr-
fans We're the victims and "a 1876. when
The BulEaTians were put - the sword and
torch. How many Christians have been
killed In thc last few wears Il Is Impossible
q learn. for the sublime porte shrouds all
such THINGS IN impenctrahle mystery.
England and Turkey.
EuEland's attitude TODAY toward Turkey
IS IN many respects similar ~ that which
she has accBpscd since tho time ~ %apo-
leon J. The dlplomatir history of the CEN
fury shows Fnel'ud - have always boon
making threats anu demands upon Turkey.
AMI always - prove the suifan's friend IN
the ent. Tho proeont strained relations
between Great I'rttau's and the other
European ministries are due i'm 4 measure
q the ever-VcVtny Eastern question. and
tho antpathv m Russia ana EnEland very
much s'. Tho Crimcan war ulHnte1 seeds
which have harno crop ~ hatred and
England subsequent d7uhle-f3ce8 policy
continually added 20 tho enmitv then enc
gcndcred rs tho Cr.mean war Russia
was deprived ~ her prafocter1tc 1vev
Christians in Turkor. and che other Euro
pcan powers declared thrv would Soc ~
Tho prevention n ouiprcs Waw They
have done n the events ~ today hear
bloody witness
After EnEisnd's assistance Pa getting
Napoleon out n Egvpt The English se'has-
sador at Ceaytanilnople WAS favored hv
the sultan with thp slit - orc n thr
handsonsesf sites Pm the dem'uions fer thr
headquarters ~ thc embassy. True there
was q good 3el ~ friction 80 times. ans
rrisiu's represent ltfves were nst 4lwHvs
OF Che heef Tho French un3er Napoleon
III. especially Eet into tNe Eaei rrlc~~ ~
tho porte su1 under vreSeure the sultan
adopted a sarf ~ modified ~ car5c7turs1
FORM ~ thc eefc Napoleon. which h-s
bc0n. es e doubtless wts intended 80 he
dead letter
NJ Gladstone always Intended .N7t che
Trrk should 81 Driven '~rm Europe bus
rs great rival. Era-rns1aIl. pursued an
other policy. which Nss hosn Iuhrrft.l er-
parontlv. h~ alf succeeding minister's 49,.
indeef u''~~ael feu heir - i far1 sol
sstvrv few tsys Rvo sre1ee.->5 f-~ the
present loneliness or Eusloof in t1e o .~'a-
matte world bv saving taat Hfs ctboot
hsd Inherited the policy E has been rur-
suing Salisbury has ea1 cead te3l O. 5o
with the Eastern Cue4f'' 80 Whom az a
member of former c1hinets ne rsr''- Dhte1
81 sending "H1t.nafuma" 20 ,hr Turk. -Ne
problem Is ms q view one 81 hIn.
I.ara Deray's pecul AR methods r tsc -Ts
Whom he sueceeled in nulNfyin< tee rfr-
IN trafv has hat q E0nt deal On 81 "a 'h
1euEl8nf's atfitutn toward tse TurS7 ar5
England f2iaV Is looked O. q tske trr isaH
tu crusNfrE fhe power So f9z fHsr~.l hiV
defsnse3 and shiol7eA purIue tae f.4~.s-
Her sovina revolution Ir~' }NsreV'a g.
scy wAs - keep EHrr2cs hsn1s n ths
porte and leg TNlrkov Hrat % est Wita Nrt
own sucs~cta Then came ere #uc~vc~sv-
able Agrocltiee in Ru,ghrit au& tsa ~evviar
Wa lori party's proposal that laesl
vas rc'e--tei ~ ire 81. t,fuaa pavt -a-rrat.
snd Rcs>egaznel3 Ere pursuance Z rs ue-
culsr lire - t-'' "s. f-.a} & thr-w abe
oals - the refe>-fien 90 rra SerTt.-s
Whea RuSS2 stepped 'n wtr tr- -r
pssal chat RosGia Pa, Occupied tv N-st-.a
ana Bulgaria hy d s@.a. We t.r 81. PEI
az tAe pow efN sNnH't rr t~- we ts.E. 81 r~'ts