The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-15
THE UNSPEAKADLE TURK
Subject of Rev. DR.. MeLeOd's Address
at Armenian Meeting.
FOREIGN POLICY CRITICISED
The Reverend Speaker Said That lie Was
Convinced Turkey Would Not Have
Answered England as She Did Amer.
lea in the levitt Matter.


Following is the text of the thought
full but spirited address delivered by
Rev. James Mcleod, ID. D., at the Ar
menian meeting in Elm Park church on
Saturday night.
THE Unspeakable Turk kw--This char
acterization OF the Turk Is severe; but it
Is not too severe. Carlyle hit the nail
on the head and clinched it; and, hence,
THE Unspeakable Turk" will stick as
long as the Turk continues to he 'un-
speakable." We have met this even
ing to protest against the outrages and
atrocities which the Turks have i'm
flicted upon the Armenian Christians.
1t is no pleasant duty that we are called
upon to discharge, but 1T is duty which
we owe to ourselves, to our country, to
our prosecuted fellow Christians, and
to our God.
The recent Turkish massacres of Ar
menian Christians are 50 horrible and
so internal that they have aroused the
Indignation of the whole Christian
world They cry to heaven for ven
geance, and that these cries against
humanity will be avenged, and that,
sooner or later, the Turks will reap a
righteous retribution, we need not have
the slightest doubt. Thus far, the sub
lime porte has, by evasion and by
brazen denial of the charges brought
against it, escaped the punishment it
so richly deserves. But, although the
Turk is u past master in the art of
evasion and denial, the time is not far
distant when he will be unmasked, and
when, in all his hideous depravity, he
will be- once more, exposed to the gaze
of the world.
1t Is not yet twenty years since
Turkey assumed an air of injured in
nocence, and stoutly denied her guilt,
when she was charged with the Bull
garian atrocities. But the whole world
knows that she was guilty; and the
penalty she then paid for her cruel
crimes was the subdivision of part of
her territory 1t was far too light a
punishment. That would have been a
good time to carve up Turkey, and
divide it among the adjoining Chris
tian nations; and if England had lifted
up her voice, at that time, as she ought
to have done; if she had used her power
against Turkey, as she should have
done, she could have put an end to
Turkish tyranny, and Turkish injus-
tice, and Turkish atrocities for ever.
Beacon sricld's Course OF Action.
But Beaconsfeld was prime minister
of England then, and his sympathies
were with the Turks instead of the
Christians. If, at that time, the prime
minister had been Gladstone instead OF
BeaconSfield we would not be here to-
night, to utter an indignant protest
against the maSsacreS of the Christians
of Armenia History Is repeating itself
The Turk of today is no improvement
upon the Turk of 1875. The Armenian
atrocities are quite as barbarous and
quite as brutal as were the Bulgarian
atrocities. The cynical sneers and
odious jokes of Disraeli when he acted
as an apologist for the Turk in Bull
garia. find a parallel in the sneers and
denials of those who are now acting
as If they We're the subsidized agents
and apologists for the Turk in Armenia
If an English Jew and his Tory ad-
mirers could not deceive Christendom
then neither can Spanish Jew and
his Tory sympathizers deceive Chris
tendon now. Although Disraeli
sneered and joked, said that the Bull
garian atrocities We're only coffee
house babble,' yet he could not sup
press the hot Indignation of Christian
England. The whole nation, under the
lead of the immortal Gladstone, rose
up as one man and denounced the Turk
and demanded, for the Bulgarians, rep
aration and reform Not only was the
heart of England stirred to it's depths,
but all Christendom was thrilled as
the Grand Old Man, day after day
poured out his fiery Indignation upon
the head of THE Unspeakable Turk
He demanded in the name of justice
in the name of humanity, in the name
of England, and in the name OF
Christendom that the Ottoman reign in
Bulgaria must stop, and that, hence
forth, Bulgaria as well as Bosnia and
Montenegro and Herzegovina must be
put beyond the reach of Turkish ty-
ranny. This demand was, in measure,
conceded by the treaty of Berlin. But
the character of the Turk was not
changed. The leopard kept his spots
The Turk was still a Turk-the same
in his brutal nature, the same in his
envenomed feelings and the same in
his murderous hatred toward Chris
tians-and this fad accounts for the
Armenian atrocities.
The brazen impudence of the sublime
porte, you must have noticed only a
few days ago, in requesting England to
repudiate the utterance of Mr.. Glad
stone in respect of the Armenian atroci-
ties. But England has not complied
with that request. England knows the
Turk, and England knows that Glad
stone has told the truth, and that ne
has voiced the feelings of the English
nation.
He Is a Mcrciful Man.
Mr.. Gladstones opposition to the
Turk is easily explained. Mr.. Glad
stone is a merciful man and full OF
tenderness, but the tender mercies OF
the Turk are cruelty. Mr.. Gladstone
believes in civil and religious liberty
the Turk believes in civil and religious
slavery. Gladstone loves peace, the
| Turk delights in war. Gladstone be-
lieves in progress; the Turk has nC
use for progress. There Is no such
| need as progress in his social or polt
| ical dictionary. But "above and be-
| yond and before all else, Mr.. Gladstone
| Is Christian" and as in the case of the
| Bulgarian atrocities, so, now, he sees
| the great anti-Christian power stand
| ing where 1t ought not, in one of the
| fairest provinces of Christendom, ant
| stained with the record of odious cruel
| ty, practiced through long centuries, OF
| it's defenceless subjects, who have beer
worshippers of Jesus Christ. This /:
the key to the secret of his opposition
to Turkish tyranny. He has told the
truth about Turkey, and he is not goinf
to recant, nor will England ask him to
apologize to Turkey.
| / have seen no demand or reques
from the sublime porte asking tn,
United States to repudiate the utter
ances of any of our great men touchint
the Armenian atrocities. ! am not pre-
pared to say that If such demand wer,
made, it would not be complied will
| Immediately. Certainly, we have n,
reason, as nation, to be proud of ou
attitude toward this burning question
| Our request that Mr.. Jewett, one o
our consuls, be allowed to accompan,
the commission that has been ap
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