The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-20


have come from responsible parties-tt ey
nave been based upon a martial knowledg gt
or the circumstance This is special
true ot the last thirteen months. | think
many. missionaries in the interior owe
their nves to his persistent efforts with
the Turkish government"
Saiisbury's Speech
BRIGHTON, Nov. 19.-Lord Salisbury
the prime minister, addressing the an.
nual conference Of the National Union o
conservative associations here today,
SAID, among other things:
Allow ne to say word In answer ia
very distinguished, distant correspond.
ent, II may term him so VINO REQ ne est ed
me to make statement in a speech to
the country. This correspondent 10 no
less a pers0f than the sultan of Turkey
Nothlhg would have induced me Co read
tnis august ...esEage here except the dis.
tinct com mmands of the senuer. In that
speech nt the Guiln nall on the occa sion
OF the lord mayors dinner. l expressed
tne opinion that l mad little confidence
that the reforms promised for the Turk
lsh empire would be carried into exeou-
ton. The sultan sends ne q MESA .
saying this statement has panied him
very much, as the carrying out OF this
reform is matter already decided upoL
bv him, anu further, that he is desirous
t.
he thea proceeds:
have already told my ministers
this, and so the only reason why Lord
Salisbury shuld thus throw doubts on
my good intentions must bs ne to the
intrlgues Of certain persons here. or else
1aIse statements must have been made to
Gauss such an opinion
The message thth proceeds. after
some inter ediary observations, i repeat
l Will execute these reforms. l will take
the papers containing them and see N.Y.
sell that every article is put into force.
rms is my earnest determination and
give you my word of honor. l wish Lord
SALISBURY to know this and | beg and
desire that his lOrdship. having conf
dence in these declarations, will make
another speech by virtue OF the friendly
feeling anu disposition he has for me ana
my country. snail await tue result OF
this with the greatest anxiety
Lord Salisbury then continued: "These
last words Will acquit ms OF any impro-
Priety IN what ! acknowledge to be
very unprecedented course: the reading
OF me SAGE OF this kind at public
meeting. l could not abstain from doing
what L have done without discourtesv to
the potentats from which this message is
issued, but of course 1t would not be
seemly for me to comment directly upon
those words. Great Britain forms part
So lar as 1T acts, to act with unanimity.
Some persons seem to think that We, the
people OF Great Britain, can dispose of
Al the decisions of the European powers.
This is crediting us with more influence
than we possess. Whatever is done must
be done with unanimity, and we can
only speak in behalf of one of the powers
which WILL concur, If the powers do co.u
cur. in any action which may ne taken.
will not admit that the responsibility
of any of the decisions taken rests en-
tirejy or MANLY on this county. The
responsibility is upon us ell, and upon
all the powers in common. All those
VINO have this responsibility must act
together, SO If there are others who can
not atree to act With the powers, those
others cannot have their own way. But
l am in nu wise desiious Of intim ating
that the slightest shade of disagreement
up tn this moment has arisen between
tIe powers"
Lord Salis bury tnen proceeded to extol
Rustem Pasha, who, he feared, would
not recover from his present Illness. Th
prime minister spoke especially of ths
former administration of Rustem Pasna
at L. banUn. He said he was convinced
if men like him had been placed IN
charge of tho districts where all the 9
horrors have occurred the conscience of
EurOpe would never have been raoked by
all these tales OF suffering and terror. II
'here bad been men around the sultan
like Rustem Pasha, present conditions
would not exist. The present problem
could not b. so vei by the external action
of the ad 'isng powers. This, Lor1 Sal
isbnry pronounced clumsy device at
best.
Continuing. he said the problem
should have been solved by the natural
opposition OF the working councillors of
an enlightened monarchy, acting through
etficien, and comrttent instrumt 5.
Lord Salisbury added II do not sse
who the men are that stand as the repre-
sertativcs of the Rustem Pasha type of
you to consider that the terrible Armen-
ian problem is qu te as much one of COM
petent men as of adequate law; that the
.nere writing OF new PROVISIONS upon
fresh decrees cannot supply the place OF
governors who know how, and what is
equally important, who have the courage
and integrity to do their duty | ha se
no doubt that the powers will do their
best, but do not imagine that Ieep-seated
disease in an empire can be cured by the
wave OF magician's wand. The results
OF long years of error will have to be paid
for, and cruel and inexorabie IS the law
that those will pay who wers not origin
ally guilty OF the offsnses. have taken
you fnr the moment in the accustomed
hsld OF foreign policy. Nothing but the
circumstances which 1 have explained
would rave persuaded me to do 80, for |
maintain that fore gn minister, above
all things, is bound 10 value and cherish
the virtue OF slencO.'
Lord Salisbury was granted an audience
oy the queen ut Windsor castle yesterday.
II is supposed the me sage To the sultan
affairs in the Turkish EN- pire
Das Dsen sent by the queen, and that
his was the subject under discussion.