The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-31
Christianity. Defender. ceb.ured.


Recently. when a few English mission
aries in China were killed by a. mob OF
fanaticaI Chinese. the English government
at once demanded reparation from the
Chinese government English war vessels
were sent 10 China and the English min
lister to China delivered an ulumatum
20 that government China understood
there would be war unless the ultimatum
was complied with, and therefore she had
the offending Chinese fanatics arrested,
tried and punished. The Outrages ceased.
In our dispatches yesterday there was
presented a graphic and heart-rending
picture Of the outrages TO which the
Christians Of the Turkish empire have
been ubjected-outmges which in num-
Der and fendishness are greater than
the world has ever before known. and
what has England and the other Chris
tion powers Of Europe done TO prevent
them, or to hold the Turkish government
responsible for them? Have they done
anything? 1t is tHue they have made
feeble protests and have sent a few war
ships to Constantinople. but they have
done nothing practically to cause the
Turkish government to check the out
RACES. The work of exterminating the
Christian Armenians has been continued,
just as if the Christian powers had made
no protest The Turkish government has
made promises to protect its Christian
subjects, but has not kept them.
1t is said that more than sixty thousand
Christian Armenians have been killed.
Many of them. especially the women,
were subject to the most horrible treat
ment. Hundreds of thousands of Arme-
mans have been robbed of all of their
possessions and driven from their homes
and left to die of starvation. And the
terrible work of determination is still go
ing on.
1t is not strange therefore, that the
people of Europe and this country are
condemning the Christian powers of Eu-
rope for their indifference to the appeals
of the Christians of Turkey. Public senti-
ment in all Christian countries is crys-
talizing against the heartless and coward
ly policy the Christian powers OF Europe
are pursuing. The war that the Turks
are waging against the Armenians is,
in fact, a religious war. The indifference
of the Christian powers to the sufferngs
of the Armenian Christians is calculated
to raise a doubt as to whether Christian
peoples are willing to make as great sac
rifces for their religion as the Moslems
are for theirs. The selfshness of
England and the other Christian powers
of Europe is well understood by the
Turks They know that as long as these
powers have little to gain and much to
lose by interfering in behalf of the Ar
menians Turkey can pursue her policy of
crushing out the Christian religion within
her borders with comparative impunity.
4 Bond Issue.
1t is stated very positively that the
President is preparing for a bond issue,
and that the issue win probably be $780,,
OO1,O0O The bonds will be per cent.
bonds, and will be sold for gold. The
President has announced on more than
one occasion that he will maintain the
integrity of the currency at any cost,
and there is no doubt that he will stand
by that announcement.
The republican leaders pretend to be-
lieve that the President mas not dealt
with them fairly They say that in his
financial message, calling on congress for
a remedy for the financial troubles of the
treasury, he said:
ar o1x oh
judgment approves. l deTire, however, TO
assure the congress that l am prepared
to cooperate with chem in perfecting any
other measure promising thorough and
practical relief, and that l Will gladly
labor with them in every patriotic en-
deavor to further the interests and guard
the welfare of our countrymen, whom in
our respective places of duty we have UNI
dertaken to serve"
They point to this expression of his
willingness to join. with them in doing
whatever is necessary to be done for the
relief of the treasury and declare that
he is preparing for bond issue, notwith-
standing the fact that congress has re-
manned in session during the holidays
and one branch of it has passed two bills
in response to his call for financial legis-
lation.
What nonsense is it for the republican
leaders to undertake to mislead the coun-
try by such talk. They know very well
that the President has not departed In
the least from what he said in his mess
age. He said he would cooperate with
congress in perfecting any measure that
promised thorough and practical relief.
The House has passed no such measure
and it has done all it intends to do. 1t
has passed bills that would not give the
treasury relief, as the republican leaders
very well know. They knew the bills
We're not the kind of legislation wanted
when they passed them, but they hoped
the country would give the republican
party credit for promptly coming to the
treasurys relief at the Presidents re-
quest They also know that the bills the
House passed have no chance of passing
the Senate. Therefore they have no
room to complain that the President has
not kept faith with them. The truth is
they have not kept faith wifi the coun>
try, because by remaining in session dur
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