Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-10
'IELEGRAPHIC.
ADDRESS ON TURKEY.
R,,,b,y Makes a Speech and E1-
plains tho Situation.
ENGLAND AFRAID 10 ISrrRyrSr.
mi, ,hs pir cl Necessity Gould Justify
a War In ii,half Of lhe
,ArmcBlals.

FprSuuHdu, Oct e.-The Empire
ne.,sf hsrs wau packed with auditors
tonlrht to listen to the earl Of Rose
bsfy, retiring leader OF the liberal
PATTY.
Tso earl was pale with suppressed
feeling whtn he arose TO make his all
dfas. lie said In parl that he had
resigned because he could mol sacrifice
national inter,ss 10 personal amb.
lion. lie welcomed the national agi.
ntlsu In Great Britain on behalf Of
Armenia bocauto II would olnvincc
iettign governments OF Great Bfitain's
unsoltish integrity anu would strength.
an tue hands Of tue government. But
Inc present agitation, Lord 10 cbcfy
tainted cut, differed Tom All. ulal.
,iobsis Bulgarian agitation. Then
Great Britain was supported by Rus.
ts. He added. "NnW we have HIs.
sla and her armies against uf. Rus-
si1Js declarations on this point ale
absolutely conclusive.
HAiof,0yer, then we had 10 force the
bands Of All unwilling government,
while now the government 10 animate
~ tho same Wishce Ne ouu." Thoy
rosrsfcd uupfintubie details, the
sgsaket faiI, VI ofimoa aud horrors
tiat surpassed all ho had ever read of.
By advice % tho powera they had nfst
doubted thoau muisaorts, hut the more
recent C0uBiantiuupls masaaofts male
II Impossible 10 deny them.
In dealing with tho various remedies
rr5posed TO settle the eastern question,
III lofdahip tni1 tho uiore deposition
Of the sultan would DO no rtmsoy, M
the syalum aud not the mau must bo
tack ID.
Regarding the proposal 10 place tho
Dafianuilrs Ia the hands Of Russia,
Lord RoanbcTT pointed out that neither
Of thee. was Great BritaiH's 20 dispose
Of, aud Rusiia'a methods, hu SAIL,
were not 90 idcai as 10 warrant US ~
acqulescing. He differed with Mt.
uladslonu's proposal 10 cut Oh dipl0.
matte relations with Turkey. The
speaker even deprecated tho pToporai
Of such a thing, a. II would not only
deIrive Great Britain OF all her lu.
We luiO war, ans llb failure would leave
the public humiliailOn Of ooniCssing
Impotence.
The speaker addict al canno,
Agtto with Sit. GiadBlone that tho
poaibility OF war 10 a phan,Esm. My
knoNiedRe u u very recent time was
tLsi n fixed anu rrsDiuto agreement
existed ot all or nearly all the powers
10 forcibly resist any siBgie.hunded
Intervention ny England IN Eastern
Affairs. esfnestiy protest against n
policy Involving the h0froTa OF n
European war, preceded, as this Ger.
tainly would be, by the sxtUimina-
lion OF tho very Afmonians In whose
behalf IL would DO wagei.
"5uch war would transcend
twenty Fiodden Ficldg, an1 tue
ghasiiy phantom OF the death angel
which l0gond Gays appeared over
Edinburgh on the eve vi tho battle OF
Flodden would appear TO every hamlet,
village ana town VI ,he Kingdom, -
summon tue Hover Of your youth and
manhood 10 sacrifice their liycs Ia u
European colnagratl0n. Any minis.
tor engaging Ia tucn n war, excep
from tue direct necessity, would 10 u
criminal Ia his country"
EularEing iuriher up9on this topic,
LORD Rosehofy eKpfeysed the opinion
that tho British colonies would take
tue aAmo Wow VI II Ne does the United
States, which, no aided, although
willing to luin in diplomatic acton
would depTeease inyoking the afbitfu
mtnt Of ths swOri on n question Nc
directly conoorning their vital In
ttfes'e.
Augustine DirIolle, mtmhef OF PAT
llameut for the WeaI division OF tn
Fife, then moved u resolution request