The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-01
WEARY OF TURKEY
State Department Urged to r,k. VI
Action.

Shhoh
The empire of Turkey has. i. -5au.
ion of a very large number Of Auorin'.
lived long enough" 1t WAS. say, -, NJ
ington correspondent. an ofioi1, of 81
State Department who spoke. az t,o s.,,.
time pointing to Il pile of ~,ettar. f,.,
opened and read. Then he ,ont;,naT'
Il judge from letters coming eya-y ,i,,
from all parts of the country urging ne =,
take vigorous steps to put an nd ~ ,Lo
Turkish outragrs and prescribing tho do
rhronement Of the Sultan a> the best ,nd
busiest and promptest means - tha. e,d
Some of our correspondents 90 .nto oLaL.
crate detail as to the exact method -
going about it. One in particular nav
interest Won. Were we to follow IL ONT n,
President would send our Whit sdusdrn,
10 Turkish waters. While the feet wason
the way our Minister at ST. PetershYry
would call on the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs and propose TO him thar
inaSmuch as Russia could not. under n.
treaty which now binds The Eurono,,
powers. dethrone the Sultan. and fur,h.r
as Russia wants Constantinop'e. Pu>si,
should order her Black Sea and NaJ;,ar.
ranean fleets as near Constantinonln as
practicable under the said treaty. and Then
our White squadron would steam With,
Smelling distance of the city and ,pan fr.
till the Sultan had abdicared and The
Government was wiped out. The Russian
fleets would keep close to the White squad.
ron and thereby let it be known 70 IN,
other powers that we had the sanction nf
the Car for what we were doing. Than
would prevent any nation but Turkey in.
fnpFnrinn with - Nba, . III
tured the city. and put The officials ,,
fight. we would announce that we had A..
complished our mission. and giving IN.
tip 10 the Russian admiral. quietly with
draw. The downfall of the Turkish Gov.
would warrant Russia Selling
the city. and this she could DO by landing
her troops from her fleets and taking
prompt possession. The White squadrnu
could remain till everything had quie,,d
down and without our saying a word .c,
the other nations take it for granted that
we hOuld recognize Russia's right to Con
stantinople. to which she has. our CORE
spondent insists. an u%nbounded right over
other nations. Then we could recall our
squadron, the Turkish empire outside
Constantinople would be ut the mercy
of the other pOwers. and they might do
with it as they pleased for all we cared.
by such a coup, as the correspondent putS
ii. we would rid the world of a roya! MUIR
derer. save the lives of thousands n1n IN
danger of the Turkish wrath. make our
selves solid with the Christian wor j. and
then mote the comprehensive mind of ti.>
statesman our squadron could come bal
by way of Cuba. kick the butcher We}-
Ter off the island. recognize the indapend-
ence of Cuba, whip Spain Il she vim
percd. and then come home and resume it,.
drill in fleet evolution"
The official. continuing. said that l%-,,"r>
were still coming in urging acton in ne
half of cuba and that every fresh Outrage
reported gave an impetus 10 this c1r;c-
spondence. Some of the letters contain
severe criticism of the department FOR u,t
the Cuban revolutionists and the unpro-
tected Christians in Turkey. The horrible
butchery of the newspaper correspondent
by the Spanish soldiers in Cuba has called
forth a very decided expression Of IN
tense feeling on the part of the letter wit
ing part of the people and IA demand THAI
prompt measures be employed % bring
Spain TO reparation. In reply 20 my i9-
luiry AS To what the department IS doing
with regard to both Turkey and Cuba. the
official said automatically tia; if Was
doing everything which the rights Il
American interests demanded and intcl.
national law permitted.