The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-01
JOHN BULLS POLICY
sPEy;CH BY LORD SALISBURY on
QUESTIONS OF IMPORTANCE.
He Says Britain Advocates the Monroe
Doctrine. but Only as President
Monroe Understood 1t.
NO HOPE FOR ARMENIANS
NONE OF THE POWERS WISH TO IN
TERFERE WITH TURKEY.
They Believe IL Abdul Hamid Is Given
Time He VIII Restore order I'm
the Ottoman Empire.
BRITAIN CANNOT ACT ALONE
SHE MIGHT COPE WITH FIVE OR SIX
sULTANs on THE SEA,
But, His LOrdship Says, She Does Not
POSSESS Enough Troops to Occupy
Fanatica1 Turkey.
They Believe IL Abdul Hamfd Is Given
Time He VIII Restore Order I'm
the Ottoman Empire.
BRITAIN CANNOT ACT ALONE
SHE MIGHT COPE WITH FIVE OR SIX
sULTANs Or THE SEA,
but. His Lordship Says, She Does Not
Possess Enough Troops to Occupy
Fanatfca1 Turkey.

LONDON. Jan. 31-The banquet of the
Nonconformist Union Association, at the
Hote, Metropole, tonight, was the occa-
sion for an address by the Marquis Of Sal
isbury, Prime Minister and Secretary or
State for Foreign Affairs. In he course
of his remarks he said with regard 10
Venezuela: II have been held up rs me
denouncer of the Monroe doctrine AS a
matter of fact, although the Monroe ooc-
trine is no part of international law. my
dispatch to Mr.. Olney, the Secretary of
State Of the United States, supported IL as
a rule of policy in the strongest and most
distinct terms. But when l stated in that
dispatch, and reiterate now, that as n rule
of policy, we are advocates of the Monroe
doctrine. we mean the Monroe doctrine as
President Monroe understood 1t. <Cheers)
In that sense you will not find any more
convinced supporters than are
Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly 10
the Armenian question, and he reproached
the religious communities with laboring
under a mistake when they supposed that
England had bound herself to succor the
Armenians, which means to go to war with
the Sultan in order to force him to govern
the Armenians well. The Berlin treaty,
Lord Salisbury said. merely bound the
signatory powers that IL the Sultan p-omIl-
gated certain reforms they would watch
over the execution OF these reforms; nothing
more He did not think any one could
interpret that as an understanding to go
to war. AS to Cyprus, Lord Salisbury con-
tinued, 1t contains no trace of an under
taking to interfere in behalf of the sub
jects of the Sultan. II was concerned in
the drafting of boths these conventions"
lord Salisbury said,' land nothing would
have induced me to pledge my country to
such a desperate undertaking."
The speaker reminded his hearers that
the reforms which the Sultan had recently
accepted, although good reforms, could
not be expected to produce good govern
ment in two months. They require time
to work out" the speaker went on to say.
''They would require time in civilized
community, and much more so in L saw
age and fanatical community. / nope they
will have beneicent effect as time pro-
crosses" Lord Salisbury then continued
by saying: Meantime, by spreading among
the Turks the feeling that their dominion
was threatened, these reforms have, un-
fortunately, led to the perpetration of hor-
rors which can only be compared with the
days of Gonsha Khan and Tamerlane.
am aware that many influential people
aver that this was done by the Sultan and
his government with set purpose My cwn
opinion is that the Sutan's government IS
weak, wretched. impotent and powerless;
but it is a dream to imagine that he or
dered the preparation Of those crueties
In my judgment there Is no ground for
thinking so. 1t was race faction, and no
cred faction, driven to the highest point
in their most corrupt and horrible form
which brought on the wretched .Armen;ans
these terrible sufferings.
WHY BRITAIN DIDN'T INTERFERE.
eff you ask why we have not interfered
I can only answer for England that We
could have threatened what 1 may call an
noyances in the selling Of customs here
and there; but when you are dealing with
the rising of whole fanatical population
against a population with whom they have
been at bitter enmity for ages and who are
situated in mountains far removed from the
seashore, you are deceiving yourselves If
you imagine that England's arm, long as
it is, could have done anything in mitiga-
ton. Nothing but military occupation could
have done 1t, and England does not possess
the power of military occupation at that
distance.
"Mr. Gladstone wrote letter that Eng
land could cope with five or six Turkeys
That was a most i'll judged and rash as
sertion. If the Sultan would meet us on
the open sea undoubtedly we could cope
with five six Sultans, but 1t is not worth
arguing the possibility of England occupy
ing these inaccessible provinces. am not
bound to answer the question why Europe
did not interfere. / say confidently that
none of the powers wished to interfere and
/ believe their view Is that with patience
the Sultan's prestige. which is the only
power left in the country, will ultimately
re-establsh order and allow industry and
commerce to take their usual secure course.
That is their view. and IL Is our duty to
give the Sultan time. 1t is not for me to
pass judgment on that view, but no other
remedy mas been suggested. 1t is some en-
couragement to find that already some de-
gree of order Is being restored. If you do
not act with the great powers you must
| act against them and produce calamities
far more awful and terrible than the Ar
menian atrocities"
In conclusion Lord Salisbury referred to
the recent patriotic demonstrations in the
colonies in the face Of the threatened
foreign complication and said: at care not
| how much we are isolated IL we are united.
| An example has been set which will shed a
| beneficent light on the latest generations
| Of Englishmen." AS he finished his address
, and resumed his seat he was greeted with
loud and prolonged cheers.
] Lord Salisbury. the Lord Chancellor, Lord
| George Hamilton. Secretary of State for
India. Mr.. Ritchie, president of the Board
of Trade. and other members of the gov
ernment were also guests of the associa-
| ton.
| Lord Salisbury at the opening of his
speech referred to the recent Transvaal
crisis as throwing lurid light on what
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