Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-25
ON Mr.. GLADSTONE.
Ms Address at Liverpool Seen From
Various Points Of View.
cOloRLrss PRESS CRITICISM.


LONDON, Sept. 25.-The editorials In
tho morning papers on Mr.. GladsIono's
mech are rather colorloss. The liberal
organs lavish praise upon II, while the
conservative papers follow the Times
line Of criticism. The standard icon.
nrvative) says;
"Nover q greater responsibility rest
oil upon a statesman than that upon
Lord Salisbury. Happily MT. Glad.
stone appears to share that conviction"
WIRED To coStTAsTIsoPLE
The Turkish Embassy hers has toe.
Rtaphed Mr. Glaustone's speech doliv.
sfed yesterday at Liverpool verbatim
10 the Porte.
COMMENT ny THE TINES.
The Times says on the speech In m
editorial:
zine spectacle OF the veteran states.
man quitting his retirement TO plead
the cause OF the oppressed ~ well cal.
culAied 10 move the sympathy and al
nifatlon OF tho nation. The afd0r OF
MT. Gladstonn's feelings on this subject
sail the more striking, and signin.
cAnt IN the restraint Of this speech. We
cannot approve OF his aavice, Tor fup-
lure OF diplomatic relations which
would leave the sultan Tree for further
vengcance ON the Armenians seems
both dangerous anu q cowAfdly pol.
Icy"
IN DEFENSE on TURKEY.
NEW YOA!s, Sept. ga special 10
the Hsrail ifom Paris say. Tits hign
time that come protest was made
against the frenzy which has seized u
lAfgu portion OF tho British press AMI
the British public with Tegafi TO Turk.
ith nilairs. such arc the weignty
words Of Sir Eiiia Ashmead Bartlett,
NJ. r., In long uni Interesting letter
On the Armenian question.
SIT Ellis says, among other things:
40 far from thu Turks being tue IN.
human monsters depicted by Mr.. Glad.
stone and other fanatics vino are en-
deavoring by their frantic agitation 10
cry havoc and let slip the dogs OF war
IN Europe, tho TURKS have "a modefat.
Ing and restraining Influence Oh all
tho struggling aud warning non.Mus-
tulmnn races who but for Turkish con.
uol would have exteIminatod each
cher long ago"
Ihe great danger 10 the O,iomAa
empire. no an fms, In tbs risk OF an
outbreak OF religious anu raee fanati.
cism which statesmen have loTescen
aud have always striven to avert. Such
TAT aiicism was aroused by the Afme-
niAn outbreak 10 1895 and lite result
was an outbreak Of Jury that cost the
Iivea OF thousands OF ianocent AImu.
mans with all the attendant horrors
that were 70 dwelt upon la the lug.
lish pfess. Sir Ellis calls on the
fanaticAl nttocliy inongeis Ia England
TO rccollect that the lives OF millions OF
OFioman Christians are at the mercy OF
tue Mussulsmans OF Asia Minor, that
the queen OF England has seventy mil.
Hon VI Muttulman subjects Ia India
and that her mOsi i'm poTtant ally, the
tmif OF AfghanistAn, IN also q .iervsnt
Mountaineering; alec with one or two
tgcialihllc exceptions the Intelligent
ptess OF Europe Ia protesting against
tne "airocliy agitation In England.
"FoTtunateiy" he concludes, "thore
IL enough slalesmauthip ana common
tense lett among tbs nations and gov.
efnmenta OF Europe 10 curb the mai
ihDhtlcitm now raging IN England aud |
10 save the English government from
Icing dragged into It, vortex"