St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-27

ity. The speech of Mr. Carter. which
he had taken such pains to notify the
public that he would make, in answer
to those who criticised him for vot-
ing against the consideration Of the
tariff bill, does not contain anything
worthy of such advertisement. It is
very tame and spiritless affair. AS
far as it means anything, it seems to
argue that Mr.. Carter is displeased be-
cause the soundness of Mr.. Cleveiand's
views on certain public questions had
commended them to some of the less
obtuse representatives of the Repub-
lican party in congress.
What he really means to say.
but has not the courage to, is
that free silver is logically a part
of the protective system. and
that it's friends are now prepared
part of any Republican tariff bill that
is to have their support. But even
when he took his courage in both
hands, he got no further in this than
to skirmish around the word "bimeta[
lism," with which he covers the plan
of himself and others to force silver
monometallism upon the United States.
Not even circumstances can ever
make of Senator Carter anything but
a very small man. Mr. Teller, rising
in the senate and declaring his views
with dignity and force, although on
the wrong side of the case, is a much
more commanding and honorable fig
ure. Really Mr.. Carriers title to pub
lie prominence rests solely upon his
assumption of the role Of the cat
with cream can persuade to come back.
THE WOLVES REPORT.
1t needed only the report which the
special comr1ission sent out by the
sulto.n's government 60 make an al
legged investigation of Armenian af-
fairs have sent in to complete the
bloody farce that the sultan and his
menials have played in the presence
Of the civilized world. These tools of
his, in full sympathy, as every Moslem
is, with what has been done in Ar
menia, declared that the troubles there
have resulted, without exception, from
seditious uprisings by the Armenians
themselves. The Turks in various
cities where murder and Iooting have
their report, peaceable and gentle peo-
pie who took arms only in self-de-
Tense when the blood-thirsty Armen-
ians threatened to overthrow the gov
property Of all who were not in sym
pathy with them. These men have
not even the ordinary craft of their
kind. They make clean job Of it.
shadow of blame to be reflected upon
Turkish authorities. In no instance
have they been the aggressors. All
these uprisings were. of Armenian Or
igin, and thea ferecious determination
of the Christian tossexterminate the
Moslem is the foundation Of all that
has occurred. How it has happened
that in every instance it Is the Ar
they do not explain. AS a rule, peo-
pie who act in self-defense strictly
suffer most before they are goaded to
the point of resistance. In this case
the aggressive Armenians are, singu-
larly enough, the only ones who have
received injury.
The report, of course, is preposterous
on it's face. 1t is the old story of the
wolf who picked a quarrel with the
lamb because the latter, by drinking
out of the stream lower down, had
rolled the water and made it unfit for
the wolf to drink, The Turkish COM
missioners have followed out the in
structions. received before they began
their .farcical tour through Armenia.
They haveS not taken the trouble to
give their report even the semblance
of verify, just as in dealing with the
people of the different cities which
they have visited they were at no
pains to conceal their real sentiments.
and declared that what they had won
by blood they would hold by blood
at any cost that might be necessary.
This ridiculous and insulting inquiry
is the sole product of European inter-
vention in the affairs of Armenia. It
is perfectly consistent with the atti-
tude and action of Turkey throughout.
She fixed her policy and adheres to it
to the letter with fine contempt of
all other nations, which no one can
deny that they have earned.
The situation has at least the merit
Of clearness. There will be no relief
for Armenia, there will be no cessa-
ton of atrocities there, there will be
no relaxation of the iron rule of MIR
der and rapine, until the moral sense
OF Europe has SO far revolted as to
apply the only corrective; which lies at
the lannon's mouth. Turkey and the
Turk cannot be reformed. They are
not amenable to persuasion or to
threats They can be swept off the
face of the earth, or put under the
strictest control of civilized foreign
power, shorn Of their liberty to op-
press, and permitted to live on condi-
ton of learning something of the laws
of living in an enlightened age. That
is the only remedy The abolition of
the Turkish government as a govern
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