The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-03-19
VIDFACING SIX G0LIATHS
ENGLAND'S GRAND OLD MAYS DE-
 FENCE OF GREECE.

Russia and Germany Are Against Free- dom, but England Should Not be Bound to Their Apron strings-Greece Should be Upheld in It's Brave Stand Against
 the Ottoman Empire.
 London, March 1S---Under the title of '"The Eastern Crisis" sixteen page pamphlet by MT. Gladstone will be is- sued tomorrow. The pamphlet is i'll the form of a letter from MT. Gladstone addressed to the Duke of Westminster in which the ex-premier proceeds to say:
 | Events in crowds have been occurring in the east at short intervals for the past | two years of such nature as to stir | our common humanity to it's innermosr receSses and to lodge an appeal from | official to personal conscience. Until | the most recent dates these transac- | tionS have seemed to awaken no echo 1 save in England, but now light has | flashed upon western Europe and an uneasy consciousness that nations as well as cabinets are concerned has talk en strong hold upon the public mind. | Later maSsacres in Armenia have oc- cured upon scale of intensity and in a diversity of their wickedness beyond l all modern, if not all historical ex- l perience. All this has been done un- | der the eye of the six great powers | thata represented at the porte by arh- bassadors who thought their feeble ver- biage a sufficient counterpoise to in-, struments of death, shame and torture. provided that in framing it they all | chimed in with one another"
 The letter then goes on to review the eastern question since 1876. MT. Clad stone recalls the fact that his ministry in 1880 organized European concert to procure the fulfillment of the treaty of 1878 in regard to Montenegro and Greece. The forces of moral suasion had been exhausted and a squadron of l warships of the six powers assembled l on the Montenegrin or Albanian coast. It was soon found that to several pow | CTS "concert of Europe" meant toy demonstrations which were not intend- ed pass for reality. We did not waste any time to galvariize the corpse into life" MT. Gladstone continues, ''but | framed plan for the seizure of an im- | portant port of the sultan's dominions. We found as our principal support the wise and brave Alexander 1T, who then reigned in Russia. The effect was per- l feet. There was no war in Europe, though this bugbear would doubtless have been used had our proceedings passed beyond privacy. Our plan be- came known to the sultan and without a single difficulty Montenegro obtained her present considerable extension and Thessaly was added to Greece later
 ''It is time to speak with freedoms At this moment two great states with a European population of 15OO0O,000 are under the government of two young men, each bearing the title of emperor. one wholly without knowledge or expe- rience, and the other having only such knowledge and experience, in truth limited enough, as have excited much astonishment and some consternation when an inkling of them has been giv- en to the world. In the concert of the powers these powers fight steadily against freedom. But why is our gov- ernment pinned to their apron strings?"
 MT. Gladstone then reviews the his- tory of Greece and Crete, and says:
 we nave UeIUIG us d 0dSiu ldClllsJ six Goliaths."
 He argues that Ottoman rule in Crete is a thing of yesterday, but Crete was Lart of Greece and the Cretan people
 were part of the Greek people three thousand years ago. "Nor have their
 moral and human ties ever broken or relaxed" he says, land years and cen- turies will come when this bad dream of Ottoman dominion has passed from Europe that the union will still subsist.
 Greece by her bold action" MT. Glad-' stone continues, has conferred a great service upon Europe. She has made it impossible to falter over this question as we faltered in Armenia.
 The nations of Europe are in various
 stages of their training, but do not
 believe it is the European people whose
 judgment will tolerate the punishment of Greece for the good deed she recent ly performed. Certainly 1t would not
 be the French who so largely contrib uted to the foundation of the Kingdom.
 nor would it be the Italians who are
 so mindful of what their fathers have
 undergone, and least of all, the Eng Iish, who, if the road were open to them
 by the dissolution of parliament, would
 show how they are minded by return- ing parliament which upon this ques.
 tion would speak with unanimity."