The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-26

rson 20 Greece, Do what you will BY TIRE
u.lqAt q. h~sste power a mas a man
for a. that snd IN respect 70 everything
tAzt makes a man 20 - man. every
Creian = Greek ottoman rue n Crete
part OF Greece the CrefaE people % the
Greek people az least 8nos years ago. nor
have the moral ana human ties between
ard IN tha long years and centuries 10
come. when this bad dream % Ottoman
dominion snzll have passed away from
Europe, thar union VIII SIN suoSsSt AID
cannot bur prevail, as long as a human
heart heats IN a human bosom.
In the midst % high and seis-sacri-
and people have shown their good sense
IN pleading that the sense OF the people
% Crete, not the mcrsntary ard partial
sense. bur that which Is deliberate and
general shall be considered The Greeks
have placed themselves upon a ground
OF understandable strength They are quite
stract objection 10 the suzerainty o. Tir-
key u 81 so plsases the powers Why
should not Crete by ANONYMOUSLY united
% Greeee and Yet not detached in theory
from the body % Ire Ottoman empIre7
Such an arrangement would rot be with
oft example Bosnia and Herzsg ovina are
administered By Austria. but I tpprehend
that they have never been formally sew
cred from the OVerlordshlp OF the sultan.
Cyprus IS similarly administered by Great
Britain. and European history Is fun OF
eighty in one territory has been united
with secondary or subordinate lordship
in another. / quote the case OF Cyprus
as a precedent. and I apprehend thar so
far ft is good while | subioin the salts
faction / should feel. were IL granted me
before the close OF my long hfe 70 see the
population OF that Hellenic island placed
By friendly ARRANGEMENT in organic rela-
tens with their brethren OF the kingdom
and OF Crete
But in thus indicating a possible soIu-
/ claim anrrHr4fN
clude no other alternative compatible with
the principles which have been established
hy the situation. These I take to be that
by the testimony alike OF living authority
ard Of facts. Turkish rule In Crete exists
only as shadow OF the past and has no
place In the future. and that there Is no
provisions on behalf OF the minority so
competent or so well entitled 10 define a
prospective position for the people as that
Further. 1t remains to be recognized
that. az the present tuncture, Greece.
whom some seem disposed 10 treat as a
criminal and dlsturber has by her bold
action conferred a great service upon Eu-
rope. She has made II impossible 10 palter
with this question as We paltered with the
has exrieated IL from the rneshes of
diplomacy and placed IL on the order OF
the day for deiinitive solution. can re-
member no case in which so small state
has conferred so great benefit
Don't Talk of Coercing Greece.
As TO the notion that Greece is 10 be
coerced and punished. / hardly like 10
sully the page on which / write by the
mention OF an alternative so detestabie
IL would be about sc rational TO transport
the Greek nation who are in this as one
man. 10 Siberia by what, I believe. Is
called an administrative order II any
one has such scheme OF policy TO pro-
pose / advise his proposing IL anywhere
rather than in England.
Let il he borne in mind that In this
unhappy business all along under the
cover Of the concert OF Europe power
and speech have been the monopoly OF
the governments and their organs while
the people have been shut out Give us
at length both light and air. The nations
OF Europe are in very various stages OF
their training. but / do not believe there
Is European people whose judgment
could IL be had. would ordain or tolerate
the fnhiction OF punishment unon Greece
for the good deed she has recently per-
formed. Certainly II would not be the
French, VINO 80 largely contributed 10 the
foundation OF the kingdom. nor the Ital-
ians. stu so mindful OF what they and
their fathers have undergone; and least
OF all, | viii say. the English 10 whom
the air OF freedom Is the very breath OF
their nostrils. who have already shown In
every way open to them how they are
minded. and who. were the road now laid
open TO them by A dissolution OF parlia-
ment, would show II by returning a rar-
lament which upon that question would
speak with unanimify."