Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-24

carried 10 Europe Of lue uu, xsmpled
cruelties Of the Turks swelle1 the
number Of Phil-helleBic societies,
lhough tho governments did not
bulge. Ibraham Pasha, VINO com.
mauded the Turkish armies in the
MOrea, Toasted teat he hal CAPTURED
80 many young omen and ohildreG
that the ptice VI slaves In the markets
VI the Levhnt mai fallen 90 per cent,
and that every transport ihat cleateI
Tor COnstantiuOple bore On her maui.
lest ~ many bushels OF Greek ssrs.
At last Mr.. Canning, who was ever
laithful to tue Grosk cause, prevailed
upon Nicn0lss, tho new ear oil Russia,
and Chhtloe y France, 10 sign th,
treaty of July .. 1927. By that ins,gu
meut the sultan WAs warned th7t the
san urinary contest must end; ~
proved recnlc ltaut, aDu the battle Of
NaVarlnO, which accomplished Crack
Indepsndence, f.lluwod IN duo cUurs..
WuEua CO. hatiy describe tue trhus-
pntts OF Xuitput JOY with which the
event was received ny tue Eur penn
peoples.
hut monarobs d not waver Ia their
iuks. George ~, la his speech from
the throne, alIuuUI TO this Wet r. "a.
Of Wellington, VINO became primo
minister al the death OF MIR. Canning,
declared that the pfsIorvauOh Of Tur.
key was essential TO tbs maintguunc
OF he balance OF power. When Louie
Philippe asCenued me Flunoh turOug
he looked nskaace az Greece, auJ the
Germans were only rec uclled 10 its
Independence by the PROSPECT that o
Bavarau Lr!nCe would be cal cd ~
reign over 1t.
What thty could do to ihwaTt the
aims VI the Greek leaders while tue
war was going on, tho iulefs uau dUnu,
IN defiance OF the PIMA pleas OF the
GTeGks anu the uudlsguisUI sympathies
VI thelr own people,; a II wnGn tue
war was over their mischief mRkilg
Iid not cease. Greek demanded lnal
Ihessaly, Macedonia, Epirus AnI
Crete should form part vi the new
Kingdom, as these regions belonged TO
II geograpnicaIIy, anu were peoI lei by
tho ssmU race AZ the MAINLAND; ia
powers DISTINCTLY refused. 1huy
suited yuuDg Greece within linn l.
which did DOt permit II 10 draw u
national breath, anu then whsU lie
government made mistakes they
sueered that the Greeks were inca pabls
0. eoli-soverL ment.
Within twenty years afterwRr
Lord PRimerslOn, who was then re-
n ousible Tor foreign aHarsin England,
declared thai the refusal 10 grant to
Greece Its proper eNpaGai0n wAs the
mistake OF Tho century; the sam sem
tlmtnt was EXPIRE .seI IN much more
emphatic language by MIR. Gladstone
In 1877.
A nd yet the powers send notes to
Athens requiring the withdrawal Of
Greek troops from Crete, AMI fleets to
the Cfetan harbOrs to blockade ana
s,atve cut the people. Marinea ere
lauded TO menace the Creta e Tor pr
sumiug to demand rights which
Frenchmen and Germans mi Eng
lisbmen would fight to the Ue tn 10
secure for themselves.
The result depends on the grit which |
X ing George aud his subjects plesess
The tree OF Greek liberty must be
watered in blood. II the Greeks are
the legitimate prol eny OF the men
who fought at Thermopylae and al |
Marathon they viii accept the chal. |
lenge OF the powers and give them
battle, no mater what the odds, II |
10000 Englifhmen ami Frepchmen
anu Germans auu Italilns fight witt
900 Greeks the latter will be beaten
and most OF them viii be slAin. But
their sacrifice will secure Grecian VIC
tory.
There ia no city In western Eurlge
that would not burst into blaze OF
fury at the news that IA little Greek
army had been massacred by ChIis- |
tian troops supported by Cnis ian ne
lions and led by Chrietian ofiicerf. it |
would not be wholesome for Lo d |
Salisbury or NJ. Faure or $ gnor Rad
nj or the Emperor William to walk |
the streets on the night suDH Iuit IL |