The herald., 1897-03-24
GOD OR MAMMoN IN THE EAST

1t seems passing strange that the tenn
tried beyond endurance by the pusillani-
NOUS, even craven, policy that the Sails
bury ministry has set for its ediflcation
in Eastern Europe. Such an ediflcation,
save the mark, as might be calculated to
cause the crusaders to turn in their
graves and their souls cry out that their
dust may be removed from disgraced
land The same blood courses through
the veins of Englishmen today and they
should shudder at the CHASTITY spectacle
of national degradation to which Lord
Salisbury and his ministry have given
consent
"Crete is to be partially freed" Such
is the pretentious excuse beneath which
the powers are covering THE concert
of Europe has resolved upon a compro-
mise" A compromise with what? The
devilish tyrant, the arch-fiend, whose
barbarous inhumanity must always be
not only menace to the peace of Europe
but a vile disgrace to the civilization of
the whole world.
"The immense dangers of the situa-
tion'' are palpable enough, but time was
and for other things too-did not count
the cost.
The risk Is unmistakable. The single
action of any Of the great powers would
almost to certainty put the whole con-
tinent in flames. But the restraining in
fluence has not been so much the acute
fear of a gigantic and terrible war, in
itself, as the consequences of "a great
financial crash"
The same hand that restrained Eng
land or any of the great European pow
ers from interference with "the un-
speakabIe Turk in his mutilation OF
Armenans is today holding them back
from allying themselves with justice and
right.
Greece has sacrificed herself for a no
BILE cause and may be called upon to give
up her life blood for what she knows to
be just and right. Instead of the moral
and physical assistance that the gallant
little power so sorely needs, she is to be
sent to a corner like naughty and dis
graced child.
Some of the English journals are veil
ing the national obloquy beneath hy.
pocrisy and an endeavor to shift the
blame. The London Spectator in an at
tempt to excuye the British government
from going to war alone" says:
1T must not be forgotten, however
that Lord Salisbury had most difficult
! cards to play, and that the French gov
ernment, though most friendly to Greece
is hampered not only by its alliance with
Russia, but by extreme pressure from
leading financiers. They are loaded
with Spanish stocks, Turkish stocks
Russian stocks, and masses of South
African mining shares, and if war be-
tween Greece and Turkey were once de-
clared there would be a crash such as
has not been seen since Black Friday
Why the French government is so NOR
bidly sensitive to financial threats we
do not clearly understand; but it is, and
statesmen who want its assistance must
perforce take the fact into account"
Can the British government rise in its
might and say that it is not the same
''eensitiveness to financial threats
which is rendering its arm palsed and
impotent?
Those same millions of Turkish bonds
the British interest in which prevented
the punishment of the Armenian atroci
ties. are today responsible for the miser.
able abortion of European power wher
it should be put forth to sustain tn,
right and defeat the wrong.
1t is again passing strange that Eng