The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-20
The legislature at Harrisburg needs
a ring master 1t is too skittish.
Gladstone to the Rescue!

The letter of Mr.. Gladstone to the
Duke of Westminster espousng the
cause of Greece and branding with the
seal of infamy the Concert Of the
powers to perpetuate the putrescent
sway of the Turk in Crete is by all odds
the most vigorous, timely and sgnifi-
cant utterance of the latter half of the
nineteenth century and it seems impos-
sible that it can fail to exert a power
full influence for righteousness. With
one apothegm he cuts to the very vitals
planning how on prior occasions Euro
pean concert had been shaped to wor-
thy ends, he remarks that the best
when in its corruption always changes
to the worst" The concert of the pow
ers is now in its corruption and so is
infinitely more vicious than would be
its utter shattering. Read Gladstone's
words:
The Armenian massacres, judiciously IN
terspersed with intervals of breathing
time, have surpassed in. their scale and In
the intensity and diversity of their wick
edness all modern, If not all historical, eX-
perience, All this was done under the
eyes of the six powers, who We're repre-
scented by their ambassadors, and who
thought their feeble verbiage a sufficient
cOunterpoise to the instruments of death,
shame, ana torture, provided if in franz
ing it they all chimed in with one ano-
ther. Growing in confidence with each
successive triumph of deeds over words
and having exhausted in Armenia every
eXpedient of deliberate and wholesale
wickedness, the Sultan, whom | have not
lal to, ,l1l l.4 Ags. I'm ,,RI
lected that he had not yet reached his
climax. 1t yet remained to show to the
powers ana their ambassadors, under
their own eyes ana within the hearing OF
their own ears, in Constantinople itself
what their organs We're too dun to Set
and hear. From amid the Businesses o
the Armenian hills to this height of dar
ing he boldly ascended, and his triumph
was not less complete than before. They
did, indeed, make bold to Interfere will
his prerogatives by protecting or export
ing some AImenians who would otherWis
have swelled the fostering heaps of thos
murdered in the streets of Constantine
pie but as to punishment, reparation, o
even prevention, the world has yet I,
learn that any one of them was effectual
ly cared for. Every extreme of wicked
ness is sacrosanCt when it passes ii
Turkish garb. All comers may, as in
tournament Of old, be challenged to poin
which have been marked by more glarin
inequality of forces; by more uniform AN
complete success of weakness combine
with wrong over strength associated wit
right, of which it had, unhappily neithe
consciousness nor confidence; by so vas
an az gregation OF blood-red records c
massS.c or by so profound a dlsgrac
inflicted upon and still clinging as a shin
of Nassus to collective Europe. All thes
terrible occurrences the six powers appea
10 treat as past and gone, as dead an
buried. They forget that every one c
them will revive i'm history, to say notf
ing of a higher record still and in pre-
ceeding calmly to handle those further dc
velopments of the great drama which ar
now in progress they appear blissfull
unconscious that at every step they TAX
they are treading on the burning cindeI
of the Armenian massacres,
After showing in detail how the pre-