The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-04-11
GREECE TURKEY.
THE "EASTERN QUESTION" Elk
planned IN u NUTSHELL.
Why the "Unspeakable Turk" Is Per-
mitted to Remain In EurOpe-The Bal
ance of Power-The HideOus Doctrines
of Craven Diplomacy.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
ATHENS, March 23.-You ask me for
statement of existing conditions and
for an explanation of them. TO do this
we must go back beyond a period in
which your country Of America had no
recorded history and must stick pin
in the chronological chart of Europe and
Asia about the year 81 l, or that in which
Mohammed was born, for this false
prophet was the cause of all our trouble,
the instigator of that religion which
teaches its followers that the joys of
heaven can only be gained by putting
all other religionists to the sword
When in 1921 Greece rose against her
oppressors, she had the sympathy, as
she has today, of the educated and cul-
tivated men and women throughout the
globe. We can recall that your great
Americans, like Webster and Everett,
and Britons, like Lord Byron, enlisted
themselves on the side of struggling
Greece. Byron came here and eventual
ly gave his life to our cause, and though
our people had been reduced to such
stages of starvation as to be compelled
to subsist on roots and leaves and to
dwell i'll caves, yet in the end we tri-
umphed. The battle of Navarino in
1897 settled the Turkish question in
Greece and gave our country once more
autonomy and freedom. Since that
eventful day we have been gradually
growing in strength and self respect,
constantly enlarging our boundaries,
until today we have at least respectable
rank among the smaller powers. In
truth the great powers, so long ago as
1S41, professed to be afraid of our event
ual supremacy in the Ottoman territory,
the greater portion of whose inhabitants
are Greek by birth and religion, and
that year guaranteed the integrity of
the Turkish empire.
In 1858 followed that strange war of
the Crimea, resulting from the desire of
the car to assume protectorate over
his Christian subjects in Turkey. But
what Russia lost as the outcome of that
war she more than gained after the last
Russo-Turkish war, and by the resultant
treaty of Berlin in 1878. That treaty,
with the great powers of Russia, Tur-
key, Germany, Great Britain, France,
Austria and Italy as signatories, guar
anteed the autonomy of Servia, Monte
negro, Bulgaria, Roumania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which, together with
Greece, were supposed to be sufficient
bulwarks, as between Russia and Tur-
key, to maintain that modern Pigment
of diplomats, the balance of power"
in Europe.
1t is to this juggernaut that the six
great powers of Europe today are will
ing to sacrifice a Christian nation like
Greece and millions of Christian people.
AT least they are committed to it. They
are virtually the emissaries of the sultan
and seem disposed to work his will and
perpetuate his power as against the long
suppressed desires and prayers of suffer
ing subjects.
The Ottoman Turk must be main
tanned i'll Europe-at least, the integrity
of his territorial boundaries maintained
in order to preserve the present bal
ance of power. -
Let us inquire what is this balance of
power. In the first place, Russia has her
eye on Constantinople and the Bosporus,
more as an outlet from the Black sea
than for its intrinsic strategic impor-
lance. Russia has made many demon
strations against India, by which the
bear has frightened Britannia nearly
out of her senses, but his real object is
the Bosporus. AS weighed ag inst In
dia, Britain will eventually allow the
Bosporus to go, but for many years she
has striven against this acquisition by
Russia with might and main. Then
there is Austria. She wants Danubian
province, with access to the Black sea
borders, but has no adequate bride to
give John Bull, as Russia has. AS be-
tween these two, the odds are in favor
of Russia.
Last of all comes our little Greece. It
is not possible that she can become a
menace to European integrity within
the next 300 years; but, if you will
glance at the map, you will see that to
her by right belongs the coveted terri
tory of the Turk in Europe.
Constantinople was anciently the seat
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ion not only of Greece, but of Russia,
as we'll as of the minor principalities of
Servia, Bulgaria, etc.
Even the great statesman, Gladstone,
has lifted up his voice against the con-
tinued rule of the Turk. The fact is the
powers see that the Turk must go, and
more, that to the Greeks must fall his
empire in Europe as residuary legatees.
1t is not, then. Crete solely, nor Mace
donia, that excites their apprehension
and justly perhaps, for, unless we are
totally extinguished in the coming con-
test, our ultimate objective shall be a
revived Byzantium at Constantinople.
We hope the reign of lust and cruelty is
near to it's end, and that succeeding it
will come the reign of art, of beauty, Of
Christian policy-in sooth, a regener-
ated, purified Greece, such as once as
tonished the world with its creations
and its culture. PHILIP TITTAKIS.
Victoria's AbdicatiOn.
Apropos of the gossip about Queen
Victoria's i'll health, Edwin Barron re-
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