The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-04
AWFUL CRUELTIES
Practiced n Macedonia by the Turks
on the Christians.
,EARDSEIPS THEY UNDERGO.
The Christian Subjects Of the Sui
tan Besides Being InhEInanly
Treated Must Pay ExOr-
bitant Taxes.

tan Besides Being Inhumanly
Treated Must Pay Exor-
bitant Taxes.
The Rev. DR.. Malcom Maccoll, dean
of Ripon, in England, made some
blood curdling charges against the
Turk in recent sermon preached oy
him at St. Marks. Mdrylebone Roao,
London, and reported in The Church
Times" Among other tnlngS LIZ
cannon said:
Now, let me try to give you an clea
of what that tyranny under which the
Christian subjects Of the Sultan groan
is and always has been: and let me beg
YOU to understand that in what am
now going to say l do not eSaggerate
one atom Of their misery. Every state
ment l make, you may take it from
me, is an underStatement Of the facts.
/ do not base my allegations on the
tales Of travellers. ! base every aSSer-
tion which l am DOW about to make
an authentic documents. l have read,
IbeIieve, without exception, every re-
port OF the British consuls in every
part Of Turkey from the year lS44
till DOW, and also every account given
Of the condition Of the Christians OF
the Turkish empire by British amoaS-
sadors in Constantinople, and with
these I have compared the consular
reports Of France, Italy and Austria
and the dispatches Of these amoaSsa'
dors. l do not make a single assertion
beyond these authentic documents,
and in what I am going to say ABOUT
the permanent law OF Turkey, as OF
eyerv other Mussuluman state which
wields independent sway. l take my
facts from the taXtbUokS Of the law 0!
Turkey itself.
The first point is this, that the
Christian subjects of the sultan-and
remember when l speak Of the Chris
tian subjects of the sultan you must
draw a clear distinction between
Christians who are living in Turkey as
subjects of other powers and Chris
tians who are subject to the sultan.
All the nations OF Christenoom have
SO little confidence in the honesty
and Justice Of the Turkish government
that they have their own consular
jurisdiction and their own postothces
in Turkey. British subjects, or the
subjects Of any other Christian power.
are not under the rule OF the courts OF
Justice in Turkey. They are under
the consular jurisdiction Of their own
country. The Christian subjects OF
the sultan, who are the deScends!frS
of those Christians whom lssS07tans
conquered long age> >A'sn no rights at
all, bus-s slassssSas those which l am
about to describe to you. 10 the first
place, it is against the law OF Turkey
for a Christian subject to the sultan
to carry any arm, either dagger or
pistol. Again, no Christian subject
can give evidence in court of justice
against a MuSsulman. The evidence
of Christians is not admissible against
Mussulmans in any part OF the TURK
ish empire. The result is this that
100 or 1000 witnesses who may DE
Christian subjects Of the sultan may
see a woman i'll used, carried of by
force into the house Of Turk, or
slain, or relatives trying to rescue her
slain, and they cannot prove tee crime
because, though there may be- thoCs-
and creditable witnesses, their evil
dence is not available against a
Mussulman, and 40 MuSSulman vii!
give evidence against coreligionSt IL
favor of a Christian.
Again. every Christian in Turkey is
liable to a poll tax; that is to say:
every Christian in Turkey is liable to
pay tax for permission to live during
that year. If the tax is not paid at
the end of The year, his life is forfeit.
The law is universal, though not al
ways put in force. And let me say
this when talking about the Christians
not being permitted to carry arms.
Though the Christians are not allow
ed to possess any arms, and therefore
are not admitted into the army or
gendarneri Of Turkey, every male
Christian, from the time be is three
months old, is obliged to pay tax
for immunity from military service.
he is not allowed to be a soldier, but
he is obliged to pay tax for not Serv-
ing in the army or gendarmeri. The
taxes Of which I am speaking now are
the taxes which the Christian subject
of the sultan pays in addition to the
taxes which the MuSsulDan pays IN
common with him. All the taxes are
farmed out to Jews and others, and
the. farmer Of the taxes goes his
rounds, and ne insists, as rule, upon
bribes in addition to the legal tithe,
and when be does not get them, he
does not allow the harvest to be
gathered until the bribe is paid; and
during that time be and his retlnue
Of followers are quartered on the in
habitants. The Christians also are
liable to force service whenever their
Mussulman landlord or government de-
mands it. Again, they are liable to
all kinds of personal insults and In
dignities. They are obliged to wear
sombre dress, to distinguish them
from the MusSulmans, and they are
not allowed to bathe in the same pub.
lie baths or to draw from the same
wells as the MuSsulmanS. They must
live in a separate quarter of the town
or village from the MuSsulman. The
terms commonly applied to them, not
by popular fanaticiSm, but 10 sober,
deliberate, official documents, are
''dogs" and hogs" Also in legal
and official documents the death Of a
Christian is called his "damnation,"
because the Mussulman believes that
Christian at death is damned. Now,
I will quote one Of the ordinary
official hnrial certificates given the