The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-11-06
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FII yR JES.
/ sPracticed a Macedo onia BY the Turks
on the Christians. b.
.HARDsHIps 4 THEY UNDERGO.

The Christian Subjects OF the. Sui:
tan Besides Being Inhulnanly
"A Treated Must Pay: E1or7
l,iennt. Taxes. gss
s# The Rev DR.. kIalcom NIaccoll, dean
.of Ripon, In England, made some
blood curdling charges against the
Turk In a recent sermon preached by
him at ST. Marks. Marylebone Road,
I London, and reported in s"rhe Church
Times" Among other things the
cannon said:
Now, let me try to give you an diea
of what that tyranny under which the
{ Christian subjects. Of the Sultan gr0an
3is and always has been; and let me beg
/ you to understand that in what am
! one atom OF their misery. Every state
ment / make, you may take 1t from
me, is an underStatemento of the facts.
E ] do not base my allegations on the
tales of travellers. l base every asser-
tion which / am now about to make
an authentic documents. have read,
I believe, without exception, every re-
port OF the British consuls in every
part Of Turkey from the year 1874
till now, and also every account given
of the condition Of the Christians Of
the Turkish empire by British ambas-
sadors in Constantlpople, and with
these have compared the consular
reports Of France, Italy and Austria
n6 t1,a 1tcn n NJ s,Y, ,i,n
dors. l do not make u single assertion
! beyond these authentic documents,
and in what | am going to say about
the permanent law OF Turkey, as OF
every other Mussuluman state which
wields independent sway. l take my
facts from the textbooks Of the law OF
Turkey itself.
The first point is this, that the
Christian subjects of the sultan-and
remember when speak Of the Chris
tian subjects Of the sultan you must
draw q clear distinction between
Christians who are living in Turkey as
subjects Of other powers and Chris
tjans who are subject to the sultan.
AL the nations Of Christendom have
SO little confidence in the honesty
and justice Of the Turkish government
that they have their own consular
jurisdiction and their own postotlices
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 descendants
Of those Christians whom the sultanS
conquered long ago, have no rights at
all, but such as those which l am
about to describe to you. In the first
place, it is against the law Of Turkey
for Christian subject to the sultan
to carry any arm, either dagger or 4
pistol. Again, no Christian subject
can give evidence in court of justice
against Mussulman. The evidence
OF Christians is not admissible against
Mussulmans in any part of the Turk.
fsh empire. The result is this tina
1Oe or 1000 witnesses who may b
4 Christian subjects of the sultan ma,
see a woman i'll used, carried off b,
force into the house Of Turk, o
slain, or relatives trying to rescue he
slain,s and they cannot prove the Grim,
because, though there may be thouS
and creditable witnesses, their evi
dence Is not available against /;
Mussnlman, and no Mussulman vii
give evidence against a corcligionst il
favor OF Christian.
Again, every Christian in Turkey i.
liable to poll tax; that is to say
every Christian in Turkey is liable tx
pay tax for permission to live during
that year. If the tax is not paid al
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 Christian.
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 on
gendarmeri Of Turkey, every male
Christian, from the time he is three
months old, is obliged to pay tax
for immunity from military service.
He is not allowed to be soldier, but
he is obliged to pay a tax for not serv-
ing In the army or gendarmeri The
taxes OF which am speaking now are
the taxes which the Christian subject
or the sultan pays in addition to the
taxes which the Mussulnan 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 he insists, as a rule, upon
bribes In addition to the legal tithe,
and when he does not get them, he
does not allow the harvest to be
gathered until the bribe is paid; and
during that time he and his rctlnue
OF followers are quartered on the in.
habitantS. The Christians also arc
liable to force service whenever thcil
Mussulman landlord or government de-
mands 1t. 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 separate quarter of the town
or village from the MuSsulman. The
terms commonly applied to them, not
by a popular fanaticism, but in 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
a Christian at death is damned. Now
1 will quote one Of the ordinary
official burial certificates given the
Christian subjects of thn Snltan hnforo