The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-06
aLADsToNE's LIVING WORDS.
A Few Passages from His Letter to the Duke of Westminster
 in 1897,

in 1897.
 New York Sun.
 It is my firm inward belief that the de- plorable position which the concerted ac- tion or non-action of the Powers of Flu rope has brought about and maintained has been mainly due, not to a common &C., cord, but to want of it; that the unwise and mistaken views of some of the Pow CTS have brought dishonor upon the whole, and that when the time comes for the dis tribution with full knowledge of praise and blame 1t will not be on the British Government or on those in sympathy with 1t that the heaviest sentence of condemn ation will descend.
 Growing in confidence with each success sive triumph of deeds over words and having exhausted every expedient of de- liberate and wholesale wickedness the Sultan, whom have not scrupled to call the Great Assassin, recollected that he had not yet reached his climax. It yet | remained to show to the Powers and their ambassadors. under their own eyes and | within the hearing of their own ears, in Constantinople itself, what their organs were too dull to see and hear
 | Every extreme wickedness is sacro- sanct when it passes in Turkish garb. All | corners may is in a tournament of old, be challenged to point to any two years of | diplomatic history which have been mark ed by more glaring inequality of forces; by more uniform and complete success of weakness combined with wrong over strength associated with right, of which 1t had, unhappily, neither consciousness nor confidence: by so vast an aggrega- ton of bloodred records of massacres, or by so profound a disgrace inflicted upon and still clinging as a shirt of Nes- sus to collective Europe.
 As nothing can be better, nay nothing so good. as the "concert of Europe" where where it can be made to work; so, as the best when in It's corruption always changes to the worst, nothing can be more mischievous than the pretense when 1t is | not really in working order. The concert | of Europe then comes to mean the con- cealment of dissents, the lapse into gen. | eralities and the settling down upon nega- tions at junctures when duty loudly calls for positive action.
 | It is surely time that we sohuld have | done. at least for the present occasion, with the gross and palpable delusion un- der which alone can we hope for any ef- fectual dealing by European concert | with the present crisis In the East. It is time to shake off the incubus and to re- member as In the days of old. that we have an existence, a character and duty | of our own.
 It was at the cost of three hundred thousand lives and three hundred ilions of money that the question of Turney's capacity to take rank among the civil ized nations was brought to a conclusive test. negatively, through the total failure of the scheme of internal reform, and alas! positively, through the horrible out rages which desolated Bulgaria and brought about fresh mutilation of the ter ritory.
 It shows an amazing courage or ar amazing infatuation that after mass oi experience, alike deplorable and conclu sive. the rent and ragged catchword ot integrity of the Ottoman Empire" should still be fauntered in our eyes.
 Greece Roumania, Servia, Montenegro and Bulgaria, stand before us as five liv- ing witnesses that, even in this world
 reign or wrong is not eternal. But still fl
 1t dinned in our ears from the presses and indeed, from the thrones, Of con-
 tinent that we must not allow our regard for justice. humanity and freedom of life and honor to bring into question or pu
 to hazard the integrity or the ottoman Empire" This great and terrible trag
 edy of Armenia Is, however, for the time
 trust for the time only, out or sight | not out of mind. One hundred thousand victims-such is the number at which theA arc placed by Dr. Lepsius, one or the lat est inuuirers whose works are before th'
 world. and who adds to other recomneh datinns that of being a Germah-haN' sated for a time even a fendlsh appeute We wait in painful uncertainty uhtll nun ger shall return.