The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
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A Pew Pasnees vssa IN Letter - -
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Hh nv firm Inward bstisf that the dspacr-
able position which the coecsvsed sesscn %
non-acsion u ttss Powers Ct ESyore b.
brcushs about and nnintafled has been
mainly due, not 70 . common scrord but TO
q want Of il; that The unvise ard mistaken
Views Of some Of tie Povess have bSoueM
dishonor UPON ths vbole. and that when
the time CONES for The dissribUsioa With fun
kno~kdge Ct praise and blame Il vW not b
on the British Government or On thoss n
sympathy With Il that the heaviess sentence
Of CONDENSATION win descend.
Growing in confidence With each sucoes-
sive triumph Of deeds over vords. and hAv-
ing exhausted every expedient Of deliberate
and Wholesale wicksdnese. the Sultan. whom
have not ecrupled 70 call the Great Assas-
s;a, veoo,sec;sa that be had not yet reached
his climax. II yet remained to show to The
Povers and their Ambassador, under their
own eyes and within the bearing OF tier
own ears, in Conssansinople itself, what theEr
organs we're too dull to re and hsaT.
Every extreme Of vickedness b sacrosanct
when i, passes in Turkish gsrb. AL corners
may. Is IN 6 tournament OF old. be chal-
lensed TO point to any two years Of dipso-
matte history which hare been marked By
more ghring inequality Of forces; BY more
Uniform and complete success OF weakness
combined With wrong ov~r strength $3.50
GATED With right. Of which it had. mhap-
PLY. neither consciousness nor confidence:
by % vast an aSgrsgation OF h'ood-red
records Of mAsaacre, or by 80 profound .
diagracs inflicted upon and stW c6nGiEE
- . shirt Of Nessu to collective Europe
A nothing can b better. nay. nothing
50 good. as the concert Of Europe. where
it can be made to work; 20. - the BEST when
, in its corruption always changes 70 the
worst, nothing can Be moro mischievo0s
than the pretence to Be working with this
tool when il u net really in working order.
The concert Of Europe then comes 70 mean
the concealment Of dissents, the lapse into
seneralisies, and the settling down upon
regations At junctures when duty loudly
calls for positive action.
Its surely time tia; We should have done,
at least for the present occasion, With the
gross and palpath detusion, under which
alone can We hope for any eHectual dealing
by a European concert with the present
crisis In the East. 1t Is time 70 shake OH
the incubus and TO renemh er, a. IN the days
of old, that We have an existence. charac-
ter. and duty Of our own.
twas at the cost Of three hundred thou
sand lives and three hundred millions Of
money that the question Of Turkeys ca
pacity to take rank among the civilized
nations was brought 70 conclusive test,
negatively. through the total failure Of the
scheme Of internal reform. and, alas! posi-
lively, through the horriL 10 outrases which
desola,ed Bulgaria and brought about
fresh mutiliation Of the territory.
It shows an amazing courage or an ANAL
ing infa.uation that after maze OF eIpe-
rience. alike deploratle ard conclusive, the
rent and ragged catchword OF integrity
OF the Ottoman Empire should still Re
. Haunted in our eyes.
Greece, Roumania, Servia. Montenegro,
and Bulgaria. stand before u as Ave living
witnesses that, even In this world, reign OF
wrong Is not eternal. Blu. still il is dinned
in our ears from the presses, and in&eed
from the thrones. Of a continent, that we
must not allow our regard for justice. hu-
manity and freedom Of Life and honor TO
bring into question or put to hazard the
Integrity Of the Ottoman Empire. The
great and terrible tragedy Of Armenia is,
however, for the time, trust for the time
only. out Of sight il 10. out Of mind One
hundred thousand victins-such is tie
nulnter q, which they are placed by Dr..
Lepsius, one Of the latest inauirers whose
WORKS are before the world, and who adds
10 other recommendations that Of icing a
German--hAve stated for a tine even fend
ism appetite We wait in painful uncer-
tainty until hunger shall return.