The sun., 1917-01-27
TURKEY YMUSTGO,
BRYCE'S FINDING
First Word From EXAM
bassadOr Since Peace Notes
Gives Reasons.
Is NOT REALLY A NATION
Only a RObber Band Unfit to
Govern and Outside Any
Alliance.
Is NOT REALLY A NATION

the expulsion of the Turk from Europe,'
included among the tc: ms in the allied /
note in reply to President Wilson, 10
justified by Lord Bryce in a statement
he made to-day This is the first time !
the former Ambassador to the United
States has appeared in connection with
the peace discussion, for while he has
been carefully considering President
Wilson's moves and the responses made
to them, he has refrained from any ut
terance. Later the decided conclusions
he has reached may be published.
Concerning Turkey. however. Lord
Bryce's views were formulated before
the peace notes were exchanged and will
| appear in about a month for authorized
publication in Lo- don and New York
, under Government auspices. Owing to
their direct bearing upon the terms re-
garding Turkey laid down in the En-
tentes reply he has now made them!
! available.
mo one who has studied the history
| OF the near East for the last five GEN.
turies," says Lord Bryce. will be sur
prised that the allied Powers have de-
clared their purpose TO put an end to
( the rule of the Turk in Europe, and still
' less will he dis ent from the determina-
tion to deliver the Christian population
of what is called the Turkish Empire
whether In Asia or in Europe. from the
government which during those five CEN
turtles has done nothing but oppress
I them.
! Turk Unat to Govern.
These changes are, indeed, long over
| due. They ought to have come more
! than a century ago. because it had then
| already become manifest that the Turk
was hopelessly UNIT to govern. with any
approach to justice. subject. races Of diff
ferent religion. The Turk has never
been, of any use for any purpose except
fighting. He cannot administer. though
in his earlier day he had the sense TO
employ intelligent Christian adminIstra-
tors He cannot secure justice. AS a
governing power he has always shown
himself incapa BILE. corrupt and cruel. He
has always destroyed he has never cre-
ated.
Those whom we call Turks are not
nation at all in the proper sense OF the
word The Ottoman Turks were small
conquering tribe from Central Asia who
were ruled during the first two centuries
of their conquests by succescion OF sim
gularly able and INSCRIPTIONS Sultans
who subjugated the Christian population
of Asia Minor and southeastern Europe.
compelling part of these populations to
embrace Mohammedanism.
"As famous English historian wrote
the Turks are nothing but a robber band
encamped in the countries they have
desolated As Edmund Burke wrote,
the Turks are savages with whom no
civilized Christian nation ought to form
an alliance.
Turkish rule ought TO be ended in
Europe because, even in that small part
of II which the Sultan still holds. It is
( AN alien Power which has in thai;
, region been, and is now, expressing or
massacring. slaughtering or driving
from their homes the Christian popula-
tions OF Greek or Bulgarian stock. II
ought to be turned out OF the western
coast regions Of Asia Minor for a like
; reason.
Only Weak state to he Left.
"If the Turkish Sultanate Is to be
left in being at all it may, with the
< least injury to the world, be suffered
to exist In central and northern
I Asia Minor. There the population Is
\ mainly Mussulman and there are COM
paratively few Christians. and those
only in the cities. to suffer from the
n misgovernment. Even there one would
i be sorry for its subjects, Mussulman as
D well as ChGstian. but the weak Turkish
state. such@s 1t would then he, could no,
= venture on the crimes OF which II had
been guilty when 1t was comparatively
strong.
That the faults OF Turkish govern
ment are incurable has been most
clearly shown by the fact that tn,
Young Turk gang who gained power
when they deposed Abdul Hamid have
: ! surpassed even that monster OF cruelt,
{ in their slaughter of unoffendipg Ar
:, menians. The Committee of Union ant
" Progress began by promising equa
;, rights to all races and faiths. This wa,
union 1t proceeded forthwith not onl,
:, to expel the Greek speaking inhabitant,
A of western Asia Minor but to extermi
\ nate the Armenians.
) "The Moslem peasant OF Asia Mino
Ia an honest. kindly fellow when no
4, reused by fanaticism. but the Turk n,
q a governing power Is irreclaimable, an,
- the allied Powers would have been falls
n to all the principles of right and human
n ity for which they are fighting II the,
had not proclaimed that no Turkish gov
ernment shall hereafter be permitted Il
tyrannize over the subjects of anothe
, faith"