The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
TURK MUST QUIT EUROPE.
Former Ambassador Says Turk Is
Only Fit for Fighting.

rope. included among the terms III
the entente allied note in reply to
President Wilson, is Justified by
Lord Bryce in his views on that
phase of the entente reply, which
were given to the Associated Press
today.
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 utterance on the subject. Later
the decided conclusions he mas
reached may be published.
Concerning Turkey, however, Lord
Bryce's views were formulated be-
fore the peace notes were exchanged
and will appear in about a month TOR
authorized publication in London and
New York under government auspl-
ces. Owing to their direct bearing
upon the terms regarding Turkey laid
down by the allies, he now has made
them available to the Associated
Press.
Lord Bryce's Views.
stNo one who has studied the his
tory of the near East for the last hve
centuries" said Lord Bryce, "will be
SURPRISED that the allied powers have
declared their purpose to put an END
to the rule of the Turk in Europe,
and still less will he dissent from
the determination to deliver the
Christian population of what is CALL
ed the Turkish empire, whether IN
Asia or in Europe, from the govern
ment which, during these five CEN
turies, has done nothing but oppress
them.
s'These changes are, indeed, long
overdue. They ought to have come
more than a century ago, because II
had then already become. manifest
that the Turk was hopelessly unfit to
govern, with any approach to justice
subject races of different religion.
Good Fighters.
'sThe Turk has never been of any
use for any purpose except for hight
ing. He cannot administer, though
in his earlier days he had the sense
to employ intelligent Christian ad-
ministrators. He cannot secure JUS
tice. AS a governing power, he has
always shown himself incapable, cor
rupt and cruel. He has always de-
stroyed; he has never created.
'"Those whom We call Turks are
not a 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
conauests by succession of singu-
larly able and INSCRIPTIONS Sultans,
who subjugated the Christian popu-
lation of Asia Minor and Southeast
ern Europe, compelling part of these
populations to embrace Moham-
mechanism and supporting their own
power by Selling the children of the
rest, forcibly converting them to
Islam and making out Of them an ef-
ficient standing army of Janizaries,
by whose valor and discipline the
Turkish wars of conquest were car
ried on from the early fifteenth down
into the nineteenth century.
Robber Band.
Gas a famous English historian
wrote, the Turks are nothing but a
robber band encamped in the coun-
tries they have desolated. AS Ed
mund Burke wrote, the Turks are
savages with whom no civilized
Christian nation ought to form any
alliance.
Turkish rule ought to be ended
in Europe, because, even in that small
part of it which the Sultan still holds,
it is alien power which has in that
region been and now is depressing or
massacreeing, slaughtering or driving
from their homes, the Christian pop
ulation of Greek or Bulgarian stock.
1t ought to be turned out of the
Western coast region of Asia Minor
for a like reason. The peoples there
are largely, perhaps, mostly Greek
speaking Christians. So ought 1t to
be turned out of Constantinople, a
city of incompatible commercial and
political Importance, with the guard
ianship of which it is unfit to be
trusted. So ought it to be turned out
of Armenia and Cilicia and Syria,
where within the last two years it
has been destroying it's Christian
subjects, the most peaceful and in