The sun., 1918-10-15
The Turks Cry to END the She'd
ding OF Blood" --

The Turks Cry to END the She'd
ding OF Blood" --
America is not officially ut war with
Turkey. although the Ottoman EN-
pires representative has been dis
missed from Washington, and 50 It Is
not surprising to see the Turk steal
forward to put the burden Of getting
peace for himself In the hand of the
President. OF course Turkey wants
peace; not even the most suspicious
can doubt 1t. Bulgaria out of the
war, Austria all atremble, Germany
squealing, the British victorious In
the East, Turkey will kiss any hand
that helps her out of the ruin. The
Turk hurries to take what he hopes
he may get:
TT 1.-THE Turkish Government accepts
as basis for the negotiations the pro-
gramme laid down by the President of
the United States in his message to Con-
sress of January 8. 1918. and In his
subsequent declarations. especially the
speech of September a."
Perhaps the Turk saw hope for him
self In the first clause Of the twelfth
paragraph of the Presidents speech
OF January 8:
"The Turkish portions of the present
Ottoman Empire should DO assured q
secure sovereignty :"
True, the President said more than
that, but what he snid would be con-
strued by genuine Turk as mere lit.
erary exercise, for this is what Mr..
WILSON added:
L" but the other nationalities
which are now under Turkish rule should
be assured an undoubted security Of life
and an absolutely unmolested opportu-
nifty Of autonomous development"
In the Presidents speech of Septem-
Der %, the second document referred
to by the bowling Turk, we find an in
teresting paragraph:
The impartial justice melted out must
involve no discrimination between those
to whom we wish to DO just and those to
whom we do not wish to be Just"
1t does not matter which class the
Turk may believe himself to be In. 1t
Is Justice, impartial justice, that he
expresses himself as being willing to
accept; not bargaining, not pity, not
warning-only Justice. Let US glance
back twenty months to an extract
from q message which came to Amer
lea from Mr.. BALroUR on the subject
Of the Turks justice toward the Ar
menlan:
''of the 1900. oso ArmenIans who were
In the Ottoman Empire two years ago,
10000 have been either messacred or
deported. Those who were massacred
died under abominable tortures, but they
escaped the longer agonies OF the de-
ported. Men. women and children were
driven from their homes and made 10
march as long as their strength lasted
or until those who drove them drowned
or massacred them in patches"
What the Prussian monster did in
Belgium his Turkish satrap repeated
hundredfold In Armenia. The war
was the Turks opportunity to carry
out, with the delight of beast that
had never had his fill Of blood, the
programme he had nursed in his mind
for years, the almost complete exter.
mination Of a wretched people.
And this Is the Turkey that asks
that steps be taken toward general
armistice "in order to put an end to
the shedding Of blood" What smile
must have fitted across the face OF
the Minister who wrote the quoted
words! Why, indeed, should more
blood be shed when Turkey has glutted
itself upon n helpless race?
Justice, said SHAKESPEARE, always
whirls in equal measure. If Turkey
were TO be treated with the impartial
justice which 1t pretends to welcome
who in all the Government of that
evil empire would not so to the execu-
tioneri