Year: 1876




being sufficient for his amusement and which no goes
round every year These fabulous sums which
would almost appear be taken from the THOUSAND
and One Nights" Yet no dares not reduce them even
cent because he needs 1t all TO manain his prestige
and glory in the EasLn


EMPIRE DOOMED.


This cannot continue. The Mohammedan principle
OF faaIIsm condemns the Turkish Empire Asiatc
immoblity and Asiac immobility turn condemns 1t
to gangrenous corruption The principle OF autocracy
opposes insuporaole wall to all orderly progress.
That organization of the family is a permanent cause
OF normal nferiority which brings with It multitude
OF permanent causes Of political inieriorty One book
only delivered to the perpetual commentary of race
very much given TO theological arguments petrdes the
intelligence and gives the rigidness of death.
The causes which produced intellectual splendor OF
our Arabs in our fertile Andalusia have no. been
we'll examined. Putting aside tho natural culture Of
that wonderful land-puttlng aside tho mixture Of
races and OF the great influence exercised by the in
disenous one, sometimes by its Christanized Moors
and at Others through its ronegades, the fact that
great part OF that glory hcterodoxy Of the
Western Calphate which opened the horizon to
liberty Of thought And after tho fall OF the
Calphale 1t is due to those individual separate
cities which converted into schools and
academies. The illustrous sages OF Seville,
great astronomers as they poets, who
studied the secrets OF the skies after the grace
iul Grselda, were grand heretics But the present
Mohammedan Empire Of the east of Europe is
trased by its orthodox rigdness with the fine hetero-
doxy and the continuous mobility OF the ancient Mo-
hammedan Empire ofour privileged West Thus It's that
to the enterprise of the Arabian race in Andalusia
faith has succeeded which is truly Mongolia by its
rigidty, its Incorporating attitude and its alb
surdity. With this faith the Turks may hope that the
gates OF Paradise will be opened to them but they may
also fear that the gates of the Bosphorus VIII bo shut
against them.


EUROPE DEGREES TURKEYS


Wherever the rebellion has reached the Sultan has
opposed its normal development in the Of
Europe by the programme Of his reforms. Wherever
the rebellion has succumbed the Sultan has tried to
avoid its renewal by a horrible forgetfulness of his
word and by implacable cruelty. The proof OF tins
may be manifestly found in the promises that were
given at the time OF the heroic instruction Of Crete
and IN the forgetting of those promises
Crete fell under the weight of her misfortunes not
withsandng the herolsm of her efforts For this
son Western Europe ought not consent that the
emancipation OF the oppressed nations OF the East
should remain at thc mercy OF Russia. The ques-
tion OF the East ought to be regulated in
such manner that Christian liberty should flourish
without serving TO revive Russian politics The
truth is that the Turkish Empire cannot continue.





the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in which it
swept back its took possession of the East
il has fallen into state of desoation and of
ruins from its fragments and its miserable remains
Vulnerable weak nationates have arisen, imperfect
and fragile This movement OF decomposition in Tur-
key and of decomposition among her tributary nations
condemns that dcspotc Empire irremcdiably to death
Turkish statesmen accustomed to ienal resignation
believe that Europe will not them of her BOSOM
because they made necessary by the awful subject
of their inheritance and the insuperable difficulty of
replacing them. The cardinals of Rome thought tho
When they talked of the imminence of an
assault upon the capital OF Italy they raised
multitude of such religious political and social obsta-
ces made the fall Of the Pope impossible And yet
he fell Notwithstanding and the difficulties have been
vanqulshed with singular good fortune Europe has
decrced the death OF the Turkish Empire Turk
ish Empire must die.


ENGI-AND's SHARE OF RESPONSIBILITY.


That England which sustained the necessity OF
maintaining the Turkish Empire appears TO be com
plctoly resigned death prepared console
herself with considerable portion of the inheritance.
Thus she buys dear rate the half Of the sucz Ca
nal and in this way enters the arena by direct and
active Intervention in the problems OF the East. 1t is
already time that such awakening should to
reveal before the world the existence OF ntcrna-
tonal policy in old England Her indifference had
reached such extreme thai IL seemed her own
interests could her. All European matters
settled either against influence spite of
it She wished to intervene In the difficulties between
Poland and Russia, but did dare. She wished TO
interfere in the differences between Denmark and Ger
many, but did not dare. She wished to intervene
the differences between Turkey and Crete, but did
not dare Hor only OF real international impor-
consisted in the restitution of the Icnian arch
peago TO its true nationality-Greece. Denmark
Austria and France were sacrificed without
moving England Tho treaty Of Paris, which con-
hrmed the victories OF her policy in the East
was altered and the Black Sea received the Russian
naval squadrons That nothing should be wanting to
this concourse OF adverse circumstances there came
the humiliation of England before America, publicly
confessed in the protocols of the Alabama arbitration.
People said that she capable of leaving the mouth
of the Rhine completely to the Germans the French
the Scheld the spanards Tagus consentng that
Holland should be annexed to Germany Belgium to
France Portugal toSpan. writer traced in the form of
popular novel, the imaginable but possible end Of all
this long decay; the irruption OF the Germans more
rapid and more victorious than the irruption Of the
Normans and the rreparabie ruin OF the English En-
pire An anecdote, attributed 70 the German Chan
ccllor, passed from mouth to mouth which supposed
him to have shrugged his shoulders at hearing the
OF England and that he believed her to have lost
her power and influence This political extravaganza
greatly injured the radical party and course greatly
served the conservatives. When you see an English
liberal and you ask him for the ustrous statesmen Of
the party, he will answer by


HEwAIISG DEATH OF OLD PA1MERsrox


and assuring you that his ilustrous successor great
hnancer grea; orator. great sage OF undoubted loyalty
and unsued honor, completely ignores foreign policy
and Ecslects British interests abroad Many attribute
this to tho preponderaiing influence Of the school
OF Manchester in liberal politics. school which looks
at only sido Of things the economical side and
that has only motto, good enough in the sphere Of
scientific Investigations, but grievousy heavy in the
sphere Of practical business ''peace at any price"
motto which, by its own simplicity, is inappcable
people whose interests have prcdominated over ideas