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The Anti-turkish Feeling In England

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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In their indignation and sliame at the conduct of Disraeli and the Tory party t-ouching the TuAïsh akvcities in Bulgaria, the English papers are piling up evidence to show the infamous cruelties of the Turkish butcher, and nave created a popular sentiment against that country whieh takes precedence of evevy other question. The London Times says very foroibly : " Such is the risiug anger that, if they were to repeat on the soilof Servia even a small part of the horrors which they have cornmitted in Bulgaria, the strongest ministry would be powerlesa to prevent this country frorn rushing into cm intervention whieh might scltle the feite of Turkcy forever." Sir Wüliarn Harcourt, in the House of Commons, gave utterance to the emphátic sentimeüt that "he hoped to God that we had at last done with the Turks." The most surprising feature of the case is that England should have ever had anything to do with thein. The Times itself shows that their wars have always been accompanied with massacres and the most fiendish cruelties. There have been horrible massages in Oon: stantinople, Smyrna, and Cyprus. Three thousand Greeks were massacred in Bhodes. In Scio, 30,000 people were put to death. Fifty thousand men, women and children were soid into slavery. The hostages were murdered, and not enough people were left to gather the harvest. There is no more reason now why the Turks shouJd be any more merciful than they were then. The hostility between them and the Christians is just as bitter. The great majority of the Mohammedans are even more fanatical than they were during the war for Greek independence. They know nothing of the oondition of the rest of Europe. They learn nothing from history or the progress of civilization. They always have boen, are now, and always will be, until they are stamped out, fanatical butchers. It is a matter, however, for congratulation thai the English have at last been compellec to express their indignant üisapproval o: their protege's conduct. It promises tt secure the Christians in -the reforms which they deserve and demand. I promises to guarantee them the ordinary rights of lmmanity and society. It is au omen that when the linal day of set tlement comes íor these horrible atroci tiep, the whole world will rise and ordei these butcliers outside the pale of civi lized nations. The ouly regret is that a man of Disraeli's brilliiutit abilities anc wide-spread fame should have sulliec the closing days of his career by appear ing as the apologist of massacre and tin delender of the butchers of wonien and little ahildren.- Chicago Tribune. Miss Oohins, the conductor oí Boffin's Bower, a Bostón eharitable institution, says that out of every hundred slio; girlB in that city, fifty live at home, am the rest in boarüing hoasea. Sli? think fchere we 80,000 girla enaployed iu Bob tea ahojjH tioiw,

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