THAT CLAMOR AGAINST THE TURK.
It is difficult to understand wherein the soil or atmosphere of Europe is so much more sacred than that of Asia that the Turk must be driven from the one into the other. The strangest part of the anomalous demand is that Americans should be so solicitous for the banishment of the Turk, as tho the interests of America would be any better subserved by having the Turk in Asia than in Europe. There is little doubt that affairs in the region of the Hellespont and the Bosphorus are more peaceful than they would be if the Turks were driven into Asia. The ludicrous side of the assumed inferiority of the Turk, and that therefore he is not fit to live in Europe, is shown by the following bit of recent news:— A violent conflict arose the other day in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem between Franciscans and Greek orthodox monks, which the Mussulman authorities finally stopped! On this announcement the Christian Work facetiously remarks: “How long will such anomalous ‘conditions’ prevail in ‘the holy city’? Probably until the Turk is driven out of Europe.” After all it may be possible that a concentration of Turkish power in Palestine will be needed to preserve the peace between the warring “Christian” denominations of Europe. We can see no other reason why Americans should be so anxious to see the instrument of peace-preservation driven into Asia.