Empire is an idle and diplomatic fiction.

The last stage is reached. The question is whether this Empire, reeking
with crimes, red-handed from the blood of Christians in Armenia, a scourge
in the past, and an offence to the moral sense of humanity in the
present,--shall be permitted longer to exist?

Shall I tell you how this question is being answered to-day?

I am ashamed to write it!

Six Christian Powers, after exhausting the resources of diplomacy, are
bombarding Christians in Crete in defence of "the Integrity of the Ottoman
Empire"!

MARY PLATT PARMELE.

Copyrighted 1897, By WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON.