• Lord Salisbury made a second speech at Bradford on
Thursday, much of which was devoted to Armenia. He spoke in an unexpectedly, and to us distressingly, feeble tone. He virtually admitted the atrocities, but attributed them in part to the permanent "civil war "raging in Armenia, doubted if the troops were directly responsible, and exonerated the Sultan personally, as "a humane man," from complicity.
He objected to interference unless supported by force, thought it impossible that the three Powers should employ force, and apprehended that a threat of it might end in the expulsion of all Armenians. In short, his counsel seemed to be to do nothing but grieve. We do not believe in the Sultan's humanity, consider the evidence as to the troops indisputable, and hold the suggestion of civil war to be exactly on a par with a suggestion of civil war between sheep and wolves.. The speech will tie Lord Kimberley's hands, and raise in a hundred thousand minds a keen fear that in the Unionist Government, now so near at hand, the Foreign Office may not be strong.
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