THE TURK MUST GO.

To most of us it came as a distinct shock to learn, a few days ago, that the Allied powers intended to allow the Sultan to remain in Constantinople, with a large part of his former power still untouched; and this news was not rendered the more acceptable when printed side by side with accounts of fresh massacres and outrages committed by the Sultan's subjects.

Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam.

Even if the contrary were true, it might furnish a motive for retaining the Sultan as a nominal religious head; but it would give not the faintest pretext for bolstering up his secular power. It is a great pity that the United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over a century the Powers have endeavored to maintain the hopeless anachronism of Turkish rule; and for over a century that policy has brought dissension and wars upon Europe, and terrible suffering upon the subject races of the Empire. It is time for new methods. By the recent Armenian massacres, if by nothing else, the Turk has demonstrated his utter incapacity for any form of sovereignty. Whatever may be the fate of Constantinople, tl Turkish political power must go.