Word: sultanic
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...designed to promote any scheme of territorial aggrandizement. (1) England would not be allowed either by other nations or by public opinion at home to use this occasion to increase her territorial advatages in the East. (a) But for fear of Rusia, Enland would probably have compelled the Sultan to stop the massacres long ago (Bliss, 559-564). (b) The people of England are demanding action only for reasons of humanity. (2) The United States, as every one knows, has no desire to acquire territory, or to do more than to secure to the people of Armenia a righteous...
During the week the regular work of the various debating societies has been carried on as usual. At the meeting of the Scientific School society, the following subject was debated upon: "Resolved, That England should Depose the Sultan of Turkey." The Yale Union met on Friday night and debated on the question: "Resolved, That the character of McKinley better fits him for the Presidency than does that of Bryan...
...massacres have in all cases been the work of the Moslem, and have often been the outcome of official orders. The Turks won the country by arms and by arms they keep it with barbarous misrule and pillage. Nor, in spite of repeated treaties agreed to by the Sultan, has anything yet been done to alleviate the miseries to which the Christians are subjected...
...pity that so much time and ingenuity should be wasted in the production of verses so disagreeably suggestive as those entitled "The Sultan...
Every empire has its cycle of existence, passing from small beginnings to the zenith of power, and ending in decay and extinction. The power of Islam forms no exception to this rule. Its period of splendor was under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and since that time disintegration has made rapid progress...