Sharp County record., 1877-07-20
Traits OF Tie 'rk.

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Traits OF The rk.
The Turk in his NATL state is
queer fish to contemplate. An intruder .
in Europe, he buries his ad in ASIA, .
rearing there cities of crWling tomb .
stones more silent than tie in which /
he lives, for there the voice the street .
yender is never heard. Hreligion is
not an effort to suppress mare, but a !
move in the direction of tont it down. |
Instead of removing his hat zen he en-
ters house he keeps on his ad-coyer-
inc and takes off his shoes, g washes
his hands after eating and n before,
and when he sleeps he cOveraiS head
and leaves his feet exposed the at
mosphere. He begins his day sunset
instead of daylight. He goes his al
fairs with slow and measured tld, and
hurries his dead to the cemery at
double-quick upon the theory tt every
moment spent outside the gra after
death is a moment of extreme rture.
Where other races bedeck their oman
and send them forth to be admod Of
men, covers his jewel with rellsive
feriee and hides her face
yaSbn1ac. His life is sensual, b. his
religion denies him that luXu of
most abstemiOus nations, generOusine.
His religion is one of bigOtry, anyet
the jew and the Gentle, the giaOuand
the hooded monk jostle the taithfl in
his narrow streets. The land whiclhe
inhabitS is fertile, and yet it gives fth
no adequate increase. He curlS up ad
sleeps amid the riches of his baZars ad
only seems disturbed when men cOle
to traffic. His capital sits upon the rm
of the Roman Empire, in the most bea-
tiful spot Of all the world, and it is bea.
tiful in spite of his efforts to render
repulSive. He has no eye for tn
aesthetic, he enriches no canvas, and ye
he lies along the hills Of the BOSphOru
in artistic rapture, smoking his n0rgbjl
while contemplating the beauties of blu
waters and still bluer mountains. Hei
cruel at times, but never treacherOus
he is insOlent, because he feels his pow
er, but seldom inhOspitable. His GOV
ernment is weak and selfish and Oppres
sive, because his religion and custom
breed for rulers Sensualists and weak
lings instead of men. Because he ha
declined to carry out "refOrmSn whic.
his nature and his inbred beliefs pro
hibit, he finds himself AZ waLtO day wit
a nation which sets at defiance ever
natural right Of man; which suppreSSe
intelligence; which sends men of spiri
" loYilff 70 Siberia. and sets up tn
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nout-post in the public place. kussi1,
nation of semi-barbarians, with
King absolute at the head Of its
hurch, has essayed the task OF uphold
no the banner of Christianity and chaS-
isino the Moslem, whose chief fault is
hat he lies at the water gateway Of this
most brutal and debaSing Of nations.
The Turk, secure in the belief that
england, with her great navy, stands at
MS back, has welcomed the war as a
bride might welcome a groom. lie eWlIl
set down and cast up his accounts rue
'ully at the end Of the game. lie Will
ind that his population has been ma,
.erially decreased, his glory tarnished
and his debt quadrupled, while his eS-
-eemed friend from the Britannia Isles
will own the Suez Canal and a couple OF
fine forts at each end Of the classic
In another half century he
may be sent to join his dead on the
Asiatic side, for fate has decreed that
the pale light Of the Crescent can never
make headway against the robust, re-
ligious pole star of Europe. The ban
ner of, the Osmanli waved once under
the walls of Vienna, but from the day
that Sobieski was proclaimed victor 1
has been slowly, but none the less sure
Iy, retreating toward the tomb OF th'
Prophet. -Cincinnatj Enquirer.