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to cult his dominions within twenty
four hours, received for answer that
:. if his Majesty cared to look put OF he
palace window ne would seed bin cross
ing t1esfroniief ID less than i've min
utes.n
- But these material losses, heavy
though they ere, are IS nothing COM
pared with tie moral anhe1ation which
Is ABOUT to follow. The war OF 1917
and its results have cost Turkey not
Batoum, not Bulgaria, not Antivari,
but the Turk himself. Europe has de-
creed the reform Of The Turkish system,
snd with sl1e first touch OF fefornf the
genuine q Osmahlin ceases to exist. A
rbigot In creed, 4 consef-yativs m pom
tics, destroyer by habit and tradition,
barbarian IN thought and feeling, he
is opposed alike BY nature and by en-
cumstanee to the very name of innOya-
ton; and, as in the old German legend,
the power of the enehantment ceases
with the first CLEAN of daylight. Such,
from the beginning of time, has been
the fate of every ''empire Of the sword. y
1873 is the diverse of 1853. The Turk
lsh Cahute forbade the tide of human
progress to approach his august feet,
and it has replied to him with NaVarino,
Adrianople, Plevna, San Stefano. He
loved to treat the ssChristian dogs" as
the vilest of his slaves, and those slaves
are now. commanding his fleets and
armies, and representing his Kingdom
in the parliament of the world. He
vaunteds hin1selkthe master. of Europe,
the irresistible coTiqueror around whose
throne the infdels should crouch to
plead for their very existence; and his
own existence is now hanging upon the
decision of three or four sedate middle
aged inidels from London and St.
Petersburg.
Luck, for a season, babe the Porte farewelis
And Turkey shrieksd as osman Pasha fell.
It is this which gives the Cars tri-
umph its real Importance Russia s
progress toward civilization mas been
tardy and uncertain; but the slowest adj
vance is better than none at all. Russia
is astream, Turkeys pond. While the
one creeps slowly onward, the other lies
fostering in auseless and death-dealing
stagnation. In fact, the Tartar of the
Bosphorus, burning libraries, razing
flourishing towns, blighting trade and
agriculture, otrampling Christianity.
butchering Sciote fugitiyes and Servian
prisoners, Boosting that "where his
households have trodden grass never
springs again, Is the Rip Van Wrinkle
of modern history-a relic of bygone
time, preserving, amid the life giving
progress of the worlds greatest era, a
last remnant of the cruel and unfruitful
barbarism of the Middle Ages. Such
historical paradOxeS are not uncommon
Spain, with her Imposition aud her
auto da t9, was. the solecism of the sew
enteenth century. Poland, with her
oligarchy and her universal veto,"
was that of the eighteenth. Turkey,
with her tyranny and her fanatieism, is
that of our own day. Into this human
swamp the worlds flood-tide has broken
at last, to sweep away once and forever
the accumulated putrefaction of four
centuries.
But the work of ages can not be I'M
done in q day, and the British protecto-
rate which Lord Beaconsfeld proposes
to establish in the East will be neither a
short nor an easy task. q Enthusiastic
men, themselves belonging to a high
Standard of civilization, are apt to for
get how many centuries were spent in
perfecting that standard, and to claim
that the whole earth shall be raised to
their level by one dead lift effort. 1t is
the schoolboy S mistake over again: $50
the wise men said to the King, o King.
live forever, and Immediately the King
lived forever" But this volcanic re-
generation is possible only in theory.
To cram a whole nation into a monster
gun of reform, and blow it out com
pletely civilized, is beyond the power of
man, and, in the present case, the
restoration of Arabian and B2yaZid,
the waving of the Dardazelles ques-
ton, the leaving to the Porte the power
of nominating the Militia officers of
Southern Bulgaria, and various other
symptoms, indicate wish on the part
OF the Western powers to make Turkeys
fall as gradual as possible.
Such, then, is the situation. Germany,
having done her work, stands Watching
its results with the quiet composure Of
conscious strength. Austria, disap-
pointed of her expected bride, is fret
ting and scolding at every one in turn,
like peeEish child. Turkey, accept
ing her own defeat as an accomplished
fact, iststriEing TO make the best of a
bad bargain By saving adj she can.
England is divided between satisfaction
at her own Unexpected success and a
lurking suspicion that this easy victory
must cover some deep stratagem on the
part of her willy antagonist. Mem
while, Russia, wisely yielding to a
pressure which it would be dangerous
to resist, is ''biding her Time" and
trusting to diplomacy to regain for her
what she could hardly hope to make
good by war.-NeW York Times. 81