Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-23
OTHER LANDS THAN ouns.


breaking out in every province, with few ex-
ceptions. and in the few quiet ones 1t is
only on the surface that order exists. The
sultan does not dare order troops from Ma
cedonia TO suppress the revolt In Arabia. be-
cause the presence OF these troops is the
only thing ;hst keeps the Macedonians quiet,
and he cannot send from adjoining provinces
! into Anatolia, because those other provinces
are themselves either in the midst of or on
the verge Of an outbreak. The attempt to
mobilize the reserves is proving failure
because only two-thirds of tha men report
for duty, and when armed and ia the pres
ence of the rioters they join in the pillaging,
| as they did at Harpoot. There is thus only
pretense OF government in Turkey, and
| hardly that In Armenia, and this pretense is
| growing weaker daily. while the fleets of the
| powers remain idly in the Levant waiting.
nobody knows for what and allowing massa-
! cres to go on which can only be stopped by
| their interference.
The change OF ministry in England has en-
abled the viceroy of India to escape from
| what threatened to become an awkward pre-
| dicament Some account has been given in
| this journal already of the concern and ndg-
nation excited in India by the pilgrim ships
act, the result of the convention held In
| Paris to consider means of arresting the
| spread of cholera In Europe. Under pressure
| from the foreign office in London draft
| measure was sent out to India to give effect
to the proposals of the convention--some of
them peculiarly offensive to Indian Moham-
| medan pilgrims. AS Indian pilgrimage to
| Arabia had been regulated by a careful series
! of enactments based upon the local facts
| and fresh legislation was required IL the ex-
| listing law was to be superseded, Lord Elgin's
| government judged 1t impossible to bring
| those devices before the Indian legislature
without exciting popular agitation and
counting public defeat The Indian govern
| ment accordingly demonstrated with the sec
retary of state against the provisions of the
| bill, which pronounced dangerous and
| unjust. Mr.. Fowler. then secretary of state
for India, declined to entertain the protest
and insisted upon immediate legislation.
| After the fall of the Rosebery ministry Lord
Elgin made renewed representations and sue
ceeded in inducing the new secretary Lord
George Hamilton to withdraw former in
structions and leave him free hand. The
viceroy and his council then proceeded to
have the measure converted into an zen
abling act" which simply authorizes them to
do certain things if they choose. As the
Paris convention has not been ratified
England is not bound by any of it's pro-
Visions
The kingdom of the modern Greeks is
a factor which can hardly be ignored by
the great powers of Europe in any final
settlement of the Turkish question, and
yet it is factor generally overlooked by
critics, If not by statesmen. The dream
of the Greek Of today is that another
empire will rise at Constantinople greater
| than that of the Eastern Caesars, aud that
the departing Mos,em will be succeeded
by the heirs of the Copstantines. 1t s with
this object in view that Greece maintains
an armament far beyond its impoverished
condition to support and endeavors to hold
a respectable place among the naval powers
of the Mediterranean. 1t is for this reason
that Grecian intrigue has str!ven to check
mate the aims and Obstrupt the
ment of Bulgaria in order that no other
state might grow up in the neighborhood
of Constantinople, capable Of preventing the
accomplishment of Grecian designs The
Greek regards himself rightfuy en-
titled to the Inheritance of the sultan's
European dominions, and he looks upon any
competitor Of his own size with jealousy |
and aversion. The great powers, Russia |
England and Austria Hungary, the Greek is
bound to respect and he stimulates, SO far
as he can. their mutual antagonism in order
to profit thereby.
How much the construction by Russia of
the Siberian railroad will contribute to the |
Industrial and social advancement OF the |
empire is beyond all calculation. 1t will make |
the teeming millions of Little West and |
South Russia vastly greater factor in Euro
pean economy than ever before. 1t will be !
well if it shall also make the rest Of |
influential in Russia and lead to the cviza- !
ton and enlightenment of that now darkened |
empire Indeed, there is much promise |
that such will be the Russia Is, of |
course. unable to build equip her own |
railroads. She has to call upon other nations |
to furnish not only engines and cars but |
even rails and metal work for bridges. To |
one French firm she has given an order for |
800 locomotives. But she stipulates that |
these shall be built in Russia. Therefore |
ha Franch ma wil
machine shop and establish an industrial |
town near Kharkov, which will be an i'm
presslve object lesson to the natives. In
this way, by increase of international trade
and travel, by the migration of much of
the over-crowded, squalid and half-savage
population of Southern Russia to the
hospitable expanses of Southern Siberia, and
by the influx of certain leavening element
Of foreign artisans and professional men,
the character of Russia will be gradually
and peacefully transformed and brought into
closer accord with that OF the rest of Europe. |
That is "a consummatlon deyoutly to be
wished" and it is promised by this railroad
expansion more than by anything else in
Russian history
The tenure of Oriental ministers is always
precarous, but of late they have been
shaken far and near, with more than usual
energy, and tumbed out Of their places as II
the earthquakes beneath them, from the
japanese islands to the Mediterranean, par
ticularly fagrant this year, had taken part
in their overthrow. China, Japan and Corea,
like Turkey, Persia and Egypt have had to
change their councillors, some of them more
than once, and not all OF them for the bet
ter. The grand Turk has been obliged to
turn adrift his old advisors in squadrons and
summon new ones, who so far show no sign
of ability to lift him out of the pit into which
himself and his rule have fallen Egypt has
just substituted Mustapha Tehmer Pacha, a
statesman little known in the west, for the
retiring Nubar Pacha, who is we'll known,
with results to her which time will have to
determine. The condition of the Oriental ma
tions is rot as recent events have declared
with much emphasis. one of complete apathy
and somnolence. Indeed, taken altogether,
they respond to the impulses and movements
Of the time with extraordinary spontaneity,
as If they were prepared to shake off the
sleep of ages and take their place again in
the forefront of action. as they did in their
great hs'oric periods which are largely brag,
TO be sure. though there is something in
them.