The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-30

A. fH1 FEBtT1f E<1Fe 13 y IEss4as4F sssfsis-
.~as situation which has long been threat
essfnr 30 plunge ali Europe into war. Abb
dsss-HAnsiG. the present ruler of Turkey.
se fssst rnw the object of more attention
TRAN any other man I'm the world. more
anxiety aud arin18sssy, more criticism.
and mere inquiry and speculation He IL
MOI only fire bette noire uf all the great
powers ~ the continent, bat he is their
gfurnl.s0g hloek their "oId mar Gf the
sea a dread uncertainty tn their path
way. mysterious pAansasm which may
at any moment become a horrible re-
atty.
The assazssn who sits on The throne
OF Turkey ss the way In which Glad
stone speaks of him: him whom | wish
always To call the great assassin The
tiaodrhIrsfy fyrant Of ms lsszpf4oras-
ssfse crowned ASSASSIN Of Tlldsz Kiosk,
'tsge reckless Imperial mailman" are
among the terms applied to him by the
Earl OF Meath IN recent mag
sxsne article His Satanic ma
sesty the sultan ia the tile
given him By John Burns. the
workingman's member ~ tie British
parliament. AZ he proceeds TO speak OF
'.tsN satanic lust for blood that the sui
tar had siispIa yed. >" As 10 the sultan"
savs the editor OF La Jeune Turauie,
Paris. he is possessed Of intelligence. but
hr IL FL reality insane 1.-The Madness
ard Fury OF the Bioodthirsty Sultan" IL
tine subject Of recent notable article BY
praf II. Anthony SaiorHe. prominent
writer in fhe English reviews His OBJ
Jact 81 evidently tn sweep from his do
minions the hated gianur. either by death
or Punishment" says the Earl OF Meath
fri recent number of the Nineteenth Cen-
turg. Having murdered son Armeniails.
he tn now depcrflng the rest TO the In
hospssahis shores NJ Anatolsa AID to 9TH
oY distant portions ~ his empire, where
Death awaits them. either by starvation
or at the hands OF mobs of fanatlcal
Nussulmans''
England. who 10 at once The greatest au
fh0rity In the Britain isles on Turkish
subjects. and the most active agitator
against the sultan has filed his latest
beck. 'sThe Sultan and the Powers
f>ssnEnaans. 1406 with "A series Of inver-
tlsea It would be hard TO match elsewhere
IN the English language. He speaks OF
Abdul Hamid. who began his novitate
Of infamy In Bulgaria. as .'thc ab1ect
coward Of yildiz Kiosk "a red-handed
murderer" "the arch-crimnaf Of Yildiz
Eaak. . "a man whose cowardce is equal
tn his cruelty" THE criminal maniac at
rildlz Kiosk, .'this savage barbarian"
'tlsa miserable poltroon of Yildiz Kiosk"
'the greatest criminal Of the nine
fesnth century. wretch compared To
whom Jack the Ripper might almost be
regarded as a respectable person. and
90 on throughout the volume.
Not Misnamed.
Now, these views and descriptions OF the
sultan must necessarily appear exaggerat-
ed on this side of the ocean, says the Chi
caso Inter Ocean. where our journalists
and magazine writers have not felt called
upon TO discuss the affairs Of Turkey ex-
haastively, but they are nevertheless per-
feetly correct. Abdul Hamid Is all these
eminent authorities have painted him. He
has caused old hulks to be filled with OBJ
noxious Christians and sent them TO be
scutsled into the depths OF the Black sea,
lie has decorated and otherwise honored
the most notorious miscr~ants and assas-
sins Responsible for the outrages upon his
ch-iaiian subjects. During the massacres
following the raid on the Ottoman bank of
Consfantinopie last September. when the
eekl victims referred 10 above met their
doom. the sultan could have stopped these
assassinatsons at any moment. but allowed
shem TO 60 on for three days as a conces-
sion to the rage Of his people against the
Armentans.
To say that the reign of this man during
the last twenty years has cast the lives OF a
million men, women and children. under
every circumstance Of horror and cruelty,
would be mild way OF indicating the enor-
mites resting upon his shoulders. Nor is
this view Of him that of the Christian
weird aioase: II IL also that OF vast NUM-
hers of his own people. and was such on
his advent to power. For instance. i'm 1916,
Mehemet nudschi Pasha. who had been
grand yixier of the empire many years.
FASTENED 10 send In his resignation. a par
ticular friend having begged him to with
draw that document. Mehs,net responded
I'll took me ten years 20 ind ont what sort
OF man was Abdul Aziz. but have found
e,t Abdul Hamii In that number of days,
Stree the foundation OF the empire no man
30 Htrociousiy dangerous has ever mounted
the throne"
West" saws Ahmed Riza rey, who Is ORG
81 the brightest OF the newer Turkish
writer's Ill that Is said Of the harem and
the scrHgiio has yelled aud mysterious
air Hike ones "reminiscences of The Thou
sand and one Nights" True as this Is IN
ordinary times under ordinary ctycum~
sfaures how much moro seriously does the
wonder weird Of the Orient loom up 10 our
aaxs at such moment as the present
shen an empire and throne are being
whiriea away nv the inexoFshle logic OF
events snto tho hotfemieSs depths of uhliV
tnnf II Wall he we'll therefore. for us 10
take q hassk .it the sultan ard his surround
inEs as t6e first step toward comprehend
Ing sae great storm csnter which for twen-
~ years has been developing in Southeast
ern Easope.
rho ~assan'. Residence.
The sultan lives at yildfx Kiosk. about
three mites from Sonstsnsinorie ~ Way 81
pera at the foot OF the tirSt range Of Euro
reau hills hartfersag the sosphoTus. The
-eaS thitherwari is always dusty ard
crowded as welt AS crooked and uneven,
and know 81 no more assagreeahlo 3osir-
iaes Of the same length than 10 drive out
there ~ Friday TO see tire commander ri
the faithful xo ~ the mosque 10 say hts
prayers Although habttuaiiy spoken Of az
q palace. tie eaisgice was originally a sum.
glsf villa. where Ahsful AxiG. the uncle of
shs present ruler, used 20 pass few hours
.iatly during the siog days. IL IL situated IN
sha midst of a iarKe park comparatively n
ti4e country and ~ surrounded hy dark
groves. with SHUT IL II from observation
from Its Land approaches Wrtti y0a are
,.lose upon Il. Feom the water il - a
slightly ehiScs. as also fr0n tire cYeStS oi
tive hills behind e. IN 1--WE in sgeh g plsse
would never have occurred to Abdul Azis
who rad found Bashskgasf ara psissta.
estcske the vast esfttiees he h@a blmsa}:
erected. TOO srasai tor him and bits harvn
tn rh5s beautiful sros esnse however
Abaus Haand After tf1s tragic deSth pf hiz
asnei,t ~ assassination ~ Suicide fesagS
enc helSs HIS eSsn theory Hn6 the mad
ress &c his brother aud immediate pre>se-
cesser ~bo Is either dead or shut SAP foe
csar knowaA iN kiosk tnst under t@s
helxsss % Xiid}s- ta passing ~ the steam
sr Z hava eftsn sgeSssslsted as ~ what
sA,sas y ASS eastabe.~ssu isnsssetle nrsuc@. ~
s>s}S eAfaaers Ea ans ease. a great sen
station w8s cAuseS2 yhs otter say throaeh-
Gas E8r0ma eS vsFNFJ tgrNzapsle rs9tgas-
stfcSe 4Ae that Faad AkGs&x hAa NJ atfs sis