The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-10
ABDUL The DAMNED.
Interesting Facts Concerning
the DeSpot of the East.
CONTRIBUTES LARGE SUMS
To Charity and Is Moved to
Tears by Tales of Misery,

Paris. March s-There has just come
10 aris z Gree, Dluitri ArgyropouIo VINO.
Ike many Of his coratrynen. held Cor
years an important place % trust at the
Tildtz Kiosk. he vas. Up TO The time OF
his resignation. CHIEF clerk Of the perman-
ent star q the foreign Office. 3Ir Argy-
ropoulo knows probably as weu IS any
man living. who dares tell what he knows
ire terrible Red Sultan-'.Ab5ul. the
Damned. 70 quote the English poet-aad
he speaks with freedom which. II exer-
cised IN Turkey would proha5.y result IN
this abrupt and final Disappearance.
Abdul IS neither demon escaped from
the pit says ne nor an angel 81 light
and mercy. He Is Just an eastern despo-
surrounded BY eastern conseuoda. To-
setaer they govern much as the Caliphs
of the .Arabisn Nights did that is 10 say
with no sense Of the rights Of She people
or of the sancnty Of human life when L
stands II the way Of their wil They
prefer 10 90 good, as long rs there Is no
state reason Or 6ynasuc necessity for
doing harm"
Al the h+deO-s crimes with which the
sultans memory VIII be forever stained
in history are 70 his mind only an an-
pleasant necessity Of the art Of governing
the sasI. says Mr. ArgyroDoulo. abdul
Hand governs in this own way. the only
way he knows: the way Of 8Iahomet and
Of all the Ottoman rulers who followed
him
The reforming sultan N0urad whom
Abdui Hamid replaced would nave been
constant and most serious menace 10
the peace q The state Abdul keeps him
forever Imprisoned. or. as some say. has
had him secretedly assassins-ed and
heaved from the bridge OF aGlata 10
float away down the deep. dark-aow.ng
Bosphorous The Armenians were tu--
5ulent SO b did not mind the Klrds
killing them IKE sheep ard his own jan
issaries helping the murderers People
who irritated him personally or who con-
spirad to alter the condition o1 things n
the government were BY thar very fact
dangerous 10 the country: II was holy
and wholesime thought 70 have them
dragged CT poisoned and flung - the
sharks Before they could do harm. These
are the ideas that Justify the sultan to
himself And they DO ret prevent hin
from showing most paradoxical tender
ness OF heart II affairs where his politi-
cal ideas and his personal safety are not
involved
Tor instance, this terrible potentate.
before whom his most trusted ministers
trem5e. is often. SAYS 3I- Argyr0poulo.
moved TO tears by some riteous letter
from a peasant OF the far interior whose
wine crop has been blasted and who has
hirsd the village scribe to recount MS
misfortune 10 the king, Lord. Protec-
tor Of The Faithful and Doing-Hand ~
Allah" And the Doing Hand" dies
The grim sultan. touched ay the misery
ard The simplicity II his petitioner. sends
orders thar the man re relieved. mention
ing the sum 70 be given II S. estimated
thar the sultan spends in this way some
s2ooooo from ont OF his private purse year
IS. H contributes also large sums ev-
cry wear n hospitals and schools main
tanned BIZ Greeks. Arme1ians and Jews
in Constantnopls and Smyrna. for
ne- sultan az Turkey. mr. the way. sent
a shipl7ad Of wheat and dEs 20 ireland
n a. the terrible famine year. when
slack misery hrooded over the scarcely
known lard lar away in the "un5e.ievingr
north.
To his servants and attendants also
Abdul IS very generous yhen he does not
think they are hankerLuE 70 assassirsre
him. # that idea gets into his mind
they are likely n drop out unoatrusivelv
from circulation, h1t otherwise he s-rews
their path with flowers, OF. 70 SPEAK d.
rectlv. he presses jewels money. honors
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