Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-08-18
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United States Promptly.
NO MORE DETERMINATIONS
American Schools I'm the Suitan's
Domain Will Receive the Same
CONFEDERATION AS schools OF
Other Foreign Countries.
Csnstantinople, Aus. 15.-After
prolonged posrPlers and ccnsidera-
bic haegllng ON the part OF the
Turks, q satisfactory solution of the
American school question has been
arrived. This matter, which IL the
MOI Important of the American de-
mas.sis, was settfea by extehdfHS 70
American schools the same treat
ment ms that accorded to schools
nnder the protection Of other pow
ers.
Washington. Aug. 15.-The following
is a statement of the pending Ques-
tions with Turkey, and the steps taken
towards their adjustment:
For many years the treatment Of
educational establishments In the Ot-
toman empire. founded and conducted
by American citizens, has been very
unsatisfactory. While similar schools
under the direction of other foreigners
have been recognized as existing, and
have been accorded the regular license
or imnerial firman upor, application
therefor. applications on behalf of the
schools under American control have
nassed unnoticed. Temporary. permits
obtained from the local authorities
have been hedged in with restrictions,
and have not infreauently been ig-
uored hy the Turkish government.
maiculties and obstructions have
constantly been mt In tba way of the
American teachers. In marked contrast
IN the favor shown the schools of other
nationalities and in contravention of
the rights of American citizens in Tur-
KEY to the most favored treatment ac-
corded to the citizens or subjects of
other states.
This discrimination was especially
noticeable with regard to the Protes-
tant medical college at Beirut, in the
matter of examinations and the right
of graduates to exercise their profess
sion. The United States government
claimed for the American school the
same privileges accorded the French
medical school at Beirut No such ma
terial difference was seen In the
schools as to warrant the discrimiina-
tion nract;sed the difference being
chiefs in the system OF government
oe France and the JJnited States. The
Protestant medical college holding
official authorization from, and having
the snperyision OF the state Of New
York from which is derives its char
ter vas entitled to be regarded as a
national institution as much as the
French school.
Tho earnest efforts Of the American
minister at Copstantinople to secure
for our school and teachers the simple
rua,itv If treatment to which they are
entitled having met with eyasiye and
dilatorv treatment bv The sublime
norte. and no proeress having been
made toward a better understanding
Tho president took the matter In hand
and on February q 1902 cabled tc
Minister Ieisbman. directing him tc
seek an audience of the sultan In or.
der tn deliver to him a personal mes.
sage from The president OF GOOD will
and assurances of his hearty desire 20
cultivate and maintain The most cor.
dial relations of. friendship and tf
hiring to the personal and direct atten.
tion of his majesty ths embarrass-
ments and grievances under which this
government and it's citizen,, labor with
exnrass;on Of tho nresident,s desir,
and axpectat,on that the treatment O,
the most favored nation world be re
ceived and the claim of our colleges
and schools 10 aonal rights would h
nronn,lv recooo;zed
Mr. Ieisbman.s reouest for an audi.
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course of which one of the grounds O