The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-02-06
ABDUL HAMID
AND HIS HORDES
TIE BLACK SPOT OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
DR.. JAMES ROSEDALE
Tells in a Graphic Manner of Gus
toms and Usages in Turkey.
written for the Palladium

(Written for the Palladium
The Turkish nation is made up
from the residue Of the renegade
Kurds and Tartars, and has inherit
ed the love of lust in its worst form
and robbing the weak from his ances-
tors Attila, the terror Of his enc
mics, was the chief educator of des-
Iposist and cruelty, and his children
have not only graduated with full
honors in his school. but have out
done him in subtilty and a dipfo-
macy that has worried Europe, for
several centuries.
The Sultan has dubbed himself
with the name of Calipha or Success
sor of Mohammed, the founder of Is
lamism, and added to it, "Mawta
Eddin'' the Saviours of the faith.
The Arabs, who although the right
full descendants of the Prophet, dare
not deny the assumption of their
Master, and quietly wait for their de-
liverance Now and then the Khor-
aish Arabs Of Yumen, in the heart of
Arabia, revolt, but owing to their not
being equipped with the modern en-
oines Of war, are Immediately sub
dued and their leaders summarily
dealt with.
The Mohammedan religion is mix
ture of all creeds Christian, Jewish,
Buddhism and devil worship and
wholly immersed in fatalism
This being the reason of the cour-
age of the Turkish army, in time of
war, as they believe that no one can
die before his time, for every life
and the resurrection of life is record
ed by the Creator, and therefore i'm
mutable Russia is no less a disgrace
to Christianity, but the subjects of
the Gar have still days of jollifca-
tions and festivals to allow them to
forget for little while the heavy
burden put upon them by both church
and state But the poor subject of
the Sultan, especially the Mohamme-
dan, who has no protection whatever,
is In trouble from his boyhood to the
day Of his death. The Turkish laws
demand that every man support the
government. The farmer is expected
to pay poll tax for every male mem
Der of his family, and a tenth part
of all products of his farm cattle,
poultry, field and orchard besides
that at stated times every year, every
male that reaches his eighteenth year,
has to leave his home and 90 as a
soldier for four years, and during
these years Of service he is promised
the munifcent salary Of 80 cents per
month which for the last ten years
has never been paid. This money goes
to furnish the soldier with tobacco,
needles. shoes, blacking and in fact
everything he needs to keep the only
uniform he receives from the govern
ment during the year You can read
lily understand then that the pocket
or salary is virtually given the
soldier by his parents or friends.
The Pashas or governors of the
Turkish provinces, are as a rule. the
most fanatical and ignorant fellows
imaginable, and are generally chosen
when the government learns that they
have no heart in general, and no sym
pathy whatever, but in order to get
the appointment the candidate must
have sufficient money to buy his po-
sition from the Vizier. or State Sec
retary, and as is invariably the case,
the Pasha in reaching the province
where he is to rule arrives there pen
niless, the salary he is supposed to
get has already been promised to the
Vizier and his mermidons. So you
will see how hard the poor Pasha has
to work IN order to make up what he
paid TO get his position, and enough
besides to keep his harem, usually
made up with three or four wives,
md few concubines, besides a large
retinue Of slaves and body guards,