The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

SELF race TO race WIFI JIG 1o'l, ut'i =.
gaunt-eyed Asiatic, who styles himself
commander Of the faithful and shadow
of God on earth.
Abdul Hamid proved to be in a more
suspicious mood than my friend in
Paris. AS soon as I mentioned the
peace rescript he interrupted me.
81 am not going to disarm. / know
what the Christian powers are. by this
time. They always begin to talk about
peace when they are secretly preparing
to attack somebody"
CT am afraid your majesty is right.
The question is, what is the real design
underlying this particular piece OF n.y.
IT know that, too was the unex-
pected reply. "The Russians have de-
cided to turn their attention to
China. There they can do all that they
want with hundred thousand men:
the burden of great army which will
not be wanted for a generation. :,
This was an ingenious idea, but it did
not satisfy me, any more than the semi
official one had done. I ventured to
object: 3. s a
no occasion were all sire, there would be
no occasion Tor this melodramatic APP
nothing to hinder Russia from reduc-
ing her ornaments by one-half tomor-
row. No one dreams of attacking her.
| Her army is kept up for offence, not for
defence. She is the one power that
could afford to set the example of dis
banding, and such an example would
| carry more weight than any number
of professions on paper, however well
| meant
The sultan appeared struck by this
| reasoning.
"Then what do you say is the object
behind this rescripta'' he demanded.
to find out if your majesty will furnish
me with the necessary means.'
Abdul Hamid gave me distrustfu]
glance. 49, =. =.
1T is an expensive thing to buy in
formation, from the council Of state, -
he grumbled.
"You are right, sire. And the higher
one goes, the more expensive it be-
comes. It is clear that this move has
been engineered by persons who are
able to manage the czar himself, and
such persons are not likely to sell theil
own game for much less than a million
Abdul Hamid quivered at the men
ton of this sum as though I had de-
manded one of the eyes out of his head
'Mhy should &c. to this expense9'
that 7 am not. going to disarm. > "
1.-The question is whether Won are
Willing to see Germany and Austria
d1sarm, leaving you to face Russia sin
gle handed. Surely it is worth hun
dred thousand pounds to Turkey to pre-
vent 4ns her allies from falling into sucl
The sultan still hesitated.
How Go know that T shall ge
anything in return. if I trust you witt
THIS money?' he asked suspiciouslv
our majesty must Judge me b,
Wnat l have done already. Two dav
ago you had never heard nv name
7 10Y am an1,d here alone with you, with
sultan SUI started Violently discussi in
the secrets Of your foreipn >nolicy
DOES }e5 that look as tho I were a fool9'
Inc commander of the faithful ga
snent,. attentivelY regarding me fo
some minutes. Finally he disrnisse
me, promising to consider my. proposa1
wo1,G Tl dnn1' confident that 5Abdu
and that Muzaffr would see that T ~,
my way. '''' : ~
a week later I was back in Paris
WIN an autograph letter from the sui
Ian &c 70 MS ambassador in. Russia, and
dra1t on the Ottoman bank which
LOOK the precaution to exchange for :
ietter OF credit from a. private Parisia,
burg. : : VI : o'0l
l., MY intention was to go to Russia i
the character of a French inancia
agent, the representative of a. svndj
cate of Paris bankers, on the lookon
Tor profitable concessions from the GOV
erment of the czar In this wav
hoped to be able to approach Unfit
. entail persons without exciting susp
e1on, and to ascertain their corruptibi
, 1ty before exposing my secret object.
necessary for me to indulge in an
actual deceit. AS matter of fac
the demand for foreign capital to d,
velop Russian properties is a steadil
, increasing one, and I had no difficult