The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-09
NOTED AT coNsTANTINoPLE.
The sultan's Government Becoming
 More And More Impossible.

The Sultan's Government Becoming
 More And More Impossible.
 At Constantinople we made our first acquaintance with the Turk, usually called "the unspeakable." He is slow, procrastinating, and as government disinclined to move, and all this is, perfectly natural. His religion for bids progress. It does not recognize the rights of man as man upon which all progress rests. Besides, it is fatalistic; and things can happen in Gods way regardless of hurry or railways or mo- dern facilities. Still more, every Turkish official is surrounded by spies eager to earn their pay by reporting wrongdoing. and any new departure is easily represented as criminal.
 It took us over an hour to get throug the custom house. This was partly due to exceptional circumstances A few weeks ago, when bomb was thrown at the Sultan, one of the ac- cused was found to be an Armenian just come from America. Soon after another American Armenian stabbed merchant in the city for refusing money to revolutionary fund. The result was that Americans were feared as men of dynamite, and our baggage was searched to the bottom. Two or three boks were handed over to a spec ial censor to read. Even my wife's journal was carefully gone through, her gummed-in pictures of William Tell and Augustus with cupids holding him by the legs were severly scanned. T he Turks are afraid of book as we'll as of bambs, for in sense they do the same work. was told of one book on mechanics rejected because it spoke of something making fifty revolutions in a minute" and of chemistry cut-out because H. o. in it was regarded as "Hamio II is no good"
 Knowledge and liberty go together, and the Sultan Is the deadly foe of liberty. He has absorbed in himself the power of the cabinet. His ministers are only his clerks and messengers. All new laws are his decrees, so it is no wonder that it takes two or three year for business to reach a decision. He lives in 8 palace surrounded by walls and guards, with mosque within the grounds. He refuses to go into old Stamboul, even once a year for wor- ship as his predecessors did. He has @ guard about him by night which is paid $8S in gold every morning, In fact, it is said the only men in the en- pire who are promptly and fully paid are the officials near the throne in the capital. Since the last bomb throwing the Sultan is being walled up more than before, and the public will see him no more going to his mosque on Fridays How long Turkey can stand is a question; fall it must some time, for it Is an impossible system in the twentieth century. I have been told that Macedonia is ripe for separation, and that within ten years it is expect ed to become part of Bulgaria, Ausria and Greece, according to the people in different sections of it. A ruler that will not allow 8, telephone in his domin ions nor a. code for telegrams, who has in his capital English, French German and Austrian postoflices, because peo- pie do not trust the government offices officies, whose mother was an Armen- ian, and yet who murders Armenians till he has made all that survive his deadly foes, who cannot allow guns ito be fired announcing fires till tele- gram is sent to the police to explain the shots signify, who has his brother, heir to the throne, kept a prisoner in a palace beside his own, and who lives in terror and suspicion, opposing, like a Moslem pope, all new light an dlife, and breeding corruption and venalitty in all about him-such a ruled seems Impossible. H. M. Scott in Chicago Advance.