Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-02
DOODLE AND GRATING
COMMON IN TURKEY
CORRESPONDENT Points Out Rosy
Advantage for Some of
American Politicians.
&c. c. Young.)

&c. G. Young)
Constantinople, Turkey, March 4. 1908.
There is much yet to write about
Turkey and the great capitol. Constan-
tinople. but viii only venture in one
more article.
Political "boodlers" are as common
here as anywhere in the world, and
the conditions which produce such
practice are worse than In most
places. One example is sufficient. A
Judge is only in office for two years.
II costs him lots of money to get in
Office and be is paid only twenty-five
dollars month. Thus you see he
has to regain what he has spent in
appointment for Office by Doodle" In
the trials which come before him. For
political reasons no Turkish citizen is
permitted to go as a resident to. any
other country. II he escapes from
Turkey and is naturaIized in the
United States and returns to Turkey
on a visit he may be cast in prison.
as Turkey says. "once citizen ofTur-
key, a man must be forever"
No citizen is permitted to go abroad
in any other country without a pass
port and man must have money and
political influence to obtain this.
A prominent young man in CONSTANT
nople wanted to go to America and
did not want to pay his money for the
purpose of securing through official
lines a passport. He slipped through
the custom house, and clerk, 10y
al Turk, betrayed him and he was ar
rested and cast in prison. The father
of the young man being an official,
secured his release without further
legal process. Otherwise he would
have still been in Jail or sent in
Punishment TO some place in Arabia
where there is no hope OF escape. Sew
eral prominent Turkish educators and
publicists are all now either in prison
or in exile In the out of way places in
Arabia.
The only thing the Sultan is now
fearing is that which in his hands
he has taught many of his subjects to
fear, guns and bayonets. But the guns
and bayonets he fears are those of
England and America. The present
president of Robert college in Con
stantinople, an American endowed and
supported shool in the city is a fine
example of the fact of the Sultan's fear
In the riots of the American massacres
OF 1886 he was in an up-country school
among Armenian and Greek people.
He stood in the door of his house
waving flag over his head and de-
fled the Turks to touch him, or harm
his family, and they deferred, and
wisely too. The man who carries the
fire brand knows it will burn; and
the Turks who carried the bayonets
which had killed thousands knew how
an anglo-saxon weapon would feel
when drawn in revenge on the Sui
tan's empire.
An explanation. The words Moslem.
Islam and Mohammedan mean the
same thing when you see them used
in writing. Mohamet, the so-called
prophet was born in Persia and from
him the system of religion called
Moslem Islam, or Mohammedanisn
sprang and in one or the other forms
lives in Turkey, Arabia, Palestine.
Egypt, India, Philippine Islands, Java,
and French Africa.
The real weakness of the whole
! system, aside from the lack of Christ
| in it, is the universal recognition of
plural wives and the inferior station
| thus assigned wcmankind. From
these two basic witnesses spring all
others that will finally either destroy
or reform the empire, and make a new
Turkey. The Moslem code does not
permit women to mingle with men in
any persuit and this is a weak point
Thus the influence of woman counts
I for little or nothing, and the followers
/ OF Islam the world over are sluggards
In intelligence and mental persufts
In the Philippines the Mohammedans
are the lowest of human society; in
Java they are just awakening to the
necessity OF education; in India they
are further behind than any OF theft
neighbors who are not of Islam; in
Egypt they are barely in sight, bring
ing up the rear line of progress. as
they are also in Syria, Arabia, ant
Palestine. Turkey as a whole is Jus
as bad as these I have mentioned
with only this difference. Near tn.
sea port towns, and in and arouns
Constant1nople there has been con
tact with Christian civilization ant
education and the sleeping monster Il
awakening.
They are beginning to see that ed
ucation, and not the lack Of it, Il