Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-17
In Other Lands
SIDE Lights on what IN Trans
piring Among the Near and
Tar Nations Of the Barth.

Turkey is again the center Of European
interest and Constantinople underscores
current history. The revolution Of the week
seems to be as complete an overturn Of the
new regime as that OF the old order last
July. In ten short months the people who
acclaimed the new constitution and the
new order. welcomed with great enthus-
iasm the restoration Of the reactionaries
who made the government OF the empire
a reeking disgrace. The former hooters
who fled before the July storm are hurry
ing back to power, passing on the highway
the leaders OF the young Turks party flee
ing from the wrath stored up for this oc-
casion. II is the happening of the ex-
pected. From the moment the progresslves
took control of the government obstacles
arose in every direction. The sweep of Of
flcials was not as sweeping as It should
have been. The sultan was spared. Many
of his TRUSTEES we're tolerated. Scores OF
provincial officials were undisturbed be
cause the revolutionists feared to drive the
axe to the vitals of the machine which
Abdul Hamid constructed during the last
thirty years. With these standpatters as a
nucleus, the willy Abdul, he of meek and
humble mein, was not long in rallying
llft tAAltS, lie OlSCOnlenIeu III ilS army -
dismissed spies, and routing the forces
which had Inundated him. The progress
sives Numbered in other ways. They prom
Used more than they could perform. The
treasury. having been looted clearly and
vast debts created. left them without re-
sources to carry on necessary public works.
Moreover, the army did not receive all the
promised back pay. and this. added TO
Mohammedan hatred of religious and racial
liberalism, were effective instruments in
producing the later revolution. What will
become of the constitution remains to be
seen. One thing is reasonably certain. The
Sick Man of Europe can sit up and take
nourishment. 1t is Adults time to smile.
Price Collier, in a recent book on Eng
land and the English from an American
Point of Vision speaking OF the English
mans reserve and lack of emotion, says:
He Is not Intentionally but constitution
ally. stolid. His food and his climate have
much to do with this. He is not effusive,
not sympathetic. because he is not made
that way. The mind frets not the body.
He is not easily disturbed or moved" etc.
AS an off-hand picture Of the Engiishman
i'm fepose 1t is doubtless true to life. but II
was written before the mythical fleets Of
the invader Swallowed the headlands of the
island. Since then the Englishman has
| shown outward and inward alarm and emo-
ton amazing in quantity and quality. The
extent Of the fears of German aggression
can be appreciated only by reading London
papers of the time. Leading articles dwell
on "Our Danger THE Gravity of the
! Crisis and the Anxious Problem Which
| x1oaoo AIo NTatian - nofiapf nrOcIa Nations |
to the effect that "the scepter of the sea
power is stlll firmly held in Britain's
grasp alternate with warnings that Eng
land is Giving in a naval fools paradise"
Profuse thanks are rendered to New Zea-
! land for its splendid example" In provid-
ing the empire with a Dreadnaught 'in a
moment of stress and crisis" Detailed de-
| scriptions of Krupp's works are printed
| and estimates made of their capacity for
| supplying the armament of Germany's new
fleet. Articles on the aerial menace TO
the navy" describes the German airship
| factory at which 'twenty-four mammoth
! Zeppelin sirships' are to be built, each
capable OF reaching England in ten hours
and doing enormous damage" A two
power airship standard Is advocated In
Parliament. In the correspondence col
umns of the papers "semper Paratus'
writes on German preparations for a sur
prise movement" Women write to ask,
what can woman do for the national de-
fense?' A mimic battle of Hastings is
fought, with a charge of the motor
brigade" to repel invaders. And so on. An
apology to the "stolid" and International
Englishman" is due from Mr.. Collier
There is something doing all the time in
Persia. More is likely to follow before
the shah restores peace in shahdom. There
is reason for this. An American and an
Irishman are credited with having secured
control OF a morlbund revolution and
pumped II full of vim and going power.
1t is the warmest enterprise In that sec
ton and as full OF business as a cram
berry merchant on Thanksgiving eve. The
purpose OF the revolutionists Is to compel
restoration of the constitution. to estab-
lish orderly governments wherever the
authority of the shah is overthrown, and
in most cases they have succeeded. In
Tabriz they have given the people a better
local administration than they ever had
before. Unfortunately, in many places the
revolution has been marked by lawlessness.
It is evident the shah fears the worst and
is said to be anxious to restore constitu-
tiOnal government, provided Great Britain
and Russia Jointly guarantee his person
atty, safety and his job. Should IL prove
true that a pair OF energetic foreigners are
leading the insurgents the shah will save
much anxiety of mind by throwing up the
job at once.
! The voice of the Peace Society of Ger
many does not rise above the whirlwlnd Of
militarism, yet the protest issued by the
meeting recently held at Stuttgart deserves
thoughtful consideration. The protest sets
forth that more than ~S4.OCO,OCO Germans are
dependent on commerce and trade; that
the raw materials they need come for the
most part from abroad, and that war would
spell starvation, II not revolution and the
downfall of the present regime. Since 1897
the expenses of the German army and navy
have risen from 1852. 0O0.oOO to S32S. OOO, 600;
real estate, incomes and every article of
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