Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-01

~ NNih VI hAIANAAaAiN EHNNhlhAlbhs VII
Hamid IL TO Mehmed V in a giant stride
for constitutional government in Turkey
and the east. The walled prisoner at
SalOniki represents the doom Of autocracy.
His successor overflows with the spirit of
the Young Turks, who now control the
destines of the empire. Time alone will
measure the fruits Of the victory. What fs
OF pressing diplomatic interests is the bear
ing OF the change Of Turkish rulers on the
balance power of Europe. WIN it occa-
sion a few more discords in the concert of
the powers? What division of the powers
will have a controlling null with Sultan
Mehmed? A satisfactory answer would
command prize money at any of the chan
c%ellories. When the Young Turks seized
the reins of power last July the belief was
widely expressed that Great Britain and
its allies were i'm close touch with the re-
formers. Subsequent events failed to con
firm the belief. On the contrary events
tended to confirm a distinct leaning toward
the allied powers of Germany and Austria.
The refusal OF Turkey TO become a party
to q demonstration against the annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria
substantially aided in the contamination of
the extension of Teutonic power into the
heart Of the Balkans. II this absteution is
not a clear indication of intent. the con-
coded dominance of German power in Cen
trai Europe can hardly fail to impress it.
self on the new occupant Of the Yildiz
Kiosk. Austria Is pushing a railroad to
Saloniki and the sea, an enterprise that
makes increased trade relations. Germany
is financing a railroad through Asiatic
Turkey with protected terminals on the
Perusian gulf. The future influence Of
these enterprises and the close trade re-
~latlons they will foster, foreshadow the
dominating influence Of the Dreibund in
the looked-for uplift of the Ottoman empire.
An official announcement from the
French minister of justice shows that the
liquidation OF church property IN France.
taken over under the law of separation of
church and state, has resulted in a lump
sum OF nearly 100000. 200. Considerable OF
the total has been absorbed by the lawyers
and courts. The balance will be handed
over to the N to be funder for
poor relief. Bishops palaces will be turned
into high schools for boys and girls. tech
nical schools and museums. Communes are
to dispose OF the manses as they thing fit.
The artistic properties are to remain in the
possession OF the church, but under the
safekeeping of the civil authority. All the
churches are daily open as heretofore for
services. The bells toll and chime in the
belfr1es as OF old.
German emigration for 1905 fell to the
lowest figure in thirty years. the total be-
ing 1890. The quarterly report Of the
statistics of the empire, a reliable au-
thority, traces the rise and fall of the en-
pire's emigration tides for a number OF
years, and notes with evident satisfaction
| that tho axhafStfp6 c1raor,g 80 For,oar
years have been reduced to a ripple. The
high tide was reached in 1881 when 10000
persons left the Fatherland. Since then
the number steadily decreased. until the
low point of 1905. The report does not bear
out the claim of German emigration to
South America In sufficient numbers to
have any particular effect on the native
population. Out of last years total only
1900 went 10 other countries other than
North America The natural increase of
the population of Germany last year was
10000 souls, consequently Germany lost
by emigration about 2 per cent of its in
crease OF population, The uplift OF the
nation in all lines Of activity in the last
twenty years have made opportunities in
the Fatherland as attractive to the in
dustrious and ambitious as any land under
the sun.
Sydney Brooks, London correspondent Of
American papers, has taken to task a num-
Der of editors from New York to San
Francisco, who are prone to scott at the
blessings of English rule in India" MIR.
Brooks insists that the blessings are all
wool and a yard wide, and only the obtuse
and ungrateful native Indians refuse to
accept them at par value. An illustration
OF some OF the "blessings' conferred on
the natives is given by Charles Cawley of
Bombay. in an interview in the Baltimore
American. When l first went to the
orient" he says, 1.-THE women of the upper
class commonly owned and wore thick
chains and bracelets of the finest gold and
of exquisite workmanship. In these times
OF pinching poverty they are too reduced
financially to possess any expensive orna-
ments, and instead of the gold trinkets of
their affluent days they now wear cheap
plated or Imitation stuff they would form
erly have d~espised. 1t is pitiable TO wit
ness, as / have, the decline in the fortunes
of the people. AFFECT poverty everywhere.
and the gaunt spectre Of sta rvation is ever
at the side of millions of human beings in
that Inflated land"
An admirable representative OF "a proud
and fearless race" is f. T. Bethel, pug
nacious British editor whose pen jabs 50
i~rritated the Japanese overlords at Seoul.
Korea, that they succeeded through a
British consular court in convicting him
on the charge of sedition and sending him
10 Jail at Shanghai for six months. While
In jail a Shanghai paper published some
libelous matter about him. Upon his re-
lease the Shanghai publisher failed to
prove the charges in court and was Obliged
to pay Bethel as damages a sum of money
much greater than he could have earned
with his paper in the same time. with
this bunch OF Shanghai money in his
pocket and his pen overlooking with wrath.
Bethel is back in Seoul, pumping hot stuff
into the Japs. Nothing short Of knife
= thrust in some vital part will shut off the
= hot air compressor with which Bethel Is
working overtime.
A recent manifesto issued by the United
Association OF French Civil Servants de
i tails the principal grievances which pro
voked the strike Of last March, and are a.
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