The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-20

What through harems, prisons. pol
sons, sacks for the Bosporus and
midnight daggers, the head that Is
destined for q crown has infinite trou-
BILE In keeping itself In place That
lMohammed v. has wed till he IL SIX
ey-ave shows that times have impFov-
ed and court murders have n out
Of fashion. Under the customs of the
good old days he would have been
food for the Bosporus fishes long g
It must be said for Abdul Hamid that
amid all his other slaughterings he
did not kill his brothers, although he
did lock them up and set spies to
watch them day and night, which to
any man of spirit would be worse than
death.
Mohammed Rechad is gray of head
and rather res Of chin. but educat-
ed, refined and amiable. He reads
French readily, Is do most of the
higher class Of the Young Turks. In
deed, not a little OF the spirit of the
French revolution has been observa-
BILE In the revolution at Constantinople.
The world. after all. is a small place,
and liberty as well as liberalism Is
catching.
The Young Turks.
With a ruler of this character. whose
sympathies have been for years with
the Young Turks and who cheerfully
accepts the restrictions placed about
him by the new constitution, 1t Is read
lily apparent that q better day has
dawned in Turkey and that hence
forth the cal power OF government
will be in the hands of the Young
Turks themselves. The advance made
In the revolution of last July is thus
made permanent The party of prog
ress has broken the old sultan that
dared to oppose it and has ~intrenched
itself so thoroughly that there will be
no further efforts at dislodgment- AS
In England under Cromwell and
| France under the convention. the SOW
ereignty has passed from the crown to
the forum. from the king to the par
| lament Th. people are emerging
| from the hadow of the throne. We
are coming into the kingdom of man.
| Liberty is to be the new political Cos
| pei in all lands. Democracy, having
| captured the occident, Is now storm
ing the strongholds of the orient. 1t is
no longer 50 much a question of the
cross against the crescent as 1t is a
question of progress against privilege
The Young Turks are imbued with the
spirit of the twentieth century. are
trying to keep step with western Eu.
o p and America. They stand for the
reign of common sense, common hu
manity. common decency. They are
democrats in turbans. They nave
shown to Christian nations that the
conquest denied to the sword of the
crusader has been granted to the
torch Of science and the wand of free
dom. In this case peace hath her vie
tories transcending those of war
The results of this revolution are inf
nitely hopeful, the most hopeful signs
cen in recent days.
Three conspicuous leaders of The
Young Turks are Ahmed Ria, the
president of the chamber of deputies
Genera Schefket Pasha, b command
er of the victorious army that has jus
captured Constantinople. and Envel
Bey, his assistant in command. Il
whom Schefket Pasha chiyalrousl,
gives credit for planning the cam
paign. All three of these men hav,
gained many Of their e through
contact with the outside world, Ahmed
Ria through Punishment from hi
country and Schefket Pasha through
education in Germany. Enver Be,
was in Germany at the time the recen
revolt broke out, but hurried home fl
time to organize for b march on Con
stantinople, which has resulted In tn
reinforcement Of Abdul Hamid.
The Hymn Of Liberty.
These men will do much to shap
the course of empire under the reigl
of Mohammed v. 1t Is significant tina