The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17
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 The civilized world Is just begin ning to realize how great was the bioodiess revolution which has changed the course of Turkeys history. In that country. which seemed to be en- cased in an fmpervious shell of ancient traditions. the Young Turks" have suddenly and to their own surprise. without doubt. secured control of the government over all the power and protest of the Sultan.
 The news dispatch yesterday con- tained notice of the resignation of the Grand vizier. the last of the responsi- bIe officials of the old order. It would now seem that the victorious revolu- tionists who shed no blood would be in complete control of the government.
 It seems like the irony of fate that autocratic Russia, where so many des- perate wrongs were doIis should fail to secure any form of liberty after all these years of sacrifice and struggle. and after so many martyrs should have laid down their lives. while Turkey achieved liberty without death and practically without a struggle
 Turkey. to the outerworid. is dark and gloomy country, which let's but little news of its internal affairs slip into the western world Just how the revolution was achieved we hardly know. even now. but that 1t was com plete we may not doubt. There were i've men. 1t is said, all of them under forty. who inausurated this remarka- ble revolution. One was a naval of- ficer. another an astronomer and an- other . college professor. while the other two were of the professional classes, so far as that class is recog- nized in Turkey. To the Sultan these men. were like Cassius. "They were dangerous. They thought too much" s They met and discussed the unfor- tnnate plight of their country--a coun- try which rocked along in the same rut of a thousand years ago. without pride in the past and without hope of the future. They simply met and talked about 1t, They did not know the sentiment of their own country; there was no way of learning 1t as they might have done if in western country.
 The game they played was periious. They were tampering with 6 govern ment, which had been the most auto cratic and the most cruel of Europe. For much less than what they did men had lost their heads. And yet these five men were what might be called political doctrinaires." They were secretly urging political revolution which sought to establish ideas which to Turkey were not only, novel but which were diametrically opposed to the history and traditions of theITurk- ish Ottoman Empire.
 But the time was ripe for them and their projects. They salIied forth at the very moment opportunity knock ed. The seeming stability of the old order was on the surface; beneath the sur face all was seething discontent. And without death the Young Turks seizeG the government of their coun- try.
 There comes now the diSQuleting news that. like the committee which had charge of the French Revolution and which made so many cruel mis- takes, the Young Turks can not stand the test of victory. The whole of Eu- rope takes 6 deep interest, as far as it can in Turkish affairs. and the news that the Young Turks have arbitra- rily thrown over the Grand vizier and that they propose to run the govern ment without respect to the past or deference to foreign nations has had a disquieting effect. The trouble that they have avoided in such a remarlxa- ble manner may again be just ahead of them while the road seems so fair and SO promising.
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