Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14


sixty-five to fifty-eight years.
The Military League accepted this So
luton of the problem. but Lieut.. Tioaidos
spurned II as inadequate. and secretly
convened a meeting OF naval officers who
all signed a document laying down their
minimum demands. Then they retired
to the Island of Salamis. where the ar.
senal Is situated. seized the arsenal and
inaugurated armed revolt
The Military League now issued
proclamation disowning the action or
Tibaldos. The latter is reported 20
have then assumed command OF
marines and demanded that he should
be made the minister of marine. To
this the Military League refused its
assent and Tibaldos retired TO enforce
his demands. If necessary; by force.
Premier Mavromichalis does not APP
pear to have lost his coclness. nut
proceeded to inform the chamber OF
deputies of the event. declaring that
government was determined to sup
press the outbreak by force. Happily.
he said. the movement was limited.
The ministers were occupied SERIOUSLY
in bringing about reforms in all
branches of the administration and
would not neglect the navy. the I'M
patience of whose officers was un1usti-
fed The premier added that II the
naval officers had been led astray the"
still had time to rehabilitate them
selves.
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The government. however. with that
curious characteristic of the nation,
hesitated and permitted
Tibaldos' Tibaldos to carry out
p.u.,. his plans before any
measures were taken in
opposition. Early the 10Th the govern
ment dispatched a friendly officer TO
-I>;l ,tc
curious design. Nevertheless. measures
were taken to prevent the concentra-
ton OF his command and, although
he induced only few officers to man
his fiotilla, Tibaldos prepared for ac-
ton.
The same day October o9) the gov
eminent awoke from it's apparent
apathy and ordered a regiment of in
fantry and battery of field guns 20
dislodge Tibaldos from the arsenal. The
warships. having refused to join the
insurgents. attacked the arsenal and
after vigorous fire. lasting twenty
minutes. the resistance collapsed. The
dispatches concerning ths matter are
somewhat vague. Lieut.. Tibaldos. II
appears. however, escaped. but a cable
from Athens, dated November 4, re-
ports that 'Lieuts. Tibaldos and Dim
oulis had been arrested and that all
the principals were now in custody.
NJ. Emile Faguet in the Journal des
Debats has written under the title of La
Greco Eternelle" and cites NJ. Gomez
Garlic under the same as saying that the
Greeks of today have varied little since
the time of Pericles.
We have a political and commercial in
terest in the Greek. who has come and
who continues to come, in great numbers
to America, and il is well to know the
soul of the modern Greek who may count
for something in the evolution Of the
American.
The men are active and of quick in
telligence, perhaps too quick; excellent
speakers. They are
Characteristics imbued with the mer-
n.h camille spirit and the
spirit of emigration
and travel NJ. Edmond About said of
the Greek fifty years ago: THE French
peasant dreams of adding to his fields of
cultivation; the Greek peasant thinks of
selling them. Stop a bourgeois in the
street and ask him il he wished to sell
his shoes. He would bargain with you
at once. Il DESIRE said Beule to his
Greek servant. ito sell my horse: look
up a buyer" Il will buy him." You?
What do you want with a horse?' ITO
hire MIN TO you by the day.
The Greek is a born emigrant and
traveller. He was so in ancient times
and Is the same today. He has one
quality which renders him, in many re-
spects, a useless citizen Of the United
States-he never changes his nationality,
but dreams ever OF returning to his be-
loved Hellas. Ulysses. with the fleeing
image of his beloved Ithaca, is as true
a type of the modern Greek as of the
ancient.
The writer has seen evidence Of the
Greeks migratory habits in quest of COM
merce, his leading passion, in many coun-
tries which were reputed almost unknown
to the white man-in Suakim, Berber,
khartum and Fashoda, before the ad-
vent of the English. 1t is to be remarked
and China, and for manifest reason, the
Japanese and the Chinese offering but
a small field for his operations, both
of these being more than a match for
him in commerce.
The coming Of the Greek to the United
compliment by the American, who, al
though he boasts of his commercial ca
pacity and methods, has much to learn,
according to the United States consular
reports, which continually arraign our
merchants. manufacturers and exporters
Tor their careless methods and utter ig-
nOrance, in many cases, of the needs and
wishes OF their foreign buyers.
The Greek knows his history we'll.
When he goes to d foreign country he
leaves his idyls and his
Greek women in Greece as roo sa-
History cred for transportation. He
goes in quest of commerce
as he once went to war or to besiege
Troy. At home in Athens he may be
gay and even eccentric and encourage
these qualities in spirit of cynical
mirth as he did 1000 years ago. when
he applauded Alcibiades, who cut off the
tail Of dog which had cost that &C.
centric general 1000 drachmas-for the
pleasure OF the populace. The modern
Greek in a foreign land INDUCES in no
such pastime. He is away from home
for money, and has no pleasure or time
for aught else.
NJ. PhiladelOs, who processes ancient
Greek literature. declares: That which
| ruins the Greek at home is the continual
fluctuations of political questions and the
continual changes in government And
besides, there is no financial honesty i'm
the orators who ruin the country
What with a parliament in which the
country can place small confidence a mu-
tinOus army, the threatened abdica ton
of the king, the probable renewal of the
Cretan question. TO which may be added