The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04
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New York banker, may back the en-
terprise. The new administration
now faces some serious questions.
however, among the number being
the efforts of Greece to secure the
Island of Crete.
In the ancient kingdom of Persia,
lcng an absolute monarchy, the Shah
established constitutional government,
then retracted, but under pressure re-
established the constitution in 1909.
Russian and English influence and
jealousieS play the leading roles in
Persian politics. Later the Persian
Nationalist. or progressives depoSed
Shah ALI, he was depOrted to Russia,
and his tWelve-year-old son enthroned
While Russia and England established
a prOtectorate owe the kingdom, guar
anteeing it's integrity. Thus he un-
happy little Shah is a sovereign but in
name, Persia will soon drop to the
class of Egypt, but at least a new day
of individual liberty, if not of nation
al independence, has daWned for her
people.
The Orient.
Japan has pursued her steady pro-
gressive policy. She is developing
Korea, perhaps at the expense of the
natives, and pouring Japanese imnni-
grants into that land at the rate of
100000 a year. The Koreans are Tar
from satisfied under Japanese rule
dIlO 1SCS1Il1y a. 11oi plii IN :
bumi Ito, president Of the Privy Coun-
Gil of Japan, was assassinated by q
Korean. A Japanese commission
is now visiting the United States ana a
deep aid scheme for control Of Man
churia and virtual ownership Of China
by Japan is causing the world Pow
ers much uneaSiness.
The preservation Of the integrity of
China, the European Powers and the
United States know, will curtail Japan
and prevent her mastery of the East
for her own selfish ends. A trade
treaty between Japan and China has
been executed for the construction Of
the Manchuria railways. China is in
the dawn Of a great industrial deVel-
Opment The Importance OF the Unit
ed States having a financial interest
in that great market is recognized and
our government has secured for a
New York syndicate part of the $27,-
500, 900 loan to China for railroad
construction. The United States re-
stored to China $14, OGO, 600 indemnity
paid in the BoXer troubles and China
will use this sum for public education.
European vents.
The King of Spain has had a trou-
blesome year. Anti-clerical outbreaks
and labor disturbances in Carcelonia
and other quarters rendered martial
law necessary. The Moors, too, took
up arms but were defeated Septem-
per LOlI, near SeludIl, WHERE the opdH-
iards successfully used a balloon to
direct their troops.
In October Prof. Francisco Ferrer,
educator and revOlutiOniSt, was court
martialed and shot for participation
in the Barcelona riots. His last words
were: Aim straight; Long live he
modern schools" By some Ferrer is
acclaimed a patriot and hero, by 9TH
ers a desperate anarchist and intidel.
His execution much feeling
and on October p the conservative
cabinet resigned and the king form
I'd a new ministry.
Labor sturbance and numerous
strikes marked the year in France
The government succeeded in nding
the strike Of employees in the tele~
graph, postal and telephone depart
ments, but the war between labor and
elsewhere. BRAND, a Socialist, has
succeeded Clemenceau as premier.
h growing isolation Of
has been noticeable. BueloW has sue
ceeded Bethman-Hollwg as chancel-
lor The Emperor ever alert to the
extension of German trade, IS de-
scribed by ak Harden as the embodl-
ment Of German character today, a
royal trade solicitor.
The death of King Leopold, of Bel
! GUM, removed perhaps the most de-
tested sovereign in Europe. He was a
man of strange contradictions. His
| policy in the Congo has excited the
Indignation of the Christian world.
Two American missionaries who ex-
posed the intolerable condition of the
natives, were sued for $40, 600 by one
of LeopOld'S rubber companies, but
after being hauled a thousand miles
to stand trial were acquitted. Leopold
is succeeded by his nephew, a young
man of different character.
England had a stormy season in
irving to rp3d inst her method of +o-o
ton so as to produce the required rev.
enue- The Liberals passed the budget
which has many socialistic features
but the Lords withheld approval and
the issue Will soon be submitted to
the people. The agitation for woman
suffrage has reached such proportions
that women Of prominence have gone
TO TAIL for their cause.