The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-12
BY JERJEs eARsooM.

Member of the Young Turk Party.
III when / first came To America
my person had told me that there
|Would soon come day when Moham-
|nedans. ChIisti8ns and Jews would
4 eit down together in Turkish parlia-
fnent and debate questions of govern
fnent. lust as they do in the United
Sfates and other enlightened coun-
(. tries. scarcely would have believed
Them
IL when was ordered out of by
FATHERS house because l refused 10
>renounce Christianity, had been told
.kfat my mother and my five brothers
,and my sisters would become Chris
;fitns, In fact all the family but my
lfakher, who remains obdurately Mo-
|hSmmedan, would have cried I'm
.Dtssible"
lIf any person had told me then
'lfliat IN the year 1910 | should re-
cdive q letter from my mother saying
ffiat Turkish women were appearing
of the streets OF Constantinople with
lodi the veil, | should have replied,
ZION do not know Turkey" And ]
,NbuId have said the same thing If the
HDafs0n had said my mother would
tutite me that my mother and her
<I8nghters and daughters-in-law all
Mbuld sit down to dine at long table
with my father at its head. For when
\ left Turkey had never set eyes on
fiie wives OF any OF my five brothers,
"a OF whom lived under my fathers
f4of but i'm a secluded portion OF the
y &nse reserved exclusively for the
Hbmen
with Mehmed V on the throne of
JHfkey, who is OF course mere fig-
MIehead OF sultan, the Young Turk
r&rty is today the real ruler OF Tur-
<. k4y. Members OF the government are
eEcted by popular vote. They want
men OF broad minds and liberal ideas.
1hey want non-Moslems in the army
btcause they do not want the danger
o1s influence OF the priesthood there.
THE new government is endeayoring
"a tighten the burders of taxation. The
t&nntry is poor, as the old government
r1bbed the people OF everything. Sim
N3taneously the new government Is
f3rnishing better meaps of livelihood
The country is wide open today for
ckDitaligts with ain enlightened gov
3 Ihy.cpt. there is sure TO be prosperity
&{hcc the government introduces
Modern ways OF doing things and II
k&'Iowing the example OF America II
Vanishing the 40,000.000 people o.
thrkey with opportunity to obtain ed
tati0n.
To-day 9s per cent of those living In
IXe empire can neither read nor write
Mhat Turkey needs most is education
"a Is only by education that the grasp
"a the Mohammedan priesthood, which
VI the greatest fear of the new gov
EMINENT, can be shaken Off The
1|4iests try to influence the ignorant
Woslems to rise against the new gov
Htnment, but with the army back Of
t&e new regime, there Is really little
lance 10 do injury.
There are four things which the
Dung party stands out for today. The
INST OF these is freedom OF the press.
The second is education OF the chill
Ufen.
THE third Is abolition OF the harems
md the placing of the women OF Tur-
10y In position where they can help
~ the social and political reformation
|ithin the past year, influenced by
TIE great awakening Of the entire
c6untry, the women of the cities have
Ntgun TO form clubs for helping their
loss fortunate sisters out OF their
bbndage
THE fourth is religious liberty. the
1Ight TO think as conscience dictates
have mentioned this last, but as
Hose who have heard me through will
noe, It Is, in benighted country like
Ihfrkey, a boon whose benefcent re
salts no man can measure.