Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-22

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a1NAIIONS
New Turkey Offers Rare Opportuni-
ties for American Capital-A Use
of the Flag That Does Not Rebound
to Honor of Country.
Rv WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

| i ASIA VI TIC
great gardens and granaries of the
world is this famous Cilician plain
round which bloom memories of THE
glory that was Greece and the gran
deur that was Rome"
| Today it is of interest as a feature
In the new life of awakened Turkey
and as a rare field for the employment
of American capital and the sale of
| American goods. The commercial
opportunities of new Turkey are en-
bodied in the situation whicA Is found
here. If the new order in the empire
is to succeed there will inevitably be
great changes in the life of the peo-
pie.
Broadly speaking, the Asia Minor OF
today mirrors the times of the Bible.
There has been little change in two
thousand years. Upon great threshing
floors, open to the sky, handicapped
grain Is threshed by oxen and fails,
and winnowed by tossing it into the
air. Two women may still be seen
grinding at a mill. Instead of hotels
the wayside khans are of the type
which the beautiful Bethlehem story
has made familiar to the world. About
the roadside wells the herdsmen still
gather their f1ocks, and women with
! Jars draw the water. It is all primi-
tive, pastoral, patriarchal. The next
| TWENTY-FIVE years will transform the
old order here, even as the like period
of time has done in Japan.
Why Americans Are Favored.
Hitherto obligations and finances
| have gone hand in hand in Turkeys
! experience with foreigners. Conces-
sions have had diplomatic significance.
| Simon-pure business has been kept out
Of the country to make way for the
promoter who is supported by the off,
cialdom of some European govern
ment New Turkey is tired of this.
| She must have money for internal de-
velopment. Only by the inflow of for
eign capital and modern foreign meth
DDS can the people be helped along
| the road which the government has
planned for them. In their hour OF
need the officials are sincerely turn
ing toward America for help. l have
cabinet minister as well as by minor
officials, that since American capital
lists are not the corerunners of danger
Gus governmental policies, they are
the most welcome in this country.
The Bagdad Railway.
The Bagdad railway is an illustra-
ton of how business and diplomacy
|
this great highway has been secured
by the Germans. 1t is master stroke
of policy. There is no exaggeration in
| declaring that this Bagdad railway is
the most important bit of railway con-
struction now under way anywhere on
earth. 1t may be looked upon from
several angles Some persons see this
| line stretched from Berlin to Bagdad
as mailed fist shown in the face or
India. Others regard it as an out
stretched hand for the golden COM
merce of the far east Others see i'm
It only peril to the British and Rus
sian influence in Persia.
The ordinary business man, who
does not NEEDLE with politics. is con-
tile plains of the Tigris and Euphrates
! to the German trader. Construction
has already proceeded to Burgulu and
| before this winter is over 1t will be in
! operation we'll into the foothills of the
| Taurus mountains. There, engineering
| difficulties will hold it for few years
| but the Cilician end of the line is also
being built. The maps of tomorrow
will not ignore this new route over
| the most ancient highways of the
! world.
But the railway is practically polit-
! ical, Germany says that if New Tur-
key increases her taxes, as she means
! to do the money must be applied to
the building of the Bagdad railway.
| Great Britain and Russia declare that
| the taxes may not be raised if they
are to be used for any such purpose.
! Between the contending forces of di-
plomacy. poor Turkey is held at a
/ standstill. Small wonder that she
! has looked favorably thus far upon
the Chester railway project which 1s
designed to open the eastern end OF
/
| through, for the sinuosities of diplo-
macy at Constantinople have twined
| themselves about many another prom
| Using enterprise to throttle it to death.
Business and Reform.
Apart from the question of mines
and railways, and these other larger
affairs which are roughly grouped as
concessions, there remain smaller en-
| terprises which offer no difficulties to
the American business man. Perhaps
/ can best explain these by quoting
long conversation which 1 had with the
Vail of the Vilayet of Albania pro-
gressive young Turk who was put in
by the Reform government after the
massacres to rule this troubled terri
/ tory by an iron hand.
| Djemal Bey is an enlightened Turk
| of the new order, liberal in his opin-
ions, intensely patriotic yet sensible
/ IN the pursuit of reforms. He has re-
uuired compulsory education for all
| children between z and II years of
age. He has forbidden loafing in the