The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-09-21
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New Turkey Offers Rare opportun''
ties for American capital-A Use
Of the Flag That Does Not Rebound
to Honor Of Country.
nv WILLIAM r, ELLIS.

great gardens and granaries OF the
world is this famous Cilician plain
round which bloom memories OF Ihe |
glory that was Greece and the gran
deur that was Rome"
Today it is of interest as 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 which is found
here. II the new order in the empire
ia 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 1t into the
air. Two women may still be seen
grinding at 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 stu
gather their focks, and women with
lars draw the water. It is all print
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. I have
been told directly by more than one
cabinet minister as we'll as by minor
officials, that since American capital
lists are not the forerunners 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
70 hand in hand. The concession fol-
this great highway has been secured
by the Germans 1t is a master stroke
of policy. There is no exaggerat1on II
declaring that this Bagdad railway Ii
the most important bit of railway con
struction now under way anywhere or
earth. 1t may be looked upon from
several angles. Some persons see this
line stretched from Berlin to Bagdat
as a mailed fist shown in the face O
. India. Others regard 1t as an out
stretched hand for the golden com
,, merce of the far east. Others see II
it only peril to the British and Rus
sian influence in Persia.
The ordinary business man, wht
does not NEEDLE with politics, is con
tent to note that it opens up the fer
tile plains of the Tigris and Euphrate'
to the German trader. CONSTRUCTION
has already proceeded to Burgulu ant
before this winter is over it will be II
operation we'll into the foothills OF thu
Taurus mountains. There, engineering
difficulties will hold 1t for few year
but the Cilician end of the line is ais
being built. The maps of tomorrow
will not ignore this new route owe
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world.
But the railway is practically poli1
ical, Germany says that If New TUT
key increases her taxes, as she mean
to do, the money must be applied t
the building of the Bagdad railway
Great Britain and Russia declare tina
4 the taxes may not be raised IT the
= are to be used for any such purpose
8 Between the contending forces of d
y plomacy, poor Turkey is held at
9 standstill. Small wonder that sh
. has looked favorably thus far upo
!. the Chester railway project which
T. designed to open the eastern end
Asia Minor. This, however, is not ye
- through, for the sinuosities of diple
= macy at Constantinople have Irvine
themselves about many another prom
,. Using enterprise to throttle it to deat(
). Business and Reform.
i. Apart from the question of mine
y and railways, and these other large
affairs which are roughly grouped a
concessions, there remain smaller Ell
a. terprises which offa4 no difficulties
II the American business man. Perhap
can best explain these by quoting
~ long conversation which had with tn
Vail of the Vilayet of Adana-a pr
gressive young Turk who was put
:, by the Reform government after tn
q. massacres to rule this troubled teri
d. tory by an iron hand.
ou Djemal Bey is an enlightened TUT
of the new order, liberal in his opil
ions, intensely patriotic yet sensibl
" in the pursuit of reforms. He has r
O, quired compulsory education for a