The sun., 1912-08-04

has been manpuvring the Government
and Fastening the Ottoman Empire to !,
its ruin
Observation-Disclosures for the Turks them
selves in the form of utside political
complications. began almos; Immediately |
and the Statesmen" of Turkey have
seized upon these embarra ssmcnts as !
excuses to cover the failures due to their |
own liabilities. On October 5. 1908, !
Bulgaria severed the merely noninal
connection which she had had with her
founer oppressors, by proclaiming her
| independence as the kingdom of Bulgaria.
II was small matter. for as a princi-
! pallty. tributary TO the Ottoman Empire.
shc had Tor generation been practically
free. and her superbly equipped army
had for dozen years been spelling for
fhe opportunity to spring upon the i'll
clothed and i'll paid lcgons Of Turkey
Bat Turkeys pride was hurt hy the wall
ton insolence' of her former subjects
Then on tho following day. October o.
Austria announced the anne xation Of
the Ottoman territories of Bosnia and the
Herzegovina.
Ever since the treaty of Berlin, 1878.
provinces. giving them good roads. rail
roads and schools albeit tyrannicaly
Austrianizing the Slav inhabitants and
she felt that sb" was merely clearing up
an already accomplished fact. tho Austria
possession of these territories. But II
was bitter blow TO the Young Turks.
Two days later Crete tried to annex
herself TO Greece: the attempt was a
failure merely because the European
Powers that have had charge of the des-
TIMES of Crete were not at the moment
ready to come to an agreement and give
up the Crqtan question, eternally con-
venicnt as n means of setting any desired
bali rolling.
These difficulties for the Young Turks
we're. however only the ppmontions
Of stormy times. On top of Turkey 's
outside embarrassmentsc came the bunder-
ing of her elections for Parliament. The
Christian races and the Arabs Of the
empire form not only u majority. but they
are everywhere the more intelligent
portion Of the inhabitants Yet the gerry
Wandering and subterfuges Of the Young
Turk bosses brought III Parliament com
posed of an enormous ma jority of Turks.
| many of whom were ignorant, incompetent
men. Their highest intelligence consisted
In voting as they were told by the sharp
. politicians who had given them office.
, The narrow, chauvinistic element of the
, Committee of Union and Progress was
: in the saddle.
On December IL 1905 Parliament was
, opened by Abdul Hamid in person. For
2 the first time ig years he drove through
the streets of his capital. and the nation
seemed to forgive him the crimes Of a
5 third of n century. Parliament opened
auspiciously with love feastine- and re-
ioicings the Christian. Moslem and Jewish
elements fra,ernized with complete cor
diality.
1t did not take long. however for serious
and bitter dissensions to arise The
4 Committee OF Union and Progress, &c
n which Turkey owed the breaking Of her
= Hamidian bonds. had proved Itself mar.
vellous secret organization; the world paid
tribute when the story Of the pre-revolu-
: tionary danger and privations were re.
!. lated. But when. with the inaugural 10:
t of constitutional government. the com.
mittee. and. il must be admitted, ths
= worst elements in the committee. con,
tinued its secret manipulatons. the
5 friends of Turkey and the wisest men in
g Turkey became alarmed.
t In opposition to the committee and its
e party in Parliament we're the Liberals.
4 the party Of decentralization or brown
n cial government for the various -cogrlph
ical and racial districts of the empire
II Kiamil Pasha. the very aged Grand NiHier
It whom England had once saved from
: Hamid's wrath and on whom England nov
: based all her faith in Young Turkey
l. was dismissed by the invisible COMMITTEE
'e in February. 1909. The Liberals blindh