Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-13
Saturday Morning, March 13, 1915
r4E ossEoules OF AN EMPIRE

The sick Man of Europe" seems to be dying at last The booming of the big guns as the BrishFrench heet hammers fits way through the Dardanelles sounds the kuel of an empire The superdreadnougs Queen Eliza beth and Agamemnon appear irresistible At their pres en rate of progress the land and sea forces will soon he masters of the passage and the GallpoH Peninsula They have then 13O miles to sail to Constantnope The Turkish fleet reinforced by the German cruisers Goe ben and Bresau can offer but feeble resistance The Russian fleet itself far superior to the Turkish is has tening to attack the Bosphorus forts, to be in at the death and meet the British in their triumphant entry n- to Constantnople
 That will mean immediately, the end of Turkey in Europe The last Balkan war left the Turks only this historic capital with few miles of land running bac, to the Tchalia line of forts Since 1912 they have pre- -ened the anomaly of ruling an Asatic empire from a European city Now even that last hold is slipping There is terror in Consantnope and frenzed prepare tions for flight It is rumored that foreseeing tlei doom the Turks have chosen the ancient Iconum nov Konieh an insignificant city the edge of the Kara mauian desert to be their capital Seven centur ies ago it was the capital of the Seljok Turks knsme0 of the Osmaulis who from few hundred warike nc mads became world power. retirement to Konie' will mark the total collapse their proud empire Ther they uiu be safe; they could find more remote an sheltered spot in all their domains. There they mar rule the little realm left them when the allies have d vided their empire among themselves. and there the may lapse into Asatic sleep while the big world move on.
 It is a it and proper ending. The Turk has bee. weighed in the balance of civilization and found want ing In five centuries of European opportunity he Ina failed to make good. is nearly 600 years since th Ottoman first crossed the Bosporus it is 462 years sine he has been established in the proud capital of the o Greco-Romau empire. Constantinope. which Napoeo called the capital of the world" And in all that tim he has done nothing to justify his possession of so ai a spot
 The Turk has been good soldier-none better, his early vigorous when he swept north and wes couaueriug the Balkan peninsula. breaking the powe of Greece overrmnng Hungary and carrying his vi torous crescent banner to the gates of Vienna, u sobes,y the Polish hero stopped the tide of invaso and saved Christendom. He won Egypt and an noru eru Africa, west to the Atlantic: he took Arabia an reached eastward through the rich valley of the Tgr and Euphrstes to the Persian Gulf he held the Hol Land against the Christian World
 But the crude soldier could not govern. There ha never been genuine government Turkey save as no and then a strong man arose who in his own perso could hold the reins and dominate the empire TarkC has always suffered from lack of unity It has rule vast population in which the Turks themselves ha' always been a minority. And with increasing goyer mental decrepitude after another of the conQuer' provinces never assmilated have slipped away.
 It is strange that such power could have been mai taiued for so long time. The Turks have never be' civilized according to the standards Of either Europe Asia They have virtually literature, no art no arol lecture What they appear to have is mostly borrow from Che Arabs They are not even skilled in nd1 try or commerce They are unapt for the organzau' required in modern trade or manufacture. The in ,idusl Turk decent enough fellow ordinarily renal am individual apparently incapable of social progre and evolution. unaffected by the arts and sciences halfbarbarian in a false setting It is time that he tired in favor of race capable of utilizing the grou he has cumbered and playing a role worthy Of the h toric stage.
 Russia, apparently. is to occupy ConstantlHop realizing the dream of Russian people since the t of Peter he Great If the city really becomes Russia
 with the acquescence of Great Britain and France. may become the capital of the Russian empire "Al undergrad" as they call H may become "czargrad.'
 is prize for which the would doubtless sacni