New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-14
PRUSSIA'S PUPIL THE TURK
An Eminent Authority Oriental Affairs Conroves the Ahe" ~
He Is Clean Fighter


Turanian ancestors Yeni-Turan is the latest
creed
IL doctrine Is simple. The Turks In an
liant times devastated and conquered Win
complete success Attila, GhengIz, hu!"S d.
Narcu and Timur were never beaten; out
FOR the last TWO hundred years the lut"s :
have constantly been beaten. Why Is th'S
Tho primitive Turks we're pure baroariahs'
hut unfortunately the Turks of to-day nave
ir,bibed some of the vices of the peoples
,boy have conquered philosophy from Per-
ala. poetry. literature and religion from the
Arsbs. some tincture of the arts from the
Creeks These are blots and blemishes on
,be rude puritv and simplicity OF the ura-
Man race. who only know destruction as 'He''
motto. True. the degenerate lurHs o. ."'
'iv,eartb seventeenth and eighteenth eentu-
,ios did not produce much, but at least III
moments of forgetfulness. they allowed otn-
ors TO produce Christians punt '"e'
rnosoues and palaces. Persians made IT pos
siblo for Turks TO express. if not understand
abstract ideas; Arabs Influenced Turks WIN
Tho thought of a Creator who was some'hihs
more than a tribal mumbo-Jumoo'
The Creed of Yeni-Turan
Tho German professor has taught our
yopnc Turk to purge this perilous stun from
his heart ard brain and tongue. Inc eteeu
of Yoni-Turan 5 back to the forest. back 10
Tho tent back to the palGolithlc state %
mind. IL is the grand reaction, and so S'ro"s
l. tho faint of tho Turanian stock wnicn runs
tbrougb that maze of crossbred Gets ~,
meriaps. Hellencs. lranan', SemlteS ON
Caucasians which VIC call the Turkisn peoPie
that Yeni-Turan is a living thing when mus
81 RESPONSIVE echo IN the Turkey OF to-day
Tho old Turk with a turban Is the mega,
two. the Young Turk with a MauSer piStol
is the positive; and. contrary TO an RUIZ
or nhilosonhv. IT is the evil principle Whle"
is positivc. and the good. for what II j.
worth. which IS negative. -
The violent Young Turk reactlonary IS lhe
controlling power. the old Turk quieust mas
about as much influence on actual events a.
o. docaving monument of forgotten age ne
! young Turk who snubbed his mother, puIeu
his sisters hair. kicked the Armenian porter
cringed before his father, gobbled up inc
dopmas of the German professor. mastered
tho formulp of the Prussian military III
structor and resuscitated the dormant Jus
of his savage ancestors in his heart IS V"'
man who counts. The lumpish peasant con
scripts Of Anatoiia are his tools. MS area"
i 70 reassert once more the pristine author'
] III
or Turanize everything within reach.
Tho Arabs are to be robbed Of tongue ana
leading. The Armenians are to be eXtermlna,-
cd. Christianity is to be abolished m Iur'
kew. Islam is TO be overthrow and Shaman-
isr, and Fetichism revived; the British are TO
no kicked out of India and Egypt, and Russia
ia TO be paralyzed by a Turanlan revival }"
Central Asia. Between the dream and Its
raalizatiOn nothing is 20 stand.
How Solidarity Is Maintained
Turkish national solidarity is maintained
within bv a terrorist secret society. the knife
the bullet. the bride and the massacre; on
,he hattie front the Turkish peasantry Is sac
ri6ced without stint or hesitation; in Afghan
istan. Persia. India and Egypt the Young
Turk has endeayored to cast his spels Dy
fomenting sedition, espionage, assasslh"''o"
and fanatcism in Europe, where ne mas sur
vived By intrigue and corruption through W.
long centuries. he does not yet despair Oh INC
efficacy If these weapons. In England the
Young Turk still hopes to maintain CERTAIN, /,
continental hold on public opinion, when
interested politicians and romantic tra'eAei :
have secured for him in the past. His spuri-
Gus reputation as clean nghter ne Is ei@o
enough 70 keep as a war asset. In defea1 ne
knows the noble pose just as in massacre
he knows how to shuttle responsibility; Nheh
/, Is worth while he can assume the airs OF a
good fellow. He will give truce TO oury the
daad inst as readily as he will set hre to an
Armenian prison, and spare bandage lor a
wounded English prisoner left behind IN a
retreat lust as deliberately as he VIII suck
knife into pregnant Christian woman. ANY
LITTLE act of kindness which costs notnlns
will mitigate his difficulties and further MS
war aims he will perform with the same SUP
conscious purpose as he will commit the VII
est atrocities. -
Ills success we must acknowledges he has
massacrcd. pllaged, outraged; for two years
and a half he has broken every convention
maltreated our prisoners killed our wounded
/ held our women hostages, but he remains the
! "clean fighting Turk