Year: 1875

whatever may be the merits Of the between them
THESE NEWSPAPER FOLK


however, sit like an incubus on the breast OF Turkey.
The Turks have newspapers Of their own, least
none worthy of the name and if they had Turk
in a thousand could read understand them But the
rayahs are fairly newspaper mad. Most Of them
speak little French or English and they buzz round
foreign correspondents like flies in autumn They hb
with astonishing impudence, and they deude every
man Of letters who is not his guard against them
into giving currency to the astonishing accounts
OF Mussulman misrue and Christian martyrdom. In
deed the ordinary correspondent hardly help him.
self because ho must either write what be picks up
from rayah sources or trust TO his own observation
while In state of semi-blndness and utterly unable TO
judge or to learn anything relating to the Turkish side
of the question, Turkish being language which
only be acquired after half lifetime study and very
few of the Turks, even among the most highly edu
Gated being able to speak any other tongue than their
own Thus Europe and America constantly hearing
nothing but side of the case and the Turkish view
of Turkish questions seldom gets into print at
ALL


THE OTTOMAN RSPIRE r1
Is even still more unfortunate and less understood than
has been explained for nearly all its ambassadors to
foreign courts rayahs or the of rayahs that is
to say osensby renegades whose sympathies really
with the rayahs Mussurus Pacha in London, and Ars-
tarchi Pacha, at Berlin, may both be placed in this
category


To tell the Turks therefore, to govern quietly and to
keep out of scrapes is first to tie mems legs and then to
tell them to All the Christian priesthood of
the Greek faith--a very and very i'll edu
Gated body in Turkey-are in correspondence with the
Russian authorities and whenever they decide upon
making demand the local paeha karmacam,
however unreasonable their demand may be- they set
of to the local Russian consul who knows very well
that his own professional promotion will depend on
supporting it, for were he not to do were he even
TO inquire into the true state Of the before using
his influence, he would have the whole body Of the
Greek Church against him well Prince Gortscha-
ko and the sentimental tea party who surround the
Empress 4f4as Haa


LOCAL GOVERNOR,


on his part is well that if he does not immedi
aey comply with the peremptory request of the rayah
his priest the influence of the Russian Consul at Con-
stantinople will be used against him and he wilb inia
liby dismissed from his post-a painful prospect for
him. considering that directly he is dismissed he will
also be squeezed till he has not pastre left to his
name


Frankly, therefore, it Is nonsense to talk about the
oppression of the Christians in Turkey They are, in


fact the real tyrants of their nominal masters and they
are, in good truth, Of the advantage OF
that position that very of the Greeks have emgraed
to their independent kingdom preierring trade
and to intrigue in the of outraged humanity at
Smyrna and Constantnope


THE STORY TURKISH TROUBLES


in her Christian provinces is always the same Some
hot headed young fellows, mostly lawyers and doctors
who have been educated at Athens at Bucharest in Vi
emma in Paris, tired of walking about in vanished
boots through the mud of their native village and not
finding much else to do, get up riot They
joined by other lazy lads, and then they contrve to
telegraph to the French and English papers that the
Standard the Cross has been raised place with
an unpronounceabe name which has never before been
heard Of They take not to add that it raised
in coffee house over bottle of raki.


Having made their riot, the first thing they all do is
to inform against each other, and give the Turkish
authorities privately to understand that their most
ervent desire in this life is to be bought Off by small
places under government But sometimes before they
obtain any lucrative employment the kilograms
to Europe crashing back to Constannope and if
it is dull of the year. special correspondents
from the great journals arrive the of action
all asking for Ky rios Birbauaki Bano Skampovich
who has announced himself by wre through literary
friend SYRIA Trieste the leader of the insurrec
ton. BY this time Birbauaki, Skampovich, as the
case may be- thinks he has got hold of far good
business to give it up for a small appointment under
government. He will have something big, nothing
The position of Leader of Chrisendom is without
charms for Skampovich or for Birbautaki. At all
events he has got worldwide celebrity, and when he
does dine with the correspondent of the Times he
can dine with the representative Of the Daily Telegraph
who is also very good fellow and capital listener
Henceforth the wires are never still The heroic
Birbautak Skampovich gives sitting to the artists
of the Illustrated London Necs and the Graphic He
marches against his creditors sword in hand off
the avorte old horse of the Turkish cad who has
Az
he has won another victory the Turks" or that
sthe result of the battle is unknown"-a form of ex-
preston used during the recent rebellion to signify
that the creditors of Birbauaki Skampovich have
given him beating


MODERN DIPLOMACY


About the time when matters have arrived at this
crisis and the Insurgents living jollily the
papers while the newspapers also trying TO live
on them, the Russian Ambassador receives an auto
graph letter from his august mistress, the Empress
who tells him, in language which is quite charming
its piey and good faith, to protect the cross of
the Rcdeemer from outrage and desecraton-the fact
being that Brbautaki skampovch have just robbed
church, and charged three Turkish carriers with
the sacrege.


! "Ahn says the Russian Ambassador who often re-
ceves such letters, "My nephew shall carry Her I'm
perial Majesty full report the subject Dumkonsky
the dragoman, make II, and perhaps the boy may
get the knghy Order of St Grdiron from his ortho-
dox sovereign AT least can put him in the way of
serving IL; for such are the rewards of diplomacy"


BY the same post the English Ambassador receives a
marked conddentia from OF the Under Secre-
tares of State, who says, Heo Elliot what's the row
out your way suppose here' be special service
going. If so please take care of young Tudor Plan
tagenet. who is hanging loose on you just now l
should be glad il you would give him something to do
and the ONCE will see to his expenses"


Now, tho German Ambassador, who Is very we'll
served by his sa perccving that Prince Popo H. and
young Plantagenet on the with dispatches,
thinks that he would like to take the waters of Ems
Gastcn himself before the quite over and the
present opportunity might serve him well enough to
get short holiday without forfeiture of salary which
would happen him If ho asked for leave Of absence