he imprisoned Bayezid in a cage ; he treated Bayezid as well 

 as Enver has treated General Townshend, and he exter- 

 minated the population of Asia Minor almost as thoroughly 

 as the Turks have exterminated the Armenians. 



The good old Turk with a rosary, a melting eye, a long 

 white beard, a compliment on his lips, a large turban on his 

 reverend head, a small child nestling in the folds of his 

 ample gown, is a picture which has bewitched many a heart. 

 A philanthropic and gentle philosopher, you will find him 

 contemplating vacuum in many a mosque and shrine in 

 Asia Minor,and no one can deny that he is a good old Turk, 

 charitable, benevolent, and kind ; I have no doubt he would 

 save Armenians from pursuit if they came his way, though 

 he would not go a yard to find them ; he would' surrepti- 

 tiously convey food to English prisoners just as he would 

 share his last crust with a mangy street dog, for the pious 

 must be kind even to unclean things; but his benevolence 

 is individual and isolated ; he is a sort of hermit-crab dwell- 

 ing in a rosy shell of personal philanthropy, he counts for 

 nothing, nor would five million of him count for anything. 

 Take again the Young Turk with a German uniform, a 

 German parade voice, and German technical education. 

 He has been reared in a Stambul harem ; when he was four 

 years old his mama helped him first at table, and taught 

 his elder sister to kiss his hand ; his papa taught him that 

 by blood alone could Christian subjects be governed, and 

 that by diplomacy alone could the Christian powers be 

 set by the ears ; his German professors taught him all there 

 was to be known about mass-suggestion, 1 Weltpolitik, and 

 high explosives. 



Breeding, environment, and education combine to pro- 

 duce a very complete foil to the passive philanthropist of 

 the shrine. This young man is the embodiment of ruth- 

 less action and inflexible tyranny. His mother taught him 

 that whatever he wanted was his ; his father taught him to 

 hold whatever he got ; and his German schoolmaster taught 

 him what he believes to be the universal method of getting 

 what he wants. Moreover, the German professor reinocu- 

 lated him with some of the destructive virus of his plunder- 

 ing Turanian ancestors. Yeni-Turan is the latest creed. 



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