The Progress of the World. 



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We think that it is quite wrong to 

 assume that Fcrid Pasha is an ardent friend 

 of Germany. He is an ardent friend of 

 Turkey, and will work loyally with any 

 country whose objects do not confiict with 

 his ideas as to what is due to Turkey. Of 

 course, it is immensely unfortunate that the 

 Ikitish representative in Constantinople is 

 quite the worst Ambassador that could pos- 

 sibly, have been found. \Mien the entire 

 mastery of tiie situation at Constantinople 

 was not only open to us, but urged upon us. 

 Sir Gerald Lowther made no effort to secure 

 for his country the advantages which should 

 now be hers. 



It need now be no secret 



Ferid Pasha's that the late Turkish 



First Duty. Government had taken 



official steps to secure the 

 assistance of the British Government in the 

 selection of a number of British adminis- 

 trative officials who would be given a 

 practically free hand in the reorganisation 

 of many of the departments of State. We 

 trust and we believe that Ferid Pasha and 

 his colleagues are far too intelligent not to 

 continue this most excellent idea of their 

 predecessors. It is gratifying to find tliar 

 however mucii we, as a nation, may have 

 lost in other directions, the world still re- 

 gards us as the most able administrators, 

 advisers and tlirectors ; and this in face of 

 the urgent representations of other countries, 

 backed as they are, l*o a far greater extent 

 than lias ever been the case with us, by all 

 tiic diplomatic and governmental forces 

 available. 



\tter the turmoil and rush 

 Perhaps ,• , ,• 



^^ or the campaigns prece(hng 



American President the nomination convention, 

 in the ^j^^l jIj^. ]j||.j^] rhetoric of 



United States. 



Mr. 1 heodorc Roosevelt 



and Mr. Bryan, a calm has fallen upon the 



country, and Americans are beginning to size 

 up the situation. It is no exaggeration to say 

 tliat it is quite unprecedented in the history 

 of the United States, and there is a possi- 

 bility that it may lead to a very curious 

 situation. The division of the two Repub- 

 lican parties and the creation of a new partv 

 by Mr. Roosevelt may result in there being 

 no absolute majority in the Autumn when 

 the Presidential elections are held. Should 

 this happen there will be no President 

 elected, and were it not that in the United 

 States the terms of the new President and 

 that of his predecessor overlap for several 

 months we should have the interesting 

 spectacle of one of the greatest nations 

 without any head. While this might be 

 workable in another republic, it is unthink- 

 able in the United States, where the chief 

 executive has far more direct power and 

 many more direct duties than has any 

 constitutional monarch. Should this dead- 

 lock occur, the matter of electing the 

 President has to be referred to the House 

 of Representatives ; but there is an interest- 

 ing doubt as to whether it would be the 

 old or new House that should elect the 

 new President. For the sake of the Ameri- 

 can business men it is to be hoped that 

 this eventuality will not occur, although 

 it must be confessed that the situation 

 cannot but be interesting for all students 

 ot national politics. 



It is doubtful whether an}' 

 Panama change of President can 



Tolls. have real influence u])on 



the steadilv improving re- 

 lations between the United States and 

 this country. The coming of Home Rule 

 will aid greatly in this direction, since at the 

 present moment it is generally among the 

 Irish political sections that op|)Osition to 

 anything British is to be found. It was the 



