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do, but lack experience in such work, and 

 especially are out of touch with things 

 Mohammedan. France again has not too 

 fine a record in her story of relations 

 with Mohammedans. It is evident that 

 the only nation to whom Turkey can turn 

 with confidence is Great Britain, who is 

 disinterested, who can supply men fitted 

 for all branches of administrative and 

 executive work, and whose Empire is 

 the greatest Mohammedan Empire the 

 world has ever seen. Let, therefore, 

 the Turkish Government take the necessary 

 plunge and announce to the world, by word 

 or by action, that until such a time as the 

 new generation of Turkish officials and 

 administrators shall have developed, aid is to 

 be sought in all branches of national organi- 

 sation from the services of the Englishmen. 

 The world will cease to cavil at the re- 

 forms long promised, but necessarily slow 

 of execution, since the men to execute them 

 aie lacking. We do not agree with the 

 diplomat who said, "The Young Turks are so 

 busy executing reformers that they have no 

 time to execute reforms " ; but it is necessary 

 to move ahead. English aid will be freely 

 granted without conditions, and the asking 

 ior it will in itself be a proof of the indepen- 

 dent strength of the New Turkey. The 

 interested small States, to whom England 

 stands for progress and freedom, will gladly 

 then lend their aid to Turkey in Macedonia 

 and in Albania. 



Mr. Roosevelt is proving 

 Roosevelt's himself once more to be 

 Victorious Revolt, the most Sensational fac- 

 tor in American politics. 

 When he started (^ut for the Republican 

 nomination lie seemed to possess not the 

 ghost of a chance. I'Aerytliing was a])- 



By fcniiissiofl o/ the proprietors of Pn>i< fi"] 



For Auld Lang Syne. 



Unci.e Sam (philosopliically wutcliing the Taft-Roosevelt 

 scrap) : " Wal ! I guess old friends are the best." 



parently against him : liis recent eclipse in 

 public estimation, his solemn pledge not 

 to stand again, and the determined opposi- 

 tion of ])arty managers. But in two months 

 he has changed the whole situation. He 

 has completely upset the official apple-cart 

 of his party. In the ])rimary elections of 

 delegates to the Party Convention his star 

 has been steadily in the ascendant, lie 

 won in State after State. He swept Cali- 

 fornia. Most dramatic of all his successes, 

 he coinpletely vanquished the President in 

 Mr. Taft's own home State of Ohio. ']"he 

 two rivals have at present an almost equal 

 number of delegates returned to support 

 their nomination. Whatever be the deci- 

 sion of the Convention, Mr. Roosevelt is 

 said to lie resolved to go to the country as 

 candidate. 



