Photo by D. VV. and A. S. Iddings. Copyright by Keystone View Co. 



mohamme;dans washing their hands and feet in eront oe a mosque BEI^ORE 



entering 



Turkish times were populous and flour- 

 ishing, now Httle better than heaps of 

 ruins ; to trace the sites of others which 

 have entirely disappeared ; to see today 

 the same hindrances to trade and manu- 

 facture at work which have succeeded in 

 past times in the impoverishment of a 

 naturally rich country. It is worse to 

 find that there has existed neither moral 

 force nor patriotism sufficient at any 

 time to strike at the all but universal 

 corruption which is the principal cause 

 and symptom of this decay. 



The condition of the Turkish Empire 

 today gives no evidence of ability on the 



part of the race to govern even a Moslem 

 people. The Eastern proverb says that 

 "Grass never grows where the Turkish 

 hoof has trod." It is the simple truth 

 that every province held by the Turk 

 has become less productive than it was 

 before, and has fallen in civilization 

 under his rule ; his misgovernment re- 

 tards the progress alike of Moslem and 

 non-Moslem subjects, though it falls 

 with far greater weight upon the Chris- 

 tians. 



But the full measure of the Turkish 

 incapacity to govern is only shown when 

 he has to deal with the Christian subject 



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