HOLDING THE WINDS, AND DRYING UP THE RIVER EUPHRATES
By S. B. W.
HOLDING THE WINDS, AND DRYING UP THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
FROM recent news it appears that there is more trouble in Turkey, and that the “Eastern Question” is being agitated again to some extent. The following from the N. Y. Witness, of Aug. 26, shows how the thing is to be disposed of for the present, and what is expected to be the ultimate result of these matters; though the writer misapprehends the means by which it is to be accomplished, and what its concomitants will be:— “The ‘Great Powers’ are perfectly agreed that the Eastern question must not be raised at the present time, which is another way of stating that they are not in accord about the method of settling it on any other basis than the established one. So the existence of Turkism in Europe will be prolonged till some understanding can be reached about the division of the sick man's inheritance. Meanwhile it is hoped that the administrative reform which has, so far, been a mere pretence, will be made a reality. This is a clear case of expecting grapes of thistles. The administrative machinery of Turkey is so hopelessly debased and corrupt that the only way to reform it is to reform it out of existence.”