THE SUICIDE OF THE TURK.
[To THE EDITOR OP TRIO "SPECTATOR."]
SIE,-4 observe that Lord Cromer in his article on "The Suicide of the Turk" in your last issue accepts as a fact that the Young Turk Government was started with genuinely good intentions. To outward seeming this was so, but amongst some at least of the leaders and many of their following this was far from being the ease. The root-idea in the minds of the partly educated Turks of Anatolia, who undoubtedly reflected the views of their leaders, was that the movement would give them freedom for fanaticism, and also the means to uproot foreign influence, and to control foreign industries to their own profit. The better government of their people was never part of the scheme, and I can vouch for the authenticity of a document written by one of the earlier Finance Ministers to his own colleagues whilst on a mission to the European Chancelleries for the purpose of raising a loan, in which he expressly stated that the views to which he was giving vent in Paris were intended for European consumption, tend that they must not think that he had lost sight of their ultimate purpose, which was to free themselves from all foreign control, and thereby to transfer the profits made by foreign capital in Turkey from the rapacious pockets of the foreigner to their own.—I am, Sir, &o., ANATOLIAN.
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