Show REFORM SEEMS BADLY Y NEEDED D Turkish Peasants More to be Pitied Than Armenians Says Sabaheddine Claims That Revolutions Which Have 1I I 1 Torn the Country for Many Year Have Been Organized By Agents of Powers for Their Own Ends Paris Prince Salmheddlne a nephew of the sultan of Turkey and chief of the young Turk party has addressed ad-dressed a letter on the subject of the regeneration of Turkey to Senator Pierro Berthelot who recently appealed ap-pealed to President Roosevelt In behalf be-half of the Armenians The letter complains that the revolutions which have torn the country for many years pave been organized by the official agents of certain powers for their own ends and points out that while much sympathy has been gven the Armenians Arme-nians the Turkish peasants are mora to be pitied The agriculturists the prlnco says nro all forced to servo Inline in-line army and tho women are left to raise enough to pay the exorbitant taxes Intelligent and educated Turks who ore trying to gain reforms are ar bltrarlly arrested tortured banished and even murdered by Irregular trl bunals This persecution however has only strengthened the movement The reforms Imposed by Europe on Turkey tho prince says have accentuated accen-tuated the troubles The Interests ol tho Armenians and Turks are Idenll cal Tho Kurds being Mussulmans but not Turks ravage both Armenians and Turks Indiscriminately It would bo a great gain ho says If the Kurds who are the finest race could bo attached at-tached to tho soil as their ferocity is the direct result of their present social so-cial condition Tho great and Imperative reform PrInce Sabahcddlno continues Is administrative ad-ministrative decentralization In the empire which would permit tho industrious In-dustrious inhabitants to exercise effective ef-fective control over the management of tho local affairs and take the necessary nec-essary measures to maintain permanent perma-nent order and peace If Europe and America decided to Intervene the letter says In conclusion conclu-sion they must In justice Intervene in favor of all tho victims of the present pres-ent regime besides which Turkey being be-Ing the great link between eastern and western civilizations by reformIng reform-Ing and bringing her into line with modern Ideas It would efface the antagonism an-tagonism of tho two civilizations |