Show arm AM ALON 5 marvelous wave of new national life that Is sweeping around the earth turkeys Turk eyB new regime con statutes utes huge human problem by WILLIAM T ELLIS constantinople the man who lifts his bis head bead above his own neighborhoods affairs and the fashion nowa now a days finds himself confronted with a whole cycle of world problems it if he knows how to put two and two together he be pre prec cleves ieves that the present ferment Is what mr roosevelt called in his berlin speech a world movement whilo while as individual and distinct as human nature and racial characteristics acte it yet presents the same general features everywhere front and foremost Is the new expression of the he national spirit this may fairly be called the biggest news in the world and I 1 have undertaken to follow it through europe drope and asia while the journalistic historian naturally cannot see it as clearly as the student of a generation hence he none the less cannot fall to perceive the outstanding aspects of this ancient human drama which Is being enacted before his eyes the theme Is one calling for the ibe arts of the poet and the dramatist rather than tor for those of a mere chronicler of the obvious or the easily ascertainable americas deep interial agitation and mood of self exam are a case in point an instance from ireland the first time outside of north america on this tour of investigation where I 1 carne came into contact with the awakening of the old and dormant national consciousness was in west ireland I 1 was in the poor fishing village outside of at galway called the Clad dagli where survive the purest blooded irish stock everybody spoke IL a to tongue ngue strange to my ears but a genial coster shifted his dudeen and tood natu explained to me every nation ought to have their own language you know and use that A similar rollar gl revival ot of the gaelic may bo be found ln in parts of scotland indeed old scotia as a whole shows a restiveness under the anglicization anglicisation that Is in progress and asserts deserts her own national character even to the extent of calling the scottish members ot of parliament sharply to account v britaina Brit ains big scare great britain as a whole and especially england has within the past half decade been scared into a new national self consciousness the situation looks strangely like a case of blue funk to an outsider john dull bull has displayed something more closely akin to hysteria than ho he has been accused at 0 tor for a long time tho the nation has hurriedly built Dreadnought a organized territorial forces reorganized her army created the boy scouts 1 and Is now clamoring tor for an airship beet lest germany should suddenly gobble her hei up over aver night i with germany the new mood Is coextensive with the reign ot of emperor william and the power of bismarck it la Is frankly avowed imperialism even the tourist may see that germany Is the most efficient nation in europe its organization running iown into all departments or of life file and becoming objectionable paternalism in many respects Is paralleled only by the case of her pupil japan germany has gone in for world dominion domin I 1 on comm ercla it if not political whether the emperor dreams more who can say the observer cannot help wondering wandering what may be ba the inspiration and significance of the napoleon cult which has such vogue in germany I 1 have watched the emperor as he sat mat for nearly four mortal hours on horseback reviewing of his bis troops and the occasion was ominous whatever the militarism in germany portends certainly she la Is winning the commercial world especially from great britain however heartily germany may be disliked abroad and she seems to have few friends she Is successful in spite of ill will crossing to france and spain one finds evident symptoms of a new awakening there the laissez dalre attitude has been abandoned and frances experience Is even now being repeated in the realm of king al ahonso and portugal la Is a republics the lesser nations alert the little nations are doing wonders bulgaria now nominally as well as actually independent has forged powerfully to the tha front in the tb balkans Dal kans her army la Is the tha dread of turkey the concern of other powers and the hope of greece finland and poland robbed of their independence and under a heavy yoke are yet showing the power of at this revivifying revivify ing national spirit by their dogged abher trice to their national ideals and language Ilung hungary ary clings to its own tongue and in the carriage drivers even at the risk of losing a tare fare will often refuse to appah any language but hungarian the case an aa the history ot of the past 20 years has baa shown Is well summed up by sydney brooks in ili a recent mag ozine article russia a power phoso whoso mere immensity had bad for a century oppressed the imagination of europe has bus reeled I 1 through an unbroken series of de feats into the blackness of chaos and anarchy japan 20 years ago an unconsidered dered factor la in the plans plana of statesmen has thrilled the entire world with alltha qualities a nation victorious vIctor lous and keep ke it 11 great has marched arched rn irresistibly to the fhe mastery ot of the tar fir east arid and Is now organizing an astounding campaign of commercial triumphs china numerically the greatest power in the world but immemorially inert disjointed and nerveless has felt the quick quickening efting of new life and lifts its scarred and battered head bead with a frown that Is halt half a protest and halt half a threat A wave of nati national ortal self conscious ness and self assertion has passed from east to west agitating slam upsetting sovereigns and governments in persia and turkey and gravely perplexing the rulers of india and egypt the united states has bounded out of her long innocuous isolation has felled at a blow an ancient member of the european family of nations has been swept by the spirit of expansion pan sion has planted herself in the west indies and has haa strewn the pacific with stepping stones from san francisco to manila tho the hardy and democratic people of norway after beating for long against the bars have wrenched them apart and stepped on to the european stage with a quiet but intense assertion of nationality another people the hun garlans ga rians not less virile and incomparably more gifted and attractive with a thousand years of self contained history behind them have in the last two decades celades taken long and strides toward the sama goal of conscious nationalism france barely escaping a military dictatorship has been stretched on the tha rack of the dreyfus case amid universal anguish and abhorrence great britain expanding ponderously from the cape to cairo has fought and conquered the doers boers and added their territories to her empire italy has had bad her adoba and greece her domokos what Is compendiously called the labor labar question has posed its in I 1 t N N r V I 1 Ys 4 TW Q w vas RP 1 1 V AW V N V A i typical street scene in the new constantinople soluble conundrums with a growing and menacing insistence to the peo plea and rulers of all countries and incredible inventions and discoveries have revolutionized our conceptions of matter and deeply affected our dally scheme of life egypt in the limelight lime light thanks to the assistance of mr air roosevelt the case of egypt Is fairly familiar to the public that a tremendous crisis has come in the land of the after the sleep of centuries la Is now doubted by no one the people as a whole are clamant for all the rights and prerogatives of a self governing rin nation tion their emergence Is 13 one of the spectacular phenomena of recent history the end of the story has not yet been written I 1 shall shortly be in egypt to study the case on the spot it is in asta asia that this new wave of nationalism assumes the most amazing proportions turkey as I 1 shall show in my next article has executed a volto face there are changes under way there which will have unpredictable consequences to europe for anybody to whom life has become blase a trip to turkey and a study of its transformation Is recommended as a sufficient tonic the civilizations of the past three thousand years have flowered and died on the soil of turkey the holy boy places of the two most potent religions of mankind aro within that empire most host of the ruins that link the present with the past way may bo be dug up only by permission from constantinople A strange assortment of nations nat tont and colors and an d coeds converge their problems upon the capital to which constantine stant st lne the first chrisden Chri sUen emperor gave his bis name I 1 IF centuries ago india and china are the two other greet great nations whose awaking bonev concilia us all who sea things la in the large and who perceive the interrelation inter relation of human history the case of india is politically of concern chiefly to india herself and rest great britain the governing power From the buman standpoint it is one of the great drs dramas in ili real life that are more interesting than any books after I 1 have gone through turkey and persia I 1 am due in india chinas cainas portentous Portent taif oum turnings turning the giant among nations whose awaking has long lone been a source ot of speculation to statesmen philosophers and novelists Is s at last unmistakably awake and girding herself for a now place in the history of the world II if her incredible bulk ot of more than four foul hundred million human beings weft to be un loosed with hostile intent upon bp america europe or asia the result would be an unparalleled avalanche a real armageddon iler her soil holds minerals enough to upset all the calculations ot of the financial districts of the world iler her industrial potentiality could turn the labor market upside down As a military force sho has possibility which one shrinks from contemplating anything la ia possible in tho the china ot of tomorrow because by government edict and by the impulse of the people at large she has definitely turned her face toward the west and turned her back upon tho the past that made the old china forever Mo rever she eho seems to ho be seeking the tutelage of america and whether the youngest of the great nations shall become the teacher cherof of the oldest Is of more interest and imbor tanco tance than the question of the tariff A great human drama roughly sketched hed the foregoing la Is the field to which I 1 have addressed myself in the present series of investigations which I 1 am now making in asia although I 1 have spent several months in europe working on the subject I 1 shall confine myself to the oldest nations for alongside of the peoples of asia the antiquity of europe Is modern I 1 shall deal less with the political aspects aspectia of the case than with the human conditions which go to make this wonderful waking a fact in the life of the everyday man and woman it Is altering the bazaars of the orient into shops for uw sale eala ot of western products and Is puts put ting tang american sewing machines into the homes ot of the people and american agricultural implements into their fields in all the world there Is in noth ing quite so interesting as the life and labors and hopes of men and women copyright 1911 by joseph jooeph B D bowleg |