Show HOLDING CIVILIZATION BACK Austria wants to construct a railroad across Turkish territory to connect Turkey with in Herzegovina which is an Au Austrian Austria trian I connect T Vc Vi- Vi province pro an and which road would really i c enna na with which is the chief Turkish pOl port S on the Aegean sea t. t This announcement caused Russia to immediately give gi notice that should the sultan grant the proposed L railway then Russia would demand a concession concession con con- cession to build a railroad across the mountains from fromI L I the Danube to o the Adriatic This is enough to set ad nil ui l Europe speculating and is js an undertone ne of ol war talk the theor theory bc being n that both poth proposals are arc political and not commercial How much 1 truth ruth there is in that belief belic of or course cours course we wc have hH no means of knowing but iVis it clear that thai both those roads arc needed to develop and civilize those regions They Ther hac not been of much use to Ic the world for years ears and have havo advanced ver verI very I I lit little littlee tt The They need railroads telegraphs telegraph telephones telephone I i f and schoolhouses The jealousy of the great na nations nations nations n-a- n has kept Turkey an empire with all its abuses abuse for scores of years ears It is the fear Lear of Russia that ha has enabled Turkey in Europe under the protection o of r the other powers to tc survive A A. glance at the map mar 1 shows that until untiE Russia ca call have full freedom to nay nav- the thc her southern commerce nina must t Vib bo crippled In her last war with Turkey sh she would woul voul l I lI I have driven Turkey out of Europe and secured he her t right of or way through the but western westeri I Europe and Great Britain interposed and stole stoic from I her the fruits of her hel victory But Russia never rc- rc I a a. cherished project She will yet ret have her ler wa way in southern Europe and what she is doing in western Siberia and northern Manchuria ought to toi 1 i 1 he be a serious notice to Japan to cc see see that her walls be strong trong When one thinks what might be in those southeastern states of Europe with their wonderful so soil l and mild climate could progress be awakened tl there re and a hope kin kindled led in th the breasts of the people people peo peo- pIe it seems a a. a profound pity pitr that because of the thc jealousy of some sonic nations which have haye no legitimate interest est in those states thc they should be held back generation generatIOn gen gen- cration after generation The avarice of kings is isone isone one of the worlds world's great sorrows |