i HARI MISES a Bellefonte, Pa., February 23, 1912, The Awaking of the | | | statesmen, has thrilled the entire world with all the qualities that make a nation victorious and kee) it great; ‘bas marched irresistibly to the mastery of the far east; and is now organizing an astounding campaign of commercial triumphs, China, numerically the greatest power Older Nations. | in the world, but immemorially inert, Marvelous Wave of New National Life That Is Sweeping Around the Earth—Turkey's ; stitutes Huge Human Problem. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Constantinople.—The man who lifts his head above his own neighborhood's that's the fashion now-a- himself confronted with whole cycle of world problems. If knows how to put two and two to- @eother he precieves that the present t is what Mr. Roosevelt called his Berlin speech a “world move- t” While as individual and dis- a8 human nature and racial char- acteristics, it yet presents the same general features everywhere. Fromt and foremost is the new expression of the national spirit. ge i] ge i | | Regime Gon. & threat. i | i i ' i i i This may fairly be called the big- gest news in the world, and I have undertaken to follow (it through and Asia. While the journal- historian naturally cannot see it ly as the student of a genera- , he none the less cannot to perceive the outstanding as- of this ancient human drama is being enacted before his The theme is one calling for the arts of the poet and the dramat- ist rather than for those of a mere chronicler of the obvious or the easily ascertainable. America’s deep inter- gal agitation and mood of self-exam- ination are a case in point. An Instance From Ireland. The first time outside of North i Hh if ' | i | Francisco to Manila. The hardy and | i disjointed, and nerveless, has felt the quickening of new life, and lifts its scarred and battered head with a frown that is half a protest and half | “A wave of national self-comnscious- | from east to west, agitating Siam, up- setting sovereigns and governments | in Persia and Turkey, and gravely per- | plexing the rulers of India and Egypt. | The United States has bounded out | of her long, innocuous isolation; has | felled at a blow an ancient mentber | of the European family of nations; | has been swept by the spirit of ex pansion; has planted herself in the West Indies, and has strewn the Pa- cific with stepping-stones from San femocratic people of Norway, after | beating for !sng 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- | garians, not less virile and incompar- | ably more gifted and attractive, with | a thousand years of self-contained his- tory behind them, have in the last two decades taken long and irretraceable | strides toward the same goal of con- scious nationalism. France, barely es- | caping a military dictatorship, has | been stretched on the rack of the | Dreyfus case, amid universal anguish and abhorrence. Great Britain, ex- panding ponderously from the Cape | to Cairo, has fought and conquered | . the Boers and added their territories | 'bor question, has posed its in-| fact In the life of the giliage outside of Galway called the , where survive the purest blooded Irish stock. Everybody spoke a tongue strange to my ears, but a coster shifted his dudeen and good naturedly explained to me, “Ev- ory nation ought to have their own language you know and use that” A gimilar revival of the Gaelic may be found in parts of Scotland. Indeed old Scotia as a whole shows a rest Sveness under the Anglicisation that 48 in progress and asserts her own national character even to the extent of calling the Scottish members of Parliament sharply to account. Britain's Big Scare. Great Britain as a whole, and espe- cially England, has within the past half decade been scared into a new national self-consciousness. The sit- uation looks strangely like a case of blue funk to an outsider. John Bull has displayed something more closely akin to hysteria than he has been accused of for a long time. The na- tion has hurriedly built Dreadnoughts, organized territorial forces, reorgan- ized her army, created the Boy Scouts, and is now clamoring for an airship fleet lest Germamy should suddenly gobble her up over night. With Germany the new mood is co- extensive with the reign of Emperor William and the power of Bismarck. It is frankly avowed imperialism. Even the tourist may see that Ger- many is the most efficient nation in Europe. Its organization running down into all departments of life, and becoming objectionable paternalism in many respects, is paralleled only by the case of her pupil, Japan. Ger- many has gone in for world-dominion, commercia: if not political. i Whether the emperor dreams more who can say? The observer cannot help wondering what may be the in- spiration and significance of the Na- poleon cult which has such vogue in Germany. I have watched the em- peror as he sat for nearly four mortal hours on horseback reviewing 20,000 of his troops, and the occasion was ominous. Whatever the militarism in Ger many portends, certainly she is win. ning the commercial world, especially from Great Britain. However heart- ily Germany may be disliked abroad ~—and she seems to have few friends ~-ghe is successful in spite of ill-will. Crossing to France and Spain one evident symptoms of a new awakening there. The “laissez faire” attitude has been abandoned, and Z : gs Hi : : ied il refuse to speak ungarian. FE dif § ‘ se i: ; | I i i i } | i i i | of its transformation is recommended . have flowered and died on the soil losing &' the ruins that link the present with 3 | i | colors and creeds converge their prob- to her empire. Italy has had her | Adowa, and Greece her Domokos. | What is compendiougly called the ‘1a- | Great Britain, the governing power. From the human standpoint it is one of the great dramas in real life that ‘are more interesting than any books. After I have gone through Turkey and Persia, I am due in India. Chira’s Portentous Turnings. The giant among nations, whose awaking has long Leen a source of speculation to statesmen, philosophers and novelists, is at last unmistakably awake and girding herself for a new place in the history of the world. If her incredible bulk of more than four hundred million human beings were mess and self-assertion has passed | to be unloosed with hostile intent up- on America, Europe or Asia, the re- sult would be an unparalleled ava- lanche—a real Armageddon. Her soll holds minerals enough to upset all the calculations of the financial districts of the world. Her industrial poten tiality could turn the labor market up side down. As a military force she has possibility which one shrinks’ from contemplating. Anything is possible in the China of tomorrow, because by government ' edict, and by the impulse of the peo- ple at large, she has definitely turned her face toward the west and turned | her back upon the past that made the old China. Morever, she seems to be ' seeking the tutelage of America; and whether the youngest of the great na- tions shall become the teacher of the | | oldest is of more interest and impor- tance thgn the question of the tariff. A Great Human Drama. | Roughly sketched, the foregoing is | the field to which I have addressed myself in the present series of inves- tigations which I am now making in | Asla. Although I have spent several | months in Europe, working on the! subject, I shall confine myself to the | oldest nations, for, alongside of the | peoples of Asia, the antiquity of Europe is modern. I shall deal less with the political aspects of the case than with the human conditions which | go to make this wonderful waking a ¢7eryday man | Typical Street Scene in the New Constantinople. soluble conundrums with a growing | and menacing insistence to the peo- | ples and rulers of all countries; and incredible inventions and discoveries have revolutionized our conceptions of matter and deeply affected our daily scheme of life.” Egypt in the Lime-Light. Thanks to the assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, the case of Egypt is fair. ly familiar to the public. That a tre- mendous crisis has eome in the land cf the pharoahs, after the sleep of centuries, is now doubted by no one. The people as a whole are clamant for all the rights and prerogatives of a self-governing nation. Their emer- * gence is ome of the spectacular phe- nomena of recent history. The end | his family. of the story has not yet been written. 1 shall shortly be in Egypt to study the case on the spot. It is in Asia that this new wave of nationalism assumes the most amasz- ing proportions. Turkey, as I sitll show in my next article, has executed a volte face. There are changes un- der way there which will have un- predictable consequences to Europe. For anybody to whom life has become blase a trip to Turkey and a study as a sufficient tonic. The clviliza- tions of the past three thousand years of Turkey. The holy places of the two most potent religions of man- kind are within that empire. Most of the past may be dug up only by per- mission from Constantinople. A strange assortment of nations and lems upon the capitdl, to which Con- Tr and woman. It is altering the ba zaars of the Orient into shops for the | ‘sale of western products, and is put. ° ting American sewing machines into | the homes of the people and American | agricultural implements into their fields. In all the world there is noth- ing quite so interesting as the life and labors and hopes of men and women. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Bad One on Brown, ; Brown is a traveling man who lives . in West Philadelphia. He has a little three-year-old who has just learned to | hours, this Is about all the time he has with ! i | | Consequently, the little girl is not ag well acquainted, perhaps, as she might be with his relation to the fam- ily, although she thinks him very nice | pa” and the other persons the child knows well. 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