PLOTS PLOTTED AGAINST PLOTTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 115, 12 June 1909, Page 4

PLOTS PLOTTED AGAINST PLOTTERS.

Thi.il the plotters wl vcitlncw the ancient Turkish despotism last summer should ]r.iv«f been in their turn plotted against and overthrown, was nnlv what was to have been expected, 'llaidiy ever, in all hi-ton, bus a sii'.ci.ssful plot been engineered without breeding it-si-ijuel in the shape of u more or less' successful counterplot. Thus, the -lied Terror" of the liisi l-'reneli devolution, -when the "aristocrats" were lira.-.-acred in tlieir thouviuds, ira. fiillmveil by the "White Terror." when an almost equally dreadful vengeance was wreaked upon the revolutionist, by the representatives of tliur former victims.

In IS7I, again, the Communists were ousted from Park by a counterplot, Uiftcr Kiev had laid 'half tin; city in ruins, a crime -whii-li was avenged by the execution of .10.1)1)1} of tliein. t'ROMWELI, WENT 'RIO l-'AR. The Young Turks call l-invcr llev the J -Turkish Cromwell." They might do well to bear iu ■niincl (hat even" Cromwell went too far in advance of .public opinion. >o Unit, after ;l few year.-' experience of the rigor of his nil-. Kngiishnien were only too glad to exchange it for that of t'iie Ktuiirt,, ll'.iey had previously exiled. Ilub'it and use r-c.iint for iiiucli. People can get accustomed to despotism. When .V.isaniollo. the Neapolitan 'li-hcrman, [leaded a successful revolt ■ ■• , I lie tyranny of the Spanish ■>■! . i . the

citizens of .\a.|ile.s proi-laiined him as something' onlv little less than a god. and actually made him llieir king, "lie reigned fir precisely .-even £ i y-. A the end of r'.iat time the very people if hid fought for revolted against him. murdered him. .iii.l Hung his bodv into r ditch. iVrN'IMIKT) BV TOUT! HI-.. When I'etcr the fliv.it of Russia was ivorkiiiL' in Deptford dockwird, news was brought to him that 'the Strelitz (royal bodygnardl hid revolted -.rad deposed him from his kingdom. Hut Peter was not a bit alarmed, '•f.ea.ve them alone." lie told the messenger; "'inv )icOple will soon tire of tiliem."' And .tlicv did. A counterplot was liakhed .against them: and when the T-.:;r reiur-ied. it only remainetl for him to pitnUh. which he did with cliaraclcr-i-lic thorniigliiii-»-- lorluring and JicImmiHul' some two thousand of Uiem.— P-ar-on's Weekly.