TURKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 56, 24 July 1912, Page 5

TURKEY.

IIOW TURKEY IS MISGOVERNED. Some remarks 011 the failure of th-a' Constitutional Government in Turkey, which were recently made in the London Daily Mail by Mr. G. Ward Price, are of interest in view of. the resignation of tbc ~ Turkish Cabinet and the inability of the late Minister for War (Malimud Shevket Pasha) to maintain discipline amongst the troops sent to restore order in Albania and Macedonia. "It is a lamentable thing to have to _ say," says Mr. Price, "and a jarring dig-," appointment to all the hopes and compliments lavished on Young Constitutional Turkey three years ago, but it can no longer be denied that Parliamentary institions in Turkey are a failure. The country is simply not ready for them. That is the clear opinion which I have come to after a year's acquaintance with Turkey, starting with the Englishman's natural prejudices in favor of an elected Chamber. . . What but disorder is to be expected from such an assembly as that which rules Turkey? Almost to a man they are professional politicians, living on the £SO a month they draw aa deputies. Their sittings are orgies or clamorous intrigue of section against section, and of personal attacks upon members of the Government, which in themselves would be enough to prevent any beneficial activity on the part of the Ministry. . . . Yoked with such a Parliament, regardless of greedy enemies abroad and desperate discontent at home, no Administration, how ever well-inten-tioned, could raise Turkey from the slough of political despair into which she daily struggles deeper."