Those who try, in spite of all discouragements, to wish
the Turks well have received another shock. There was one Turkish editor who stood head and shoulders above his colleagues, Hussein- Jahid Bey, and this able and enlightened man has just been sentenced to perpetual banishment for criticizing the Angora Government. His criticism had been eminently fair ; for though with very good reason he had objected to the methods of Angora he attributed to the Government excellent intentions. He was the very reverse of a destructive or revolutionary critic. Foreigners have often said that there was hope for Turkey while men like Hussein Jahid Bey were prominent in her life. Of course, if Turkey wants to put out all the guttering lights of her civilization she must do so, but when the darkness comes she will have no friends left.
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