Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — TURK CLIMBS DOWN [ARTICLE]

TURK CLIMBS DOWN

"Davy Crockdtf’ Doesn’t Have to Shoot to Bag That Oriental Bad Bird. OUR DEMANDS ARE [.SATISFIED Hereafter We Have the Same Rights as the Moat Favored Nation, Perhaps. Constantinople, Aug. 10. —After prolonged pour parlers and considerable haggling on the part of the Turks a satisfactory solution of the United Statesan school question has been arrived at This matter, which Is the most important of the United States demands, was settled by extending to United Statesan schools the same treatment as that accorded to schools ’under the protection of other powers. A setlement of other matters affecting United States interests In Turkey, of secondary importance, has also been effected, and Minister Lelshman has telegraphed to Rear Admiral Jewell, In command of the United States squadron sent to Smyrna, instructing him to aalute the batteries on land and dfr part. Delay Caused by Functionaries. The sitting of the council of ministers at which the settlement was agreed upon was a long one, and it was not until near its close that an agreement was reached. The delay In the settlement is believed to have been caused by the interventtlon of the palace functionaries, whose policy, in or/ler’to retain the sultan’s favor, consists of combating the rights and privileges of foreign subjects. Cause of the Controversy. Washington, Aug. 15. A prominent official of the department of state makes a statement of the questions with Turkey that have taken so long to adjust, in which it is said that for many years the treatment of educational establishments in the Ottoman empire founded and conducted by United States citizens, has been very unsatisfactory. While similar schools under the direction of other foreigners have been recognized as existing, and have been accorded the regular license, or imperial firman, upon application therefor, applications on behalf of the schools under United Statesan control have passed unnoticed. One of Our Claims. This discrimination was especially noticeable with regard to the Protestant medical college at Beirut in the matter of examinations and the right of graduates to exercise their profession. The United States government claimed for the United Statesan school the same privileges accorded the French medical school at Beirut. President Takes a Hand. The earnest efforts of the United States minister at Constantinople to secure for our schools and teachers simple equality of treatment having met with evasive and dilatory treatment by the Sublime Porte, and no progress having been made toward a better understanding thepresident took the matter in hand, and it has taken him since Feb. 2. 1903, to bring the matter to a head, and it was not so brought until our fleet in the Mediterranean sea was ordered to Smyrna, the nearest Turkish port on the Mediterranean to Constantinople.