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A RAILROAD TO BAGDAD.
Half a dozen schemes to connect
Europe and Central Asia by railroad
have been matured, but the jealous
Turkish government has always stood
in the way. It has had a dread of
European civilization and enterprise
which for two centuries have been
slowly pushing the 7'urk back to the
narrow straits, and will eventually
thrust him across them. In his wide
domains in Asia, shut off from mod
ern thought, with people poor but
fanatical, the Sultan has found his
chief power of resistance—the mate
rial for his armies. It is not remark
able, therefore, that the building of
railroads in this region should have
been prevented by a government al.
ways averse to change, and whose
existence in its present form depends
upon its power to resist the encroach
ments of European ideas.
But the exclusion of railways and
other modern methods has its disad
vantages. The region has been re
duced to utmost poverty, and there
fore the taxes yield but a small rev
enue: at . a time when the ,•
with which troops may be transferred
from one held of action to another is
almost as necessary to successful war
fare as their number, raped concen
tration is impossible because of the
lack of modern means of transporta¬
tion.
The hope of improving fiib condi
tion of the country and the necessity
of acquiring the means of bringing
all the forces of the empire r to the
front quickly . in of need
case seems
to have overcome to some extent the
reluctance of the Turkish government
to permit the people of its Asiatic
provinces c from coming into . contact
with European civilization. It is
now reported that a concession has
been granted an English company to
connect Constantinople by a direct
railroad line with Bagdad near the
head of the Persian GtWl f the seat of
the Caliphs when the * “Arabian
Knights” was written.
It the enterprise shall be carried
out, nowhere in the world will the
contrast between the old and the new
be so vividly presented, and a coun¬
try will be brought back into the ev
ry-day world that for us has only ex¬
isted in books. One of the stations
on the new road will be Damascus,
one of the oldest of cities. Ctesiphon
will be another, the heart of the Per¬
sian empire when it was greatest.
The road will in part follow the track
along which Alexander led his victo¬
rious Greeks from Issus, and the
path of Xenophon’s ten thousand, re
treating from a no less complete de
feat. The ruins of Nineveh, too, will
be in sight f rom the car windows, the
Euphrates will . be crossed, and almost
every stopping place will have a name
written large in history.
Perhaps the construction of no rail
road has meant more than will the
completion of that now projected.
In the region which it will penetrate
civilization reached a comparatively
high pitch, wealth abounded and great
empires flourished when what is now
the civilized world was enveloped in
the densest barbarism--when much
of Europe was an uncleared forest,
But its civihzation, wealth and pros
perity were burned away in the fire
j of dynastic and religious wars, and
under the influence of a benumbing
religion the country has steadily fall
on back, while the rest of the wor’d
has advanced.
It will be interesting to study the
effect of bringing the old and the new
together. It is not possible that in
the centuries to come the pendulum
of power may again swing to the
southern side of the Bosphorus. ~-Ma
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