Abstract

Turkey and Greece

The efforts made by the Turkish Government to mislead public opinion in Europe and the U.S. might, properly directed, have served to justify a good opinion; and no more satisfactory evidence is needed of the utter rottenness of the whole Ottoman Empire than the systematic substitution of seeming for being, diplomats clever at lying for governors capable of justice, wholesale bribery of public men and newspapers for reformation. The Navy, likes respectable people and stations where is much entertainment, established governments, and especially those who make their seaports agreeable by little attentions and civilities, and dislikes poor and dirty people and stations where are no parties or theatres; and this especially when those people imagine that the origin and character of the U.S. give them the right to demand its sympathy and aid.