NOTES ON THE CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 15174, 3 May 1913, Page 1

NOTES ON THE CABLES.

hfu Pish tin, the Federal Prime Minister

is not the only miner who has risen from the pit to the highest pinnacle by way of politics. There is a gentleman named Scaddan, the Premier ot the West Australian Government, who fj* f m o- And mighty proud he is .of the fact. Why it is not hard to guess, although there are some men who would not have cared to pay the necessary P, IC6 ' r, Mr Scaddan rushed through London, and while there he sat down to lunch with the Colonial Secretary, an-earl, a baronet or two, and several by the company, Mr vScaddan became reminiscent. In nine we say smiT nfn be had risen from the position of gold miner to Prime Minister (of SSt of U rf dla —P o P^ ion less thin . Ttw > be said, was a dmonstration of the opportunities presented to- those of EnglST birth Tn fee States of Australia. Well, it all depends P“P? are P°f s ibly those who thiilh Mr mu ? h b€tter work as a 13 a legislator. Then he told his still smiling (politely) hearers.Australia, were loyal, to British Empire because they knew Tf e de P endent on fee there were some present fiP fl + ? Qr open up amTswallow them when they heard this. A dav - a^ r t;he Sal ? e infatuated traveller “SPS" m lhe <=»«■

Miner to Premier.

, . Lord Roberts ought to do before asking men to accept national service is to carry out a campaign for . the workers the full share g in the fr Jft , a K d the wealt b of the connSlh S? 1 th “ y , are entitled.' In Australia we can make the country what 13 to L be worth living m it will be worth, defending. This proved too'much for Sir George Reid annual dinner of the London ES th : t fi tbf n ’ r Said he cou3d SL mn , smarts were accurately desire fWr yieklln S to mno * I a such a view was not oppoL to S^ ha tt hiaeeU IctS alorfrr* «. rental, 324^500 Comrade Scaddan! Ueil done >

■ * *■ ♦ We. are glad Mr Biyan is in office, bePJMIftA h.e» T 3 .

cause he will have now what, a has not yet had'—a sense of re.t i , , sponsibility. We do not thftwt al T ng Bl ' yaa ifwe when hk rr a t r' 6 m DIS Political career wiien his silver tongue would have been S V r y» rt «' cansc. i here never was, perhaps, an emihtiG > D who has so much Mr Bry a n-if he wante Erit I i , What be once said about ® yonld make awkward read.ng for the Ur-;? Secretary of Slate M Oj R y ’ thero , '- > no Deed hunt P k„ Mr ; Bry r a^- tOQk lt all bacb after he had been to As a freelance-the most' brilliant of his generation, and always like Bayard, above suspicion or reproach—he was an anti-imperialist, an anti-expansionist, a free silveiist; and he has been eeen on r platform that was a S I " Pna Hay-Paunoefote Treaty, while on the Panama Canal Bill he' declared for me free admission of American coastwise snipping. But he has no qualms about the greatness, moral and political, of his own countrymen. The rest of the world is, relatively, m a sore plight. Asked bv a reporter what .were his opinions on foreign affairs, he referred the questioner to a 12-yeprs-old speech. The speech was duly turned up, and- the following exceri.t proudly reproduced Behold a Hepublic standing erect while Empiies all around 'a le bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments, a Republic whose flag is loved while other flags arc only feared! Behold a Republic increasing in population, wealth, strength,. and influence, solving the problems of civilisation, .hastening the coming of universal brotherhood, a Republic which shakes thrones, alld dissolves aristocracies by its silent example, and gives light and inspiration to those who sit in darkness. Behold a Republic gradually but surely becoming the supreme moral factor in the world s progress and the accepted arbiter of the world’s disputes; a Republic whose history, like the path of the just, is as the shining light that shinetii more and more unto .the perfect day. Please do not doubt Mr Bryan’s sincerity. He, means every word of it, and it is as tonisiung what men can and do believe once they become obsessed by some particular mental heresy.

Mr Bryan in Evidence.

Thu ' sins of editors (from the aggrieved correspondents’ stand-

Editors and the courts.

point) are many, and it has long since become a,.truism that anyone can run a paper. Occasionally an editor gets his deserts—he is sent to gaol. Bismarck, it may be recalled, said that hanging a few of them was the safest and surest way.' It • is, therefore, somewhat strange, in view of this unanimity of sentiment, that when an editor is really and truly, as the children say, put in prison everyone should take the trouble to want to get him out. Yet this is what they did at Port Darwin, .where an editor fell foul of the Court, and the people wanted him so badly that they put.their hands in their pockets, and paid the fine he wouldn’t pay, to get him. back. A similar story comes from Rangoon. There an editor was imprisoned, and fined as well, for daring to expose a scandal, of which the last possibly has not been heard. The editor’s name is Mr Charming Arnold, and on his release from gaol on February 18 last a public reception organised on his behalf was attended by so large a number of people that it had to be held out of doors in Fytche square. Mr Arnold was received with vociferous cheering, and aftet being garlanded,, presented with bouquets, and pelted with rose petals, responded to calls for a speech. His first sentence to. the excited throng filling the square was: “Be always loyal "to the British Eaj.” It was not possible, he said, to get a more, humane Government in any part of the- world. He had written what he had written simply for the fur-therance-qf justice, the pure and unadulterated justice of which the British nation was justly proud.. Then there were more cheering and more enthusiasm, and only those who did not sympathise with the “ criminal editor ” felt worried and upset. « « «

How many read the few lines of a, -Com

Feaps of Another Adana.

stantinople message stating that uneasiness prevailed in Armenian circles‘at Adana, ■ where ■similar signs to those ■ immediately, preceding the massacres of 1909 bad been observed ? And how marry know or have heard of that heart-sickening outburst of inhuman slaughter? Strangely enough, it was only a few weeks since that a correspondent- of

the London ‘ Times ’ gave th© true story of this horror to the world. It is so characteristically Turkish, or what the majority regard as such, that a few sentences from his message will suffice : Agop Effendi Babikian, Deputy for Rodosto, was chosen by the Young Turk majority in, the Turkish Chamber, against the wishes of many Armenians who-con-sidered him too Turcophil to be an impartial witness, to accompany Yusuf Kemal, a Turkish Deputy, to Adana, and there to investigate the massacres on behalf of the Chamber of Deputies. He left for Adana with Yusuf Kemal, and on his return showed his draft report to a number of Deputies belonging to the Younv Turk party. Two days later he died very suddenly. His report was not published, on the plea that his premature death had prevented him from putting the finishing touches to it. But the draft, unlike its owner, did not die “suddenly,” and some Armenians have now printed it for private circulation! Here, in part, is what it says : In the introduction to his report Agop Effendi notes that the greater part of ■ his life had been spent amid political disturbances; He had witnessed the Bulgarian rising of 1876, the Bosnian insurrection, the massacres at Constantinople in 1886, and those in. the Kirk Kilisse district in 1903 ; but, he writes ; “ I never eaw nor could I have imagined horrors such as those that were committed at Adana.” In the Hamid ian massacres women, children, and invalids were usually untouched, and bounds were set to arson and pillage. He proved by a series of ghastly incidents which cam© before his notice, but wliich it would be unfair to the Turks to quote at the present juncture, that non© of the Hamidiau rules were observed in 1909. Armenians of the Gregorian rite were not the only victims, nearly 700 Arabicspeaking Syrians and Chalde ns, ever 800 Armenian Protestants and Catholics, and about 200 Greeks were among the slain, “In a. word, a tempest of savagery passed over the entire region, and its effects were such as to appal the stoutest heart.” The total cost in lives, w© may add, is said to have been 20,000.