Identifier: turkhislostprovi00curt (find matches)
Title: The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Greece -- Description and travel Bulgaria -- Description and travel Serbia -- Description and travel Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Description and travel
Publisher: Chicago London : F.H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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our new possessions.We passed a law forbidding the introduction of newcapital and the organization of new enterprises todevelop the industry and material resources of Cuba,Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, because ourlegislators were afraid that somebody would derive aprofit from the application of money, energy or brains.The granting of franchises was forbidden. Austriahas taken the opposite course in Bosnia, and not onlyinvited capital and enterprise, but erected hotels inorder to entertain their representatives in a comfort-able manner and give them pleasant impressions of thecountry. When the Austrians first assumed control everythingin Bosnia was extremely primitive and old-fashioned.There were no conveniences nor comforts; no modernimprovements whatever; but filth, disorder and dis-comfort prevailed everywhere, so much so that decentpeople avoided Bosnia. The description whichFrancis Bacon applied to Turkey centuries ago wastrue of Bosnia in 1876: Without morality, without
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AN EXAMPLE OF ADMINISTRATION 297 letters, arts or sciences; a people that can scarcemeasure an acre of land or an hour of the day; baseand sluttish in building, diet and the like; and, in aword, a very reproach to human society; and yet thisnation hath made the garden of the world a wilder-ness, for it is truly said concerning the Turk—wherethe Ottomans horse sets his foot people will come upvery thin. The Austrians devised every means to induce immi-gration and capital, to encourage commerce and indus-try, and they decided to make the country attractiveto strangers and tourists, who would advertise it. Itis now pleasant to visit Bosnia. The hotels have notonly proved an attraction, but a source of profit.Amusements and pleasures of all kinds were intro-duced for the entertainment of the people, who, underTurkish rule, had been deprived of everything of thatsort. The diversions have been gratefully appre-ciated—theaters, operas, parks, museums, gardens,cafes, military bands, parad

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