This Turkish inefficiency has had a two-fold effect, which should not appear in the German case.

Through administrative abuses intended to serve the personal advantage of the irresponsible officials, the underlying peoples have suffered a progressive exhaustion and dilapidation; whereby the central authority, the dynastic establishment, has also grown progressively, cumulatively weaker and therefore less able to control its agents; and, in the second place, on the same grounds, in the pursuit of personal gain, and prompted by personal animosities, these irresponsible agents have persistently carried their measures of extortion beyond reasonable bounds,--that is to say beyond the bounds which a well considered plan of permanent usufruct would countenance.

All this would be otherwise and more sensibly arranged under German Imperial auspices.
One of the nations that have fallen under Turkish rule--and Turkish peace--affords a valuable illustration of a secondary point that is to be considered in connection with any plan of peace by submission.

The Armenian people have in later time come partly under Russian dominion, and so have been exposed to the Russian system of bureaucratic exploitation; and the difference between Russian and Turkish Armenia is instructive.

According to all credible--that is unofficial--accounts, conditions are perceptibly more tolerable in Russian Armenia.