The Saturday evening post . undeveloped, the agricultureprimitive, industry almost nil, and corruption rife. Mis-rule and financial bankruptcy were the normal state of thecountry. The majority of the people were so poor that theywere put to it to get the next meal and had no energy leftfor politics, even if the feudal way in which they livedunder their landlords had given them an inclinationtoward constitutional reform. Yet despite these disad-vantages Persia was feeling the effect of western ideas. Afew of her people were educated, some of them in theAmerican mission schools. A few of them we
The Saturday evening post . undeveloped, the agricultureprimitive, industry almost nil, and corruption rife. Mis-rule and financial bankruptcy were the normal state of thecountry. The majority of the people were so poor that theywere put to it to get the next meal and had no energy leftfor politics, even if the feudal way in which they livedunder their landlords had given them an inclinationtoward constitutional reform. Yet despite these disad-vantages Persia was feeling the effect of western ideas. Afew of her people were educated, some of them in theAmerican mission schools. A few of them were of those who were only partially educated got ideasfrom their educated leaders. Then came the Russo-Japanese War, which exerted a profound influence uponthe Persians, as showing them what a little nation coulddo against their own bitter enemies. There was also theinfluence of the Young Turk movement. The effect of all this was the bloodless revolution bywhich Persia achieved a constitution and a Jl Persian Churn The British approved this, while theRussians disapproved. But the Brit-ish and the Russians continued theirown policies, which resulted in 1C07in the Anglo-Russian convention, de-fining two spheres of influence—theRussian, covering the whole northernhalf of Persia, the British coveringthe southeast portion, the middle ter-ritory becoming a neutral zone. Thisthe Persian Government accepted asthe price of the Anglo-Russian loan. The Shuster Incident THE Persian Constitutionalistswere not pleased with this. To addto their troubles, the new Shah,Mohammed Ali, backed by Russia,opposed the new regime with impris-onment, bloodshed, and at last openwarfare. Finally he was deposed andthe present Shah, then a child of tenor twelve years, was put on the yet the new Constitutionalistshadnt had a chance to do much forPersia. They knew that nothing couldbe accomplished until they were in asolvent condition financially. Due tothe influence of
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