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Constantinople Oct 27 - 1894

My dear Wife,
Your letter of the 10th inst has just
been read, and it gratifies me to know though cotton
seems to be at a bankrupt price, you at least stay well.
Mills' fears of a revolution down on him you know, about
6 years after I first told him it was indicated. We
may reason about it as we will, present conditions have
come from the perversion of the powers of Government, that
have enabled corporations and trusts to absorb all the
wealth of the country -- and the result is, "dangerous
to Civil Liberty"; as you and know I told them it would
be ten years ago at the University of Missouri, before
any "populist party was formed. Like Mills, I fear the future.
Such things come like a Cyclone, the prudent are caught
wide awake, and in some measure prepared; the
heeedless and over-confident, are amazed, and gen=
erally unprepared and ruined.

Your advice about expenses here is good, and I
am doing my best - but the American people here I felt
anxious to treat right, and so had to feed them --