The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-11

have been fair types of their race, what has
CIVILIZATION done in turning one of the Mohi-
cans into the thieving vagabond that infests
our Western frontier? It is true that the
races not of the Caucasian type seem to have
reached their final development long ago, and
that for many years they have been retro
grading. Some of these races are undoubtedly
doomed to extinction; but contact with higher
civilized types has almost invariably hastened
the inevitable result.
different policy has, however, been inau-
gurated; we are pursuing a more humane
course towards our Indians; England is com
mencing to see the necessity of doing more
justice to her countless subjects in the East;
she is also about to give up the "gunboat
policy in her relations with the Chinese
thanks to the efforts of one of our citizens;
Japan is feeling the effects of an enlightened
intercourse with more civilized nations
thanks again to the movement inaugurated
by our Government. Egypt for years past
has felt the invigorating effect of intercourse
with more highly developed nations; she may
thank her geographical situation for the fact
that the compulsory course of treatment has
not been insisted on in her case; the control
of the overland route to the East has been of
such great importance that no one power has
been allowed to monopolize it; her treatment
has been dictated by the mutual jealousy of
the doctors, and the same with Turkey.
An illustration in one of the late English
pictorial papers marks new era; the subject
is an immense boat load of Mohammedan pill
grims on their road to Mecca, being tOwed by
a steamer through the Suez Canal. What an
immense field of thought this subject presents
to the political philosopher The highest APP
pliances of modern skill brought to bear to
aid the descendants of the very men who for
ages were the greatest terror to the ancestors
of those who are now helping them on their
pilgrimage-the Frank helping the Turk.
What would the shade of Charles Martel that
hero who saved France from the fierce fol-
lowers of the false prophet say to this And
what effect will this have on those very pill
grims-what effect upon Egypt herself
Egypt, the very mother of civilization, rich
above all other lands in records of remote
greatness? What effect can it not fail of
having?
Fanaticism can never be subdued by force
There is no truer saying than ''The blood of
the martyrs is the seed of the Church, but
men are always most open to material argu-
ments, and none could be more convincing
than those which the Christian races are now
putting before the East Christianity to-day
certainly possesses the monopoly of power, of
intellect and of influence in the world Chris
tians are physically better off than the fol-
lowers of other sects have better houses
better food, are better paid for their work
The best argument with the heathen is to
show him the condition of Christians COM
pared to his own. 1t must be better than our
system, he naturally says, since these men
enjoy the comforts Of life in 50 much higher
degree than | do.
The Suez Canal, by showing them what
Christian enterprise can accomplish, is worth
a hundred missionaries. 1t produces respect
for the system whose followers can produce
such results; it excites their ambition by hold
ing forth to them the most tempting rewards
should they embrace the religion whose disci-
Piles rule the world. And the great enter.
prise which will mark a new era in commerce,
which will produce new developments of the
utmost Importance in the political relations OF
the world, will also be most potent agent in
the regeneration and conversion of Egypt
Asia Minor, and Turkey, and through then
will react on the vast interior regions of Africf
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