The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

| Genghis Khan, the conqueror OF Asia, was
succeeded by his late son Ogotai, who no,
only consolidated his fathers empire, but cx
tended his conquests into Central Europe
"Howorth's history of the Mongols, from the
Ninth to the Nineteenth Century" suggests
the following remarks by writer in the Pal
| Pal Gazette:
"These Mongol lnvasions are incompara-
BILE either in the multitude Of their hosts, the
area over which their conquests extended, or
the permanence of the rule they established
and the changes they effected. Genghis
Khan and Timur each in their turn founded
empires. the last vestiges OF which have not
vet wholly disappeared. The Great Moguls
throne at DELHI still survived In the person of
descendant of Timur when the Indian Mu-
tiny attempted to make of the shadowy scep-
tire q real power and ralying point. Eu.
rope is at this hour held in anxiety by the
necessity of determining what is to be done
with the Turks in Enrope-a tribe OF Turco-
mans driven by the advance or GeDghls
Khan on KhOrassan into Asia Minor, there TO
become the nucleus of the Ottoman Turks.
What other enduring results may have fol-
lowed in all the intervening countries of Cen
trail and Western Asia by the conquests of
these ruthless Mongols, has only yet been
guessed at or vaguely limited. But by such
history as the one before US it is not difficult
To trace to the first cause effects which at
this day perpex the policy of modern states
and even now give us deadly war of the
races and creeds Few English scholars
however, have thought it worth while to at
tempt complete history of the Mongos and
kindred races.
at was IN Kublai Khan's reign, it will be
remembered, that China was finally conquer
ed aud incorporated with the Mongol En-
pIre, and its history forms one of the most
brilliant chapters in the annals OF Asia. He
ruled his Chinese subjects latter they had
once been subjugated, IN true Mongol fash
ION, with frightful slaughter well and wisely,
and created tor them the Grand Canal az q
memorial of the largness of his views and the
amplitude of his power. OF the Court of his
brother and predecessor, Rubruquis, Fran
ciscan monk, has left us a graphic de.
scr,piion, performing the same service for
Mangu Khan that Marco Polo rendered for
Kublai This dynasty survived for several
generations IN China before the MOngols in
their decadence were driven out and a Chm
csc ruler sat on the throne once more. One
thing is clear throughout the history of Mon,
gol conuuests and domination: that war
among the Turk, Tartar, and Mongol races,
and in regions occupied by them in Asia,
takes very different proportions and imports
quite other conditions to those which attend
European warfare. From Genghis Khan to
his latest descendant no Mongol ever held it
good policy to spare a conquered race. They
held that the 'yanquished can never he the
friends of the victors; the death of the former
is necessary, therefore, for the safety of the
latter
ain accordance with this view the inhabit-
ants of all the cities taken were, as a rule,
slaughtered without regard to age or sex
Before attacking country 1t was usual tor
Genghis to forcwarn its ruler to submit in
few stereotyped words. IF you do not sub.
nit he said, who knows what will happen
God only knows Very soon all Asia and
Europe knew only too well what would hap
pen. The author closes his life of Genghls
Khan with kind of apology which seems
to us almost as grim as the deeds OF the Mon.
gol conqu.ror. We are told His creed
was to sweep away all cities as the haunts of
slaves and of luxury, that his herds might
freely feed upon grass whose green was free
from dusty feet 1t does make one hide
ones face in terror to read that from A. d.
1911 to 1925 1850, 00D human beings perish
ed in China and Tangat alone AT the hands of
Jengs and his followers, fearful hecatomb
which haunts the memory until one fOrgets
the other features of the story. Yet, although
a Mbula TuSa was created, fresh story was
also writ upon the page. Nor must we for
get, whatever creed we hold to, that, whether
il be by pcstience or famine, or by the hands
of such as Sesostris Sennacherib, Darius,
Alexander. Cesar, Attila, Timur, Bonapartc,
and their ilk, the scourges of God seem in
evitably to recur at intervals to purge the
world of the diseased and decaying, the weak
aud the false, the WORKOUT and the blase the
fool and the knave'"