Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-06

the crescent and the cross. The forefath-
ers of each had doubtless been slain defend
ing the banners of one or the other They
| typited Christian Europe pitted against
infidel Africa and Asia
But all race and religious hatred was
blent in common hatred of the English
masters of Malta
To reach the sentimental reason of this
l constantly espoused the English cause
| To the Maltese captain l pointed out his
| own successful career, and reminded him
dellcately that he would have remained an
! ignorant and impoverished fisherman but
for this very English rule which he re-
sented
Isl. 81, senior" he would sadly reply;
"but l would not have had the devil of
| greed set to work in my heart. 1 am now
! more hungry for great ship than l was at
first for little felucca."
But has not the condition of your $780,
GOO fellow eountrymen Of the islands been
vastly improved2''
My fellow countrymen grieve over the
passing away of the old things they loved.
4 little higher wall to ones patch of ground,
another room or two added to ones home, a
little more tinery in ones ears or on ones
back, or little more coin clinking between
the fingers do not make peasant folk better
or happier. They cannot become like their
masters They learn only to envy them
and to be ashamed of themselves and
each other. would give my brigantine
and all, but-but Teresa and the ninas
(chlldren1," the captain would conclude
with an indescribable pathetic and loving
gesture OF protecting fondness, which in
Guided all the romping curly-heads on ship
board, Ito live in a hut by the shore and
see the red-coats no more forever"
The grief of my Tunisian fellow passen-
ger was Of a different sort, though it was
none the less real and poignant; but it was
tod u1c ht-F 81
some time the Musselman faith and folk |
will prevail and rule all lands
CHRISTIAN pillage and despoliatiou - he |
would feellngly say, "have been the real |
motive Of every so-called holy crusade and |
expedition US whom you call infidels but |
who alone worship the one true God. The !
English have profted greatest by conquest |
under cover OF pious pretense."
called his attention to the fact that,
with the exception of England's quasi oc- |
cupatlon OF Egypt to secure payment for
moneys advanced by English capitalists in
connection with the Suez canal scheme and
the recent establishment of trading post
at Cape JUDY, on the west Morocco coast,
Great Britain did not claim to possess or
mold foot of soil to which any Musselman
race had the slightest possible hereditary
right:
'IAh, but Gibraltar-Maltai
This would be uttered in passionate ex-
j
fend's.
''They were once ours, with Andaluz and
gave US the empire OF all Africa and SUI
premacy upon the Mediterranean"
surely, but only through invasion and
outchery," replied, marrying him a little.
simply Tor pillage the Berber invader,
Iarlk, TOOK Gibraltar and oYerrun Southern
spain, IN Ill; with the same purpose your
Beroer ancestors, in 79S, took possession of
ma held the Bdlearic islands, for $50 years;
md ABOUT thousand years ago you seized
md held Malta until the Normaus dispos-
'essed you. Moslem rights were not de-
)rived by your expulsion from lands where
7ou did not belong"
But our imperial Barbary is cut into
pieces. We are no more "a mighty people.
)ur temples and our treasures are goner"
lie passionately retortei
. so are Your pirates and slaves - per-
listed unfeeingly. Those are the sort of
hlngs civilization will never again toler- {
te; IL VIII never disturb an earnest and
ealous religion; but it will surely eTentu-
lily extlrpate any religion or race that de- :
rlVes the lowlest of its followers and peo-
lie. men or women, of equal Justice -
de would not dwell upon his implied con- !
rast between Christinity and Mohamedan- l
sm, but continually bewailed the English I
ossession OF Gibraltar and Malta as a men !
&c 10 al oriental supremacy, and the d. I
ect cause, or permissible cause, of the dis
lem erment and appropriation of Northern {
1r1ca oy Spain, Italy and France. He ad- Z
lifted that its development especially in a
unis, ITlpoli, and Algeria had been mar t
alous WITHIN the last quarter of century: B
lat Gibraltar and Malta in the hands of L
lie English guaranteed permanent and Il
saceful trade with all Mediterranean L
'untries BY the fleets OF the whole world; q
Id even confessed that without this very .
ugiish strsgetic supremacy in the Medi- \
rranean his own safety with his hides u
I'd wheat, N transit from Tunis TO any OF
'le noorlng port, would be extremely
,oblematic If not altogether improbable. s.
In such unusual converse with these u
range folk the voyage from Palma to Ii
alta was passed was often able to lead p;
Q momentary topic from Moors to Nal Z
Sc, and thus secured much valuable in d.
rm2tIon concerning the re 81 as well as n
e sentimental condition of the latter Two "
ry interesting facts developed through le
. apparent extraordinary hatred Of En- -
sh rulers BY the captain and Tunisian, :
q their seeming eau1 mutual affection II
: the common people Of Malta the folk 81
10 we're It's pessautry even before rs days -
chtTary under ths oi6en knights n
llta whose deeds and fens ware the r16st rs
ninous in al medieval history. s.
Cns trst was the passionate love alH1fal- :.
e have for their sterile, sun-IAked. | =,
occo-s weps Etils hamp.of rock % Fhich .,