The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-04


without such a reward the soldiers would
not fight There is this further horrioie
feature TO be considered, the fact that in
Asiatic practice no discrimination is made
between the innocent and the guilty OF d
rebellious province. between the combltants
and the non-combatantS OF an enemy
country. In oriental logic, head Is a head.
whether of man, woman or child. ard
when body of troops is moved into in
surgent district or a conquering army in
vadeS the territory of enemy, in
discriminate butchery follows. in which all
are not done out of revenge, for the sol
diery have no private vengeance to wreak
IS G oIdbIooded cruelty that enjoys o' the
sight of blood, that IS willing TO kill all
alike, purely for the sake of Slaughter; 1t
is a fiendish feeling, but one so prevalent
in the Orient that it may be called charac-
ter1stic of the ASiatic.
GENGHIS KHAN.
Genghis Khan is said to have been born
with his right hand full of blood, and,
pleased with the sign his father encouraged
him in an inherited passion for war and
slaughter that made his career of the
bloodiest ever known. From 1l74. at which
date, aged fourteen, he succeeded his father
chief of Tartar tribe, until 1927, the
year Of his death. his history is but one
dreary round of massacres. He founded a
State that probably covered more territory
than had been acquired by any previous
monarch, for his dominions extended from
Hungary and Poland, in Europe, across Asia
to the Pacific ocean, comprising the whole
Of what is now known as Southern Russia,
the Himalayas, and nearly the whole of
China. This immense territory was acquired
by means of the most savage warfare, gen.
orally undertaken without provocation, and
carried on in a style of which the American
Indians would have been ashamed. When
which had committed the objectionable Of
tense OF not having submitted to him., he
it. No excuse, was needed for the war; none
was proffered. The first intimaliol the un-
fortunates had of his hostile intentions was
the onslaught of the savage horsemen,
whose charge was irresistible. Cities were
destroyed, towns and villages were burned,
fiocks and herds were driven off,, and one
indscriminate massacre was made of the
entire population His boast was that he
never left enemies behind him. and the
wherever he moved desert, smoking ruins
and dead bodies of the former population
marked his course.
His first expedition was undertaken when
only fourteen years old against some neigh
boring chiefs who. had not been subject to
to add to his own. Finding their force
unequal to the contest, they submitted un-
ng this he Caused s Of he e be
placed in kettles of cold water. which was
gradually heated until they We're boiled to
death. During his expedition against China
he captured and destroyed ninety-six cities
and over 1900 towns and villages. the total
said that 1900, 600 people persisted during
this foray; It was soon followed by a sec
o.. in which HIGH Picking was taken by storm;
and burned. In the west he was equally
successful, and when he marched through
south Russia he made boast that for six
hundred miles he did not leave house
standing nor a living inhabitant. Box
heart Of Asia opposed him in vain and were
destroyed with their inhabitants An East
ern historian, carefully collatng the various
nf no h11fa ysfn Of ~
monster, calculates that at the very least
over 100000 of the human race persisted
warfare, but in a slaughter that was de-
Hberately planned and carried out. Intoxi-
Gated with his success. he planned the con-
Great, was thwarted in attempt ON India
and died while making preparations to re-
new it,
TAMERLANE.
A hundred years later this demon in hui
man form was succeeded by another quite
as ferocious. Words are lacking to describe
the atrocities perpetrated by this Tartar
conqueror, who, like Genghis, left g. desert
| wherever he went. Born the son of a Tur-
conan chief, he died the ruler of over one
| half of Asia. His ambition was to obtain
| the control of the countries once ruled by
| Genghis Khan and had he lived little
| longer he would probably have succeeded
| His methods were similar only to the
| cruelty of Genghis he added the refinement
| of erecting CHASTITY memorials of the mas
| sacres perpetrated at his command In In
Ola over 10000 men surrendered in body
| under promise that their lives would be-
| spared. AS soon as their weapons had beer
| taken away, and they were totally defense
less, all were massacred. At Bagdad a tiff
| ling revolt broke out, and he made tina
| fact an excuse for marching against the
| city. Its Inhabitants knowing his charac
| ter, refused to surrender, even with his
| promise of safety; the place was taken b,
storm. After the horrid butchery and pill
bodies to be placed in pile in the publ,
square, and d monument of ninety thou
| sand corDses was raised to the -honor O.
| the expedition. At Damascus, after the cit,
had been taken by storm, he ordered al
the heads of the slain to be piled in a pyra
mid. and seventy thousand human head
| in one pile constituted the most ghastl,
memorial to the glory of monarch tina
the world ever saw. After conquering Indi;
| as far as the Ganges and extending hi
domains to the Mediterranean and tn
Dardanelles, he planned to repeat the Chi
| nese conquests of Genghis, but died on hi
| way to China, his army scattered, and
| few years later his mighty empire had dis
solved into it's original constituent states
Over three and half millions of men per
The annalists of Western Asia preserv
many details of the daily lives of thes
lions. in small as well as great matters
were inspired by a genuine taste 70
no need for them to be Sc SO; When Glen cieme NC
would have better suited their purpose
| when cruelty was contrary to their inter
ests. Genghis Khan, for instance, one
! had an argument with painter who ha
| brought him a picture. 1t was a work O
art suited to his TASTE being a picture O
a pile of bloody heads Genghis insiste
| that the drawing not true to life
that the sinews and tendons of the nee
| did not appear as in the picture, and
convince the painter that he was in erro
sent out a guard beheaded a slave an
had the head brought in to prove tn
truth of his assertion. Tamerlane mad
| a feast for his friends. If such man coul
be said to have friends, at Bagdad afte
the city had been taken. The table wa
set in a pavilion open OH one side and fo
| the diversion of the guests a large numbe
of captives, spared for the purpose, WEI
brought near and hacked to pieces befol
their eyes. Warming to the sport, Tamel
lane himself, toward the end of the Ell
tertainment, called for his saber, and tt
guests were delighted with the dexterit
with which he could lop off an arm or CT
off head with one blow. On another occ;
gion in Turkestan, the army suffert
reached, and a supply was demanded
the inhabitants They had none, and e
planned that the troops who had gone b
fore had used 1t all. This was no excus
and SO, although these people were h
own subjects, and almost of his own XII
bred, Tamerlane ordered their eyes to
cut out. This was done. Every man in Il
| village had his eyeballs extracted with &
point of saber, and was then hidden
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