The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-17


 No answer to this day has been given to the question: Tn what lay the secret of Mohammedanism' suceess?" No answer has been given to the quea- ton What was Mahommed?" Prob ably because no simple answer can be given, Mohammed undoubtedly was | subject to eplleptic fits which wrought upon his poetic imagination to his hon. est self deception. At Medina the op- portunity came to him which came to Lucifer in heaven to Jesus on earth to reign by force, Lucifer and Mohammed yielded. The shrewd strokes of a mind | understanding the passions of human | nature follow the summons to plunder and lust the promise of instant para disc to him who falls in battle for the faith. For the rest is welded the Arab ian people already full to the running over with lyric fire compressed for hun | dres of years into one compact brother hood and hurled them on the world.
 Finally note this that it is this Arab ian Mc'hammedanism about which clus- ters all the romance with which you are so familiar. It is this Arabian Mo- hammedanism that built the Alhambra, | this Arabian Mohammedanism that studied the arts and sciences, and that after their inundations were over be- came the prisoners of civilization. The Arabian Mohammedanism that in the economy of divine providence appears as the last terrible rebuke to idolatry, the apostle of the second command ment The Turk has not yet appeared on the horizon.
 l The origin of the Turk is buried in absolute obscurity. The Biblical eX- traction of other races science finds no l call to question; they are easily traced to Shem, Ham and Japheth; the ances- try of Jew, Negro and Englishman is clear Roman Greek and Persian, Indo German Semitic and Aethiopic The Bible is indeed the best authority on race extraction, but the Bible knows nothing of the Turk nor of his race, We call it Mongolian and do not know whence he comes, in all probability an- tfdiluvian, possibly even aside from the Adamic descent. Of this race are the Tartars, the Chinese, i. e., the dominant race in China also in India, the modern Turks and almost beyond dispute the American Indians. Their own tradi- tions say that their ancestor was suckled by a wolf whom he afterward married and their children were the Turks, This tradition if not literally true is certainly an inspired allegory for through all his history he has ap- peared not as an inhuman creature but a non-human creature even three-quar- ters beast At an equal distance from the Caspian, the Bengal, Chinese and Northern seas there rises the center and summit of Asia, the girdle of the world, the Golden Mts., the Altai, still the largest and the best iron mines in the world. This same sixth century there toiled on the sides of these hills as min- CTS and blacksmiths the most despised portion of the slaves of the great Khan of Geougen. These were the Turks, the family which 400 years later owned the largest empire ever constructed on this earth. The transformation was simple, they just learned to use the weapons they made for their masters against their masters. Two lessons big as the whole page of history are taught right there, if you despise and neglect any race though they be 10000 miles away they will ruin you, and right here As is the result of any struggle between labor and capital taught ultimately the overwhelming power must reside with the productive workman. Every revo- lution that has ever been on earth has been the victory of the man that has the hands and can make the tool.
 What the result would have been if this race, as they rose to freedom, then to power. could have been met by Chris tianity it is impossible to say; by whose neglect it was that they were not so met it is easy enough to say, it was lazy luxurious, quarrelling Xesdonis that had forgotten the last command of their Lord. What they were met by was Mohammedanism, easily convert ed to it, and the combination of wild man and fanatic, beast and sensualist, northern strength and southern fire, natural courage and faith in paradise was such an unbreeding of hell as only its own vices could ever have destroyed. Nothing merely human and rational could ever have stood against it.
 The Turks made their first entrance into Mohammedan territory as the hired or bought soldiers of the rich and ease loving Arabian cailiphs of fabled and magnificent Bagdad. And in 105S the son of Seljenk (Tognel Beg) leader of one of the small Turkish tribes, cap- tured Bagdad itself. And he and his successors extended their authority over Palestine Syria and Asia Minor. The Seljenk dynasty as they in turn declin- ed under the influence of wealth and sensualism gave place to a fresh tribe, the Ottoman Turks, who took up the work of conquest with fresh zeal, both for the Mohammedan faith and for plunder.
 Meantime through all these centuries kof Arab and Turk foundations remem- Der that the eastern Roman empire re- mains unbroken in the fair capitol city of Constantine, the queen of the Bos- phorus. Province after province has been Topped away, the gigantic effort of the crusades has spent itself in vain, Christianity has become a foul thing, and Turk has even crossed above and below, Greece, Thessaly, Wallachia Bull garia and the Crmea were all in his hands, but still the coveted city stood, and a half united Christendom might still have prevented the long, dreary chapter of horrors known as Turkey in Europe But Christianity was not unit 1 ed thn western Christians did not care